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WATCH ONLINE: Inauguration without TV?

Not near a TV set for Tuesday's historic presidential events? Try watching on your computer. Or in Times Square.

ABC plans to stream its broadcast coverage on the ABC News home page, beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET.

NBC will also stream inauguration coverage at MSNBC's home page, as well as an Inauguration Dashboard collecting video feeds.

CBS News coverage will be shown not only online but also live in Manhattan's Times Square on the 40-feet-wide MTV HD video screen, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET.

Fox plans Strategy Room roundtable streaming from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET, with inauguration ceremonies live online, too.

C-SPAN is touting its online Inauguration Hub as a "one stop shop" for coverage, providing a "control room" grid of live video feeds from various locations 6 a.m.-midnight ET.

Current will Twitter the inauguration from 11:30 a.m. ET, incorporating the tweets into its TV coverage, which also streams online.

Besides the broadcast networks and cable news, other TV channels are getting into the act.

TV One's 24 hours of inauguration-related coverage includes live daytime events 10 a.m.-6 p.m. ET and evening parties 10 p.m.-midnight ET, leading into a live hour wrapup at midnight ET.

Nickelodeon airs vignettes of inauguration footage starting at 8 p.m. ET on Nickelodeon, The N and Nicktoons.

Even PBS' NewsHour With Jim Lehrer has expanded its coverage to include social networking tools like Flikr, Twitter and Facebook.

Check your favorite channel's web site. They're probably getting in the game, too.

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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