BREAKING. Whitney Houston funeral live Saturday at 19:00 on Sky News, CNN International, Fox News, MSNBC, E! Entertainment and BET.

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 International (DStv 401) will be covering and broadcasting Whitney Houston's funeral on Saturday live from 19:00, titling the news channel's coverage Whitney Houston: Her Life Her Music. Piers Morgan, Soledad O'Brien and Don Lemon will be anchoring CNN International's live Whitney Houston funeral coverage.
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.

Programming note: Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN International tonight at 22:00 is a Whitney Houston tribute with Chaka Khan, Wyclef Jean.

CNN/Piers Morgan Tonight

In a hastily arranged special tribute to Whitney Houston, Piers Morgan of Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN International (DStv 401) will talk to Chaka Khan and Wyclef Jean at 22:00 (South African time) remembering Whitney Houston.

CNN International just sent me an advisory to the Piers Morgan Tonight special of tonight, as well as a rush transcript, with Chaka Khan who will be telling Piers Morgan that the decision to proceed with Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party just hours after Whitney Houston's passing was ''complete insanity''.

''I thought that was complete insanity," Chaka Khan tells Piers Morgan. "I don't know what could motivate a person, to have a party, in a building, where the person, whose life he had influenced so enormously, and whose life had been affected by her ... I don't understand how that party went on."

''I too, was an addict,'' Chaka Khan will be telling Piers Morgan. ''I will never do cocaine again, I know that. But we are sensitive, highly sensitive people, entertainers.''

''I've cried for her a lot over the years, so many times, Chaka Khan says later in the interview tonight, ''And I've - in a way, I've mourned her because I felt that she was - something was going to happen because she was - we were - she was so close to the wire.''

BREAKING. 'I Will Always Love You': Whitney Houston death on CNN International; Grammy Awards tribute, Glee song coming.

With the sudden and unexpected death of singer Whitney Houston at 48 in the Beverly Hilton Hotel where she was found, CNN International (DStv 124) has gone into immediate major coverage as the TV channel leading the charge.

E! Entertainment (DStv 124) and E! News have have not yet gone into Whitney Houston death coverage move and other channels like MTV, MTV Base and VH1 have not yet done schedule and special programming changes.

E! Entertainment's Countdown to the Red Carpet The 2012 54th Grammy Awards with Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic starting at 00:00 until 01:00 tonight will now definitely, inevitably just be dominated by one thing: talk about Whitney Houston.

A special tribute, sung by Jennifer Hudson is hastily being arranged for The 2012 54th Grammy Awards which South African viewers will be able to watch live on Channel O (DStv 320).

Meanwhile, now ironically, this coming week's episode of Glee in America, already produced and recorded, will feature the Whitney Houston song, I Will Always Love You, sung by Amber Riley.