How To Watch President Biden’s Primetime Address Thursday

Joe Biden is making his first primetime address to the nation as President of the United States on Thursday, with the remarks set to begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, meaning the broadcast networks will be breaking in to their regularly scheduled lineups to cover it.

Biden has plenty to discuss, with the main topic the one-year anniversary of the Covid pandemic this week. It comes as a massive $1.9 trillion relief package passed by Congress this week heads to his desk for signature, the vehicle for Biden’s major bet that the stimulus will help fuel an economy hobbled by the virus.

Meanwhile, he has accelerated his original goal of having enough vaccines for every American by the end of May, even as the U.S. death toll nears 530,000.

You can watch the address on Deadline here via PBS:

Here’s how the news networks plan to cover the event:

ABC

ABC News will offer special coverage beginning at 8 ET with World News Tonight anchor David Muir leading the team. Earlier this month, Muir took on the task of leading coverage of major special events and breaking news as the network phased out the title of “chief anchor” that had been given to Good Morning America co-anchor George Stephanopoulos.

CBS

CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell will lead the network’s coverage at 8 ET, joined by Margaret Brennan and Nancy Cordes. It is part of CBS News’ weeklong “The Pandemic: One Year of COVID” series across its programs to mark the anniversary. Streaming service CBSN will also carry the speech live.

Fox News Channel

The network will air Biden’s speech live at 8 ET.

MSNBC

Chris Hayes will host “All In America: The Year We Meet Again” live from the Lincoln Memorial that will include Biden’s address. Hayes will be joined by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain live on set for a one-on-one interview about the administration’s Covid-19 strategy.

NBC

NBC Nightly News’ Lester Holt and Today‘s Savannah Guthrie will anchor a primetime special report at 8 ET to cover the speech live on NBC and streaming service NBC News Now. The pair return to headline a special Dateline at 10 ET featuring interviews with Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.

PBS

PBS NewsHour will offer live coverage at 8 ET with managing editor Judy Woodruff as anchor and contributions from White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor; Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins; and The Atlantic staff writer Alexis Madrigal, co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project.

SIRIUSXM

The satellite radio network will cover the address live via The Progress channel (127) with commentary afterward from Dean Obeidallah and John Fugelsang, and the POTUS channel (124) with Brian Ross hosting and providing analysis. SiriusXM also carries the simulcasts of CNN (Channel 116) and MSNBC (Channel 118).

SPECTRUM NETWORKS

Spectrum Networks will air live network-wide coverage of the address at 8 ET and follow with Spectrum News’ political anchors and journalists providing post-address analysis and insights. It will be hosted by NY1 Political Anchor Errol Louis and include Spectrum News 1 North Carolina anchor Tim Boyum, Spectrum News 1 Texas anchor Karina Kling, Spectrum News 1 Ohio anchor Curtis Jackson, Spectrum News 1 DC Bureau Reporter Kevin Frey and Spectrum News national health reporter Erin Billups.