CNN International (DStv 401) has become the 3rd TV channel to confirm that it will be broadcasting the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton live on 29 April, making it the 3rd channel on which South African viewers will be able to watch the globally televised event.
CNN International will do a 7 hour live Royal Wedding broadcast on 29 April seen in standard definition (SD) in South Africa starting at 09:00 until 16:00 (South African times). CNN will use 75 staffers from the London bureau working on the Royal Wedding with 50 coming over to Britain from America (125 total).
• The 7 hour live Royal Wedding broadcast will be presented by CNN International's Richard Quest and Piers Morgan, as well as other CNN correspondents with the 24 hour news channel that promises to be ''centre stage reporting on the biggest royal wedding since Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981''.
• During the lead up to the Royal Wedding on 29 April Piers Morgan will broadcast his daily interview programme Piers Morgan Tonight live from CNN's London studio on 25, 26 and 27 April at 22:00 (repeats next day at 14:00).
• Richard Quest has Royal Wedding Specials that will be broadcast on CNN International on 3, 10, 17 and 24 April.
• Anderson Cooper will also be doing his show Anderson Cooper 360 live from London from Wednesday 27 April until (and including) Friday 29 April.
''As the tension and excitement builds in the days before the Royal Wedding, CNN International intends to be a visual real-time diary of the many and varied ways that people around the world choose to mark and experience the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton," says Katherine Green, senior vice president and general manager for CNN International. "The wedding day itself will capture the imagination of millions of viewers and CNN guarantees its global audience a front row seat for every minute of the pomp and ceremony of the big day."
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