Whitney Houston's funeral on Saturday is set to become a global TV event with multiple news channels planning live coverage of the funeral in New Jersey which South African viewers will be able to follow on numerous news channels, as well as live streaming online and special reports.
E! Entertainment (DStv 124) will be live streaming Whitney Houston's funeral tomorrow, Saturday 18 February from 19:00 (South African time) from the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Jason Kennedy will anchor a live E! News Whitney Houston Special Report on television from 19:30 with the latest news and special reporting by E!'s chief news correspondent Ken Baker and E! senior online editor Marc Malkin.
CNN will also live stream the funeral on the CNN website.
The eNews Channel (DStv 403) hasShahan Ramkissoon in New Jersey and the South African news channel says he will be filing several stories during the course of Saturday.
Fox News Channel (TopTV 405) will be covering the Whitney Houston funeral live with Uma Pemmaraju and Jon Scott who will be anchoring live on the channel from 19:30 (South African time until 22:30 from New York. Fox News correspondent Kelly Wright will report from Newark.
Fox News will show the funeral live on the channel and will also stram it in full live on Foxnews.com.
Sky News (DStv 402) will cover the Whitney Houston funeral live from 19:00 (South African time) on Saturday.
MSNBC (TopTV 410) will cover the Whitney Houston funeral live on Saturday, also from 19:00 with Alex Witt anchoring the news channel's live coverage.
BBC World News (TopTV 400 / DStv 400) is also carrying the Whitney Houston funeral live from 19:00.
BET (TopTV 190) will cover the Whitney Houston funeral from 17:30 with a news special, Live: The Homegoing of Whitney Houston. From 19:30 BET will cover the funeral live with correspondents April Woodard and Lola Oguinnake in Newark. The funeral will be followed by a one hour special (undetermined whether it would be seen in South Africa) entitled BET Remembers Whitney.
At the funeral will be Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown; Kevin Costner; Dionne Warwick, Alicia Keys; CeCe Winans and gospel singers Kim Burrell and Donnie McClurkin.
