How TV and Radio Plan to Cover Simpson Trial

How TV and radio will cover the O.J. Simpson trial:

KCBS Channel 2, KNBC Channel 4, KTLA Channel 5, KABC Channel 7, KCAL Channel 9 and KTTV Channel 11 are all planning to broadcast the opening arguments live today. KCBS plans to simulcast opening arguments in Spanish on SAP. KFI-AM (640) will broadcast key parts of the opening arguments live.

After that:

KCBS: Trial updates hourly throughout the day starting at 9 a.m. and during the regularly scheduled noon newscast.

KNBC: Updates at the end of each hour starting just before 10 a.m. and running throughout the day. Also, a nightly program at 7:30 anchored by Paul Moyer that will sum up and analyze the day’s proceedings. The show, “O.J. Simpson: The Trial,” will also show at 8:30 nightly on CNBC.

KTLA: Live trial broadcast for the first few days. Then the station will determine if viewers are interested in continuous coverage. KTLA saw its daytime ratings improve recently when it broadcast two days of hearings detailing the rocky marriage of O.J. and Nicole Simpson.

KABC: Updates will break into regular programming “when we feel it’s necessary,” said news director Cheryl Fair. No regularly scheduled updates.

KCAL: Hourly updates throughout the day starting at 9 a.m., and during the regularly scheduled noon newscast.

KTTV: Updates when “something important happens,” said news director Jose Rios.

CNBC: Hourly updates starting at 8:30 a.m.

KMEX: Updates during important developments.

KVEA: Updates during key developments.

CNN: Gavel-to-gavel coverage starting at 9 a.m. each day. (Its entire daytime schedule shifts to later times.)

Court TV: Live coverage all day, with recaps on “Prime Time Justice,” which airs at 5 p.m. and repeats at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

E! Entertainment Television: Gavel-to-gavel coverage throughout the trial, with former news anchor and current Weight Watchers spokesperson Kathleen Sullivan at the anchor desk. Reporters, legal experts and gossip columnists will cover the trial.

Radio: KNX-AM (1070) will provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the trial. KFWB-AM (980) will broadcast the opening arguments.