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sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:43 AM Feb 2021

I'm so disappointed in the TV coverage of the impeachment trial.

I refuse to pay Comcast $15 a month to have other than broadcast news. On Monday, PBS carried the 4 hour session. Yesterday and today, it's no where.
I know how I can view it online, but many folks probably don't.
I remember when Clinton was impeached and it was televised on all stations.

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I'm so disappointed in the TV coverage of the impeachment trial. (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Feb 2021 OP
cspan online? whistler162 Feb 2021 #1
I'm at work and couldn't watch live. ZenDem Feb 2021 #2
MSNBC and CNN covered it uninterrupted (no commercials or gabbing). lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #3
Don't have CNN nor MSNBC. C-SPAN is 2021 Federal Budget sinkingfeeling Feb 2021 #7
Watch the video here: it's riveting. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #8
It's on C-SPAN 2. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #15
Don't have C-Span 2. That's my point. If one does not have sinkingfeeling Feb 2021 #17
Broadcast networks are carrying it in many areas. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #21
All three Philadelphia broadcast stations carried the afternoon session yesterday Walleye Feb 2021 #4
It looks like PBS had at least eight hours of coverage yesterday. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #5
There wasn't any live PBS coverage on any of my 5 PBS stations here. sinkingfeeling Feb 2021 #12
There are all kinds of TV and online options. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #13
yeah you will have to get some kind of dish/cable to watch it..or you can listen to msnbc via Tunein samnsara Feb 2021 #6
You can watch it live on C-SPAN on YouTube csziggy Feb 2021 #25
I've watched mostly on CBS, ABC and NBC, during the day anyway. Not sure about their evening highplainsdem Feb 2021 #9
Just checked the 6 local network affiliates I can watch, 3 in one city, 2 in another, 1 in a smaller highplainsdem Feb 2021 #22
I guess it depends on where you live and your local broadcast stations lunasun Feb 2021 #10
free on livenewsnow.com Demonaut Feb 2021 #11
Just went to YouTube and searched for links for live coverage of the trial today, since I'd seen highplainsdem Feb 2021 #14
I went to YouTube and searched for UpInArms Feb 2021 #16
. . . niyad Feb 2021 #18
Wow! Where can you get Comcast for $15 a month? Sneederbunk Feb 2021 #19
An extra $15 for News and ESPN package, on top of the $160 sinkingfeeling Feb 2021 #20
My local ABC and CBS stations ChazII Feb 2021 #23
Try You Tube mcar Feb 2021 #24
All the major broadcast stations here are running it. (Except the Fox station.) Liberal In Texas Feb 2021 #26

ZenDem

(442 posts)
2. I'm at work and couldn't watch live.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:46 AM
Feb 2021

Tried to find in online when I got home and all I could dig up was a mish mash of random videos. TBH, I only looked at a few sites, before I gave up. Had to make dinner and do some "homework".

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
3. MSNBC and CNN covered it uninterrupted (no commercials or gabbing).
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:46 AM
Feb 2021

I assume C-Span did as well - C-Span is free on most cable, isn't it?

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
7. Don't have CNN nor MSNBC. C-SPAN is 2021 Federal Budget
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:51 AM
Feb 2021

hearing. Nothing on any of the 5 PBS stations here in Central Illinois.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
17. Don't have C-Span 2. That's my point. If one does not have
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:08 PM
Feb 2021

Premium cable, or streaming, or internet, people don't know it's happening.

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)
21. Broadcast networks are carrying it in many areas.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:21 PM
Feb 2021

More than 90% of Americans have internet access.

More than 80% of Americans have a smart phone.

Many basic cable packages include several possible options.

The percentage of people who don't have cable and don't have a smart phone and don't have internet and don't have access to local or network stations with coverage is very small.

Walleye

(31,022 posts)
4. All three Philadelphia broadcast stations carried the afternoon session yesterday
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:47 AM
Feb 2021

They did not go into the evening session. I was surprised to see ABC CBS and NBC carrying it live with commentary. I only get basic cable as well. We’ll see what they do today. Oh yes and cspan

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)
13. There are all kinds of TV and online options.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:02 PM
Feb 2021

Many have been provided in this thread.

It's available on cable channels, network channels, numerous online feeds, CSPAN, etc.

samnsara

(17,622 posts)
6. yeah you will have to get some kind of dish/cable to watch it..or you can listen to msnbc via Tunein
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:49 AM
Feb 2021

...or if you have a ROKU you can watch it there..may be a little lag but not much.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
25. You can watch it live on C-SPAN on YouTube
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:21 PM
Feb 2021

Just regular YouTube, not YouTubeTV, carried C-Span live all the time.

This can be watched on a computer, or through a streaming device - I watch through my Roku.

highplainsdem

(48,976 posts)
9. I've watched mostly on CBS, ABC and NBC, during the day anyway. Not sure about their evening
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 11:53 AM
Feb 2021

coverage because I was watching CNN and MSNBC then (was channel surfing the 3 major networks during the day to see how their anchors were covering the trial).

Today's coverage hasn't started yet, but when it does I have 6 local network affiliates I can check, in 3 different cities, to see whether they're all carrying the impeachment trial.

highplainsdem

(48,976 posts)
22. Just checked the 6 local network affiliates I can watch, 3 in one city, 2 in another, 1 in a smaller
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:07 PM
Feb 2021

city (tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands of people). All 6 (2 ABC, 2 CBS, 2 NBC) are carrying the trial.

highplainsdem

(48,976 posts)
14. Just went to YouTube and searched for links for live coverage of the trial today, since I'd seen
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:04 PM
Feb 2021

similar links for the last two days.


CBSN:




C-SPAN:




PBS NewsHour:




UpInArms

(51,283 posts)
16. I went to YouTube and searched for
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:06 PM
Feb 2021

Live impeachment hearing

Had several options ...

We do not have cable and stream all our content

ChazII

(6,204 posts)
23. My local ABC and CBS stations
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:12 PM
Feb 2021

are carrying the coverage of the impeachment trial. PBS in the Phoenix area is also covering the trial.

Edited to add the information regarding PBS.

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