Inauguration Coverage: How Tweens, Teens & Twentysomethings Will Watch
Posted by meredith on 01-19-2009
Tomorrow millions of Obama's young supporters (voters and would-be voters alike) will be tuning in and logging on to join in the inaugural celebration of our soon-to-be 44th president. Below we've broken down some of the multimedia coverage by age group to give you a roundup of hot spots where kids, teens and twentysomethings will be catching the historic event.
Tweens
- Disney in D.C. (Starting tonight Disney/ABC will cover several family-friendly inaugural events including "Kids' Inaugural: We Are the Future," a concert that will honor military families and be attended by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden. The concert will be simulcast on Radio Disney and Disney.com) (Cynopsis Kids)
- Nickelodeon covers its first inauguration (After an impressive voter turnout for their own online election –around 2.2 million kids!– Nick decided to extend their "Kids Pick The President' coverage to the inauguration by following young reporters on the scene and airing clips and interviews between programs and during commercial breaks) (AOL News)
- Children’s PressLine sends 13 young journalists (to cover the inauguration. The not-for-profit organization that teaches journalistic skills to kids eight to 18 started their coverage on January 16th with their work running in various newspapers across the country)
- Allykatzz welcomes Malia and Sasha Obama (to the White House with a "Best Of" tween spots in D.C. based on a survey of tween girls in the area) (Allykatzz.com)
Teens
- WeeWorld.com offers a virtual celebration (where members can either attend the world's official inauguration party, or plan an event of their own. Either way, many avatars are sure to be rocking the virtual Obama memorabilia created to commemorate the date)
- ChannelOne offers a special in-school inaugural edition (for middle and high school teachers to air for their students) (Cynopsis Kids)
College Students/Twentysomethings
- MTV hosts the "Be The Change Inaugural Ball" (with ServiceNation to celebrate the record-breaking youth-voter turnout and young people's additional efforts to make an impact through positive change. The "Be the Change Inaugural Ball" will be televised live across all MTV platforms, including MTV, MTV2, MTV Tr3s, mtvU, MTV Hits, MTV Jams and MTV.com) (MTV News)
- CNN.com teams up with Facebook (with an app that will allow users to watch and live-blog err.. live-status the inauguration along with other Facebook friends) (The Hollywood Reporter)
Did we miss something? If you're site is doing something cool and youth-oriented for Obama's big day tomorrow, feel free to leave it in the comments!
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