{"id":234316,"date":"2010-01-26T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c4df253ef0120a812764c970b"},"modified":"2010-01-26T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:10:52","slug":"diane-sawyer-and-george-stephanopoulos-to-anchor-abc-coverage-of-the-state-of-the-union-beginning-at-9-p-m-et-on-wednesday-january-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234316","title":{"rendered":"Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos to Anchor ABC Coverage of the State of the Union Beginning at 9 P.M., ET on Wednesday, January 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Live Coverage to Include Republican Response<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;CG Omega&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"><o:p><font size=\"3\">&#0160;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABC News will broadcast&#0160;President Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union address live on Wednesday, January 27<sup>th<\/sup>. Coverage will begin at 9:00 p.m. ET and will also include the Republican response.<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">&#0160;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Diane Sawyer<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">George Stephanopoulos<\/strong> will anchor ABC\u2019s coverage from Washington, D.C. They will be joined by <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic\">Senior White House Correspondent<em> <\/em><\/span><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Jake Tapper, <\/strong><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic\">Senior Congressional Correspondent <\/span><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Jon Karl<\/strong>, and Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Martha Raddatz<\/strong>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Ms. Sawyer will&#0160;also anchor \u201cWorld News\u201d from Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. On Thursday, \u201cGood Morning America\u201d will feature morning-after reaction to the President\u2019s speech with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">George Stephanopoulos<\/strong> and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Robin Roberts<\/strong> anchoring in New York.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LAYOUT-GRID-MODE: line; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Prior to the State of the Union, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Terry Moran<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">will moderate a preview of the President\u2019s speech in a half-hour \u201cNightline Twittercast\u201d at 8:30pm ET, available on <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/nightline\">ABCNews.com\/Nightline<\/a>&#0160;and ABC News NOW. Following the speech, Mr. Moran will anchor a special edition of \u201cNightline\u201d from Washington with additional State of the Union analysis live at 11:35 p.m., ET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p><br \/>\n<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABC News Radio will provide extensive coverage of the State of the Union Address and the Republican response starting at 9:00 p.m., ET anchored by ABC News&#0160;correspondent <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Aaron Katersky<\/strong>, with ABC News White House correspondent <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Ann Compton<\/strong> and ABC News correspondent <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Vic Ratner<\/strong> on Capitol Hill. Prior to the President&#39;s address, ABC News Radio will provide a one-hour special at 8:06 p.m. ET that examines issues President Obama is expected to discuss.<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; mso-fareast-font-family: &#39;MS Mincho&#39;\">\u202a<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABCNews.com&#0160;will live stream the coverage and will provide extensive reporting from ABC\u2019s team of political correspondents in Washington, D.C.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&#0160; <\/span>ABCNews.com will partner again with Facebook Connect to provide online users a place to comment and discuss the State of the Union online while watching it live.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">Rick Klein<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">, ABC News\u2019 Senior Political Reporter and author of \u201cThe Note,\u201d along with <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Yunji de Nies<\/strong>, ABC News White House Correspondent, will anchor&#0160;ABC News NOW\u2019s live coverage of the State of the Union at 9:00 p.m., ET.&#0160; <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\"><o:p>&#0160;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;\">ABC NewsOne, the networks\u2019 affiliate news service, will provide live reports from Washington D.C. with correspondents <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Viviana Hurtado<\/strong>, <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">John Hendren<\/strong>, and <strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">T.J. Winick<\/strong>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Coverage to Include Republican Response &#0160; ABC News will broadcast&#0160;President Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union address live on Wednesday, January 27th. Coverage will begin at 9:00 p.m. ET and will also include the Republican response. &#0160; Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos will anchor ABC\u2019s coverage from Washington, D.C. They will be joined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}