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Where to watch Obama's inauguration online? This is the most anticipated live online event of the year, and there are plenty of live online coverages of Obama's inauguration available aside from the live broadcasts that almost all television networks are carrying. This site will try to give you the best options on where to get the live online coverage of the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009.

The inaugural celebrations will officially start at 10 AM on the West Front of the Capitol Building. But I reckon that live online coverages will start even before this, especially if they are feeds from television

broadcasts which will provide commentaries and insights on the day's events and the many personalities involved. The program includes musical selections from Aretha Franklin, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill. The United States Marine Band, the San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus are also scheduled to perform while everything is being set for the oath-taking. The first speaker of the day will be Sebator Dianne Feinstein who will provide the call to order and some welcoming remarks. This will be followed by an invocation by the Rev. Rick Warren. Vice President Joe Biden's swearing in will then follow which will be done by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Seeveral musical numbers will follow this as we prepare for the oatth-taking of Barack Obama. At around noon, Obama will take the Oath of Office, using President Lincoln's Inaugural Bible, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts. This will be followed by his inaugural address.

Obama Inauguration Online Live Stream by Hulu

Hulu, with its player posted above, will provide a live online stream of the Obama inauguration using the Fox broadcast stream. Other live online broadcast are as follows (this list courtesy of newteevee.com):

2009 Obama Inauguration live online resources

CNN will be streaming the Obama inauguration on CNN Live, and it will incorporate Facebook status updates from users logged onto Facebook Connect at CNN.com. It will also feature an on-camera anchor live at the Facebook offices to report on trends and anecdotes from users’ inauguration-related activities.

ABC News will provide online coverage anchored by Sam Donaldson and Rick Klein from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET on ABCNEWS.com. It will embed coverage of Obama taking the oath of office directly on its homepage from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET.

Fox News will show its “The Strategy Room” webcast “throughout the day,” according on FOXNews.com, and it will be hosting a discussion of the day’s events on its Facebook page.

MSNBC will have live stream Obama inauguration coverage on its home page and politics.msnbc.com, and it will be embeddable onto your own site or blog.

C-SPAN will have the most extensive Obama inauguration live web coverage. It’s using Mogulus to webcast a multichannel grid of inauguration activities from Saturday through Tuesday — everything from events with the families of the President-elect and Vice President-elect to Bush departing the White House to the many inaugural balls.

The New York Times will stream Obama’s speech and swearing-in on its home page.

CBS News will be streaming its broadcast coverage from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, along with the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric at 6:30 p.m, Couric’s one-hour inauguration special at 9 p.m., and her CNET webcast, including responses to viewer questions submitted throughout the day, at 10 p.m. Go to www.cbsnews.com/inauguration.

It is expected that with these online broadcasts, as well as television coverages from hundreds of networks all over the world and some mobile phone carriers, the inauguration of Barack Obama will reach around 200 million people - the most watched presidential inauguration in history. It will already set a record for the most number of attendees of any presidential inauguration in American history as more than two million people are expected to converge in Washington, DC to witness this historic event. The current record-holder is the inauguration of Lyndon Johnson in 1965 when 1.2 million were present.