ABC News and Nat Geo will cover next month’s total solar eclipse via a live two-hour special on Monday, April 8, that will run across several Disney linear and streaming outlets. Eclipse Across America is set to be simulcast that afternoon from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET on ABC, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, Disney+ and Hulu (via the ABC News Live channel) as the eclipse travels across North America.
World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis, reporting live from Burlington, Vt., will host the special. Assisting them with information about the eclipse will be Nat Geo’s Mariana van Zeller (Trafficked) and Nat Geo Explorers photographer Cristina Mittermeier (Photographer), as well as astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi and astrophysicists Jedidah Isler and Ved Chirayath.
The live telecast will hop from location to location as the eclipse runs through different cities; the plan is a bit reminiscent of ABC News’ ABC 2000 special, which covered time-zone-by-time-zone millennium celebrations across the globe for 24 hours as 1999 turned into the year 2000.
In this case, Eclipse Across America will include live remotes from ten different North American cities as they one-by-one experience 100% totality of the eclipse. Here’s where the telecast will visit, along with the correspondents in each town:
Mazatlán, Mexico (approx. 2:07-2:11 p.m. ET): ABC News correspondent Matt Rivers
Del Rio, Texas (approx. 2:28-2:32 p.m. ET): ABC News national correspondent Mireya Villarreal and van Zeller
Dallas, Texas (approx. 2:40-2:44 p.m. ET): GMA3 co-anchors DeMarco Morgan and ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, along with a live check-in from Tafreshi at Frio Cave
Russellville, Ark. (approx. 2:51-2:54 p.m. ET): ABC News foreign correspondent Maggie Rulli with hundreds of couples at the Total Eclipse of the Heart mass wedding
Carbondale, Ill. (approx. 2:59-3:05 p.m. ET): ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee and Isler at Southern Illinois University
Indianapolis, Ind. (approx. 3:06-3:09 p.m. ET): Good Morning America weekend co-anchor Gio Benitez and Lopez at the Indy 500 Speedway
Cleveland, Ohio (approx. 3:13-3:17 p.m. ET): Good Morning America weekend co-anchor Whit Johnson at the Great Lakes Science Center
Niagara Falls, N.Y. (approx. 3:18-3:22 p.m. ET): ABC News meteorologist Rob Marciano and Mittermeier close to the Falls.
Burlington, Vt. (approx. 3:26-3:29 p.
