Several news organizations and outlets are offering embeds that allow sites to offer live video of the highly-touted — and likely to be heavily attended — memorial service for Michael Jackson at the Staples Center in L.A. Live streaming starts at at 12:55pm ET / 9:55am PT. Here are two:
HULU
KTLA
If you want to visit other sites that offer live streaming START HERE.
Meanwhile it turns out that Michael Jackson’s casket will be taken to this big memorial service at the Staples Center in Los Angeles today, USA Today reports:
A private memorial service for Michael Jackson is underway at the Forest Lawn Cemetery Memorial Park Hall of Liberty in Hollywood Hills.
A motorcade of Escalades, Range Rovers and Bentleys carrying the Jackson family arrived at the cemetery around 8:15 a..m. PT, followed by fire trucks and a police escort.
After the family’s private ceremony at the cemetery, the singer’s casket will be taken to the Staples Center for the public service scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.
“Mr. Jackson’s remains will be going to the Staples Center. We’re not giving any details,” said Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton.
Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich and choreographer Kenny Ortega, director of Jackson’s shows that were planned for London, have been collaborating on the memorial.
“We’re approaching this very much as a service, definitely not a show,” Ehrlich said during preparations Monday at the Staples Center. “It’s obviously a remembrance and a celebration of Michael’s life. It will be done with reverence and love and respect.”
The Jackson family had a role in choosing the program’s speakers and performers. “Needless to say, they are grieving. They wanted to make sure that the tone is right.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.