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The nation’s TV-news outlets have spent countless hours covering the coronavirus pandemic. On late Wednesday afternoon, for at least a little while, they will focus on something entirely different.

CBS News, NBC News and ABC News are preparing to break into regularly scheduled programming a few minutes before 4:30 p.m. eastern Wednesday in a bid to chronicle the launch of a joint mission between Nasa and entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX that will represent the first time American astronauts will take off from U.S. soil since 2011. Both Fox News Channel and MSNBC are planning to break away from regular programming at that time in order to bring viewers coverage of the spectacle. Fox News will offer Fox Broadcasting affiliates special coverage of the event at 4:25 p.m. with anchor Leland Vittert.

Some news divisions are using the launch to highlight emerging business ventures and new means of distribution.

CNN had Kathy and Anderson, and Fox news had two drunk girls, one cup and one unsuspecting journalist in the field who was F-bombed before the 2014 New Years' eve ball dropped. DListed, (via BuzzFeed) reports Fox News sent reporter Phil Keating to South Beach for man in the street interviews "without a seven-second delay." Phil refers to one of the inebriated females as a “tall drink of water,” and put the microphone in her face for this not so PC reply: “We got 5 minutes till 2014 and we’re gonna F*Ck Shit Up!” Michael K of DListed writes: "But what I want to know is, what family is watching Fox News on New Year’s Eve together?! The...