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In Royal Wedding Coverage, Everything but the Vows

Friday, April 8, 2005; Page C07

Royal wedding watchers will need to be up early Saturday morning to catch the hoopla surrounding the nuptials of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in England. The civil ceremony is closed to cameras but the arrival, blessing and reception are all fair game. Major broadcast network coverage is spotty but the cable news networks will go with wall-to-wall reporting.

NBC's "Saturday Today" (Channel 4, at 7 a.m.) will devote parts of its broadcast to the wedding. Campbell Brown anchors from England.

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• "Good Morning America" on ABC (Channel 7 at 7) will provide live reports with Kate Snow at the Castle Hotel across the street from the site of the ceremony.

CBS (Channel 9) will have live reports from Mark Phillips in Windsor during "The Early Show" at 7.

CNN's Anderson Cooper and Becky Anderson anchor coverage beginning at 6 a.m. from Ye Harte & Garter Hotel on Windsor High Street.

• At 6 a.m., Fox News Channel chronicles Charles and Camilla's 35-year love affair, and starting at 7, Jon Scott anchors four hours of coverage.

MSNBC's Alex Witt anchors five hours of coverage from Windsor beginning at 7 a.m. Witt will also host a one-hour prime-time special at 8 p.m. that recaps the day.

WE: Women's Entertainment will rely on BBC coverage beginning at 7 a.m. and will re-air the entire telecast at 4 p.m. At 9 p.m., CBS correspondent Mika Brzezinski anchors a one-hour prime-time wrap-up.

• BBC America will recap the day's event with an hour-long special beginning at 6 p.m., featuring BBC news footage. At 7 p.m., the network telecasts the documentary "Charles & Camilla."

• At 7 p.m., TLC telecasts "Charles & Camilla: Road to the Altar," about their 35-year relationship.

-- John Maynard


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