TV News Networks Finalize U.S.-North Korea Summit Coverage

By A.J. Katz 

TV news anchors, correspondents, producers and camera crews are heading to Singapore this weekend to cover Tuesday’s highly-anticipated U.S.-North Korea nuclear summit.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Fox’s Chris Wallace will host their Sunday shows from Singapore in the morning, while NBC’s Lester Holt, ABC’s David Muir, CBS’s Jeff Glor, and Fox News’s Bret Baier will anchor Sunday editions of their newscasts from the Asian island nation.

Click through for a round-up of network coverage:

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ABC News

CBS News

CNN

Fox News

NBC News / MSNBC

Bloomberg TV:

Bloomberg Television will broadcast from the roof of the Fullerton Hotel, providing 24 hour coverage beginning at 6 a.m. SGT Monday, June 11/ 6 p.m. EDT Sunday, June 10. Haslinda Amin and Yvonne Man will anchor coverage, with Kevin Cirilli and Stephen Engle contributing reporting on the ground. Starting at 10:30 a.m. SGT Tuesday (Monday at 10:30 p.m. EDT), TicToc by Bloomberg will go live from Twitter’s Blue Room in Singapore for a 30-minute live show with Bloomberg reporter Jihye Lee (@TheJihyeLee) and Bloomberg TV anchor Yvonne Man (@YvonneManTV).

C-SPAN:

C-SPAN will have coverage of events (press conferences, meetings, etc.) as they happen on C-SPAN, C-SPAN.org and the C-SPAN Radio App.

Fox Biz:

Lou Dobbs will kick off the summit coverage on Monday from New York with a special two-hour live Lou Dobbs Tonight from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Neil Cavuto will  continue to provide live updates during a three-hour primetime edition of CAVUTO: Coast to Coast from 9 p.m. – 12 a.m. ET. Cavuto will be joined by FBN’s Kennedy and a number of analysts as well as a rotating panel of guests to discuss the political and economic impact of the meetings. FBN anchor Deirdre Bolton will be reporting from Singapore and will provide live updates on the meetings throughout the evening and into the morning. On, Tuesday, FBN will provide live summit updates from 12 a.m. – 3 a.m. ET. with reporting from correspondents Adam Shapiro and Susan Li. FBN:AM will continue covering the breaking international news from 3- 5 a.m. ET followed by an extended Mornings with Maria with anchor Maria Bartiromo from 5 – 9 a.m. ET.

PBS:

PBS NewsHour foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin and a team will report from Singapore Sunday through Wednesday, with anticipated updates to the weekday broadcast for later airings and breaking news live streams at pbs.org/newshour and on NewsHour’s social platforms (FacebookTwitterYouTube).

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