The funeral of Whitney Houston will be widely televised on Saturday, and also streamed online.

BET, Centric, CNN, E!, Headline News and MSNBC are among the networks planning to air the funeral live from the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J.

BET and Centric will have commentary from April Woodard and Lola Oguinake starting at 11:30 a.m.  CNN will have coverage from anchors Piers Morgan, Soledad O'Brien, and Don Lemon beginning at 11. CNN will also provide a digital stream for web and mobile devices from 11:30 to 2 p.m.

MSNBC and Headline News will begin coverage at 11 and E! will cover at 11:30.

Fox News Channel will also stream the funeral live on its website and they'll air updates from the service periodically between noon and 2 p.m. Anchors Uma Pemmaraju and Rick Folbaum will cover.

Also, a press release from TV One says they will air the funeral beginning at noon ET.

Note: As of Friday afternoon -- times and anchors could change.

When BET announced it would launch Centric, it said it was aiming for an older African-American audience, 25 to 54 years old, adding that perfect examples of its desired audience would be Barack and Michelle Obama.

Since then, the show has been mostly repeats; "Soul Train" episodes, "Miami Vice," "The A Team," R&B videos.

Slowly, though, it's added some original programming. The revived "Soul Train Awards" was, well, embarrassing. A reality show "Model City" didn't seem to fit the demographic.

Tonight, the channel tries again with another reality show, "Keeping Up With the Joneses," (8 p.m.), which chronicles a Houston woman as she raises her two children and tries to move her magazine from regional to national.

Multichannel News reports that Centric will launch with 45 million subscribers, and BET will handle the operations.

BET J, apparently, will be "refreshed."

Centric will feature entertainment and reality shows, but execs said, could broaden to include some news and public affairs programming.

Some of the original shows already slated include 'Model City,' a reality show about African-American models in New York; and 'Keeping Up With the Joneses,' about the adventures of a Houston-based female entrepreneur.

A story in the New York Times says that Viacom, which owns BET and MTV, is forming a new cable channel for middle-aged African-Americans, that they'll call Centric.

They'll make the formal announcement today.

It's set to debut in October, and BET execs says it's meant to complement BET by appealing to an older and more affluent audience.