Memorial Day Coverage

Though the actual memorial was slated to start at 11:00, it only started at 11:58, nearly an hour later with the national anthem, which seemed to have gone pair shaped at the Afrikaans part.

Natalie Allen anchored on CNN from the 9am hour (After Newsroom London). She then handed over to the trio of Anderson Cooper (CNNUS), Christiane Amanpour (CNNI) and Robin Curnow (CNN Correspondent) who covered the event for CNN US, simulcast on CNNI, our feed. What was interesting was the fact that it is just being billed as a special edition of Early Start, so at intervals John Berman in New York is covering 'other news.' What is more interesting is the fact that when that happens, CNNI quetly restores its own feed, with own graphics, anchored by Isha Sesay and Errol Barnnet outside the stadium, then silently slip back to the US feed.

On SABC Leanne Manas is co anchoring with Peter Ndoro. Surprisingly, the coverage is only on SABC News and SABC2, and not the other 2. Their coverage is also being shown on DStv's special Madiba channel 199 in an ugly aspect ratio. Over the last few days, on the DStv forum, many people were complaining of it not being shown on one of their HD channels, which is really tasteless as their is absolutely no live sport on any of the 6 HD sports channels.

On eNCA, whose coverage has been on eTV all day, we are anchored by Jeremy Maggs and Nikiwe Bikitsha anchored from their media suite (the pair used to be the NewsNight duo before Nikiwe decided to study further), with Cathy Mothlathana and Chris Maroleng from the balchony and Iman Rappetti from outside the stadium. They also have a sign language interpreter on their eTV feed. According to Patrick Conroy (Head of news) they had been planning for this since midnight last night.
(AS I TYPE: The Reuters feed just cut out at 12:32, with ALL channels forced to scramble their own cameras)

ANN7 has their primetime anchor covering from the studio, nothing special.

CNBC has coverage from their studio as well.

Nothing from BDTV, RT.

NDTV is carrying eNCA's feed, though it is obviously taken from one of their online streams (LiveStation, YoutTube, enca.com), as seen in their quality.

Al Jazeera is covering it, but only through discussion, not carrying the service live