Coverage Plans: President Obama's Afghanistan Address Tonight

President Obama will address the nation from West Point at 8pmET on his Afghanistan plans. TVNewser reported yesterday that all networks will carry Obama's primetime address. As far as we know so far, here's how the nets and cablers will cover... • CBS: Katie Couric will anchor CBS' live broadcast at 8pmET with White House correspondent Chip Reid at West Point and Bob Schieffer, Lara Logan and David Martin in DC. • ABC: Charlie Gibson will anchor ABC's live coverage. He will be joined by George Stephanopoulos, Jake Tapper, Martha Raddatz, senior foreign correspondent Jim Sciutto in Kabul and ABC News consultant Ret. General Jack Keane. Terry Moran will anchor "Nightline" from West Point beginning at 11:35pmET. Also at 8pmET, political director David Chalian and senior political reporter Rick Klein will anchor ABC News NOW's live coverage on abcnews.com. Aaron Katersky, Ann Compton and Steve Roberts will cover it on radio. • CNN: Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown and Anderson Cooper will anchor CNN's live coverage beginning at 8pmET from NY. John King, Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Candy Crowley, Michael Ware, Pentagon correspondents Chris Lawrence and Barbara Starr, foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty, and Ed Henry from the West Point, as well as senior political analysts Gloria Borger and David Gergen will contribute. A special edition of "CNN Tonight" anchored by John Roberts will air at 7pmET, "360" will air live at 10pmET and "Larry King Live" will air live at midnight. Senior international correspondent Nic Robertson and international correspondents Atia Abawi and Frederik Pleitgen will report live all night from Kabul. Correspondents Deborah Feyerick, David Mattingly and Mary Snow will report on reactions from civilians and troops at US military bases, including Ft. Hood, Ft. Bragg, 29 Palms and others. CNN Radio correspondent Bob Costantini will anchor live coverage from Washington. CNN iReport and the blog "Afghanistan Crossroads" will also have live coverage online. • MSNBC: Coverage of the President's speech on MSNBC will be followed by a special live editions of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" at 9pmET, "The Rachel Maddow Show" at 10pmET, "Hardball with Chris Matthews" at 11pmET and "The Ed Show" at 12amET. • C-SPAN: Live coverage begins at 8pmET, likely on C-SPAN2 (if Senate is done for the day), plus coverage on C-SPAN Radio and live-streaming on C-SPAN.org. We'll continue to update.

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