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NBC is going all out on the Royal Wedding.

In the lead up to the wedding Savannah and Hoda will host a primetime special on Wednesday May 16th "Inside the Royal Wedding: Harry and Meghan". This special is produced by ITN where Ian Rumsey is the executive producer.

Hoda Kotb will report live from Windsor on Thursday May 17th.

On Friday May 18th the entire team (Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Megyn Kelly and Kathie Lee Gifford) will anchor their respective hours from Windsor Castle starting at 7AM ET.

On the wedding day Saturday May 19th coverage will begin at 4:30AM and last until 11 AM. Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb will anchor from an "exclusive vantage point overlooking Windsor Castle where Prince Harry and Markle will emerge as husband and wife." Megyn Kelly, Kathy Lee Gifford, Al Roker and Sheinelle Jones will report from "prime locations". Additionally Kelly Cobiella, Rehema Ellis, Stephanie Gosk and Keir Simmons (I believe Rehema Ellis is the only one who has not been a correspondent - even for a short period of time in the London Bureau) will be located at various spots around Windsor Castle and London capturing "every facet" of the wedding. Insight and analysis will be provided by Wilfred Frost (co anchor of CNBC's Closing Bell), Zanna Roberts Bassi (a British Fashion export and senior fashion expert of Marie Claire), Andrew Roberts (a British historian), Camilla Tominey (royal editor of Sunday Express), and Ken Wharfe (Princess Diana's former body guard).

A co-host of NBC's Stay Tuned SnapChat "program" will anchor coverage from London.

I assume fellow NBCU properties - E! News and Access (Hollywood) will be live covering the wedding as well.

Reportedly the cast of Suits (a show produced by NBC and aired on their USA network) have all been invited to the wedding. She was written out of the show with it's own wedding airing on the April 25 season finale. So I expect once they get back NBC will have them on for interviews.

I have not heard anything else from the rest of the networks but I assume atleast ABC will do the same - however they are at a loss as they do not have a UK broadcast partner.

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Now I can't believe I just rewrote when I essentially could have copy and pasted a press release. I myself do not plan on waking up at 4:30 on a Saturday (no offense to the fans of the Royal family).

NBC are the people that buy royal wedding plates then... probably more bothered about it that the UK News media!

The top of Slough Power Station chimney ?

The Americans have always been fascinated by our Royal Family...possibly because they don't have one.

Don't they? Isn't it the BBC? BBC News used to air ABC World News Tonight.

The BBC have been partnered with CBS since July last year.

That partnership ended last year when the BBC and CBS signed an agreement.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/bbc-cbs-abc-sky-news-1202494555/

Well, maybe reading too much into this but: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/rhiannon-mills-weighs-royal-engagement-51403963

Given the dance going on between Sky/Sky News/Disney/ABC/Fox etc it's surely too sensitive to formally agree anything, and that report was a month before the Disney bid. But clearly they established some sort of relationship, however informal.

Could be a lot more of that to come, of course..

NBC happy to air the live at 7am ET then rather than delay it for primetime.

Because they know they will loose eyeballs to other networks if they delay it. I’d like to know if there is something in the contracts that it must air live.

Plus it’s early Saturday mornings the only thing really scheduled are for many NBC stations from 4:30-6AM are infomercials or E/I programming (locally weekend news starts at 5AM-7AM), an hour of local news, Today (depending on sports sometimes it’s 60 or 90 minutes long compared to the typical two hours), another hour of local news, and then a bunch of E/I content until 12pm.

Plus, it's a live NEWS event, as opposed to a SPORTS event, where they would want to get as many eyeballs onto it as possible. A tape-delayed news event is a waste of time.

I seem to recall last time that NBC News essentially took over the atrium of 200 Grays Inn Road. Would interesting to see if they will be back hauling their coverage to the US for production or if they’ll do it on site.

Now during the last royal wedding were ISO cameras offered or was there just one feed to all broadcasters?