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.

So how did Raleigh tech entrepreneur Wayne Sutton end up being featured in a CNN documentary? With a little help from social media, of course.

After Sutton blogged his response to an article about venture capitalists lack of interest in investing in African-American Internet businesses, a Wall Street Journal reporter took notice, leading to a mention in that publication.  Sutton posted that piece; that link caught the eye of CNN.

That, in part, Sutton helped shape his destiny makes sense; it's the way he's approach his career as an online entrepreneur and technology journalist.

And that desire to make things happen also lies behind the formation of the NewMe Accelerator, the effort that attracted CNN and reporter Soledad O'Brien to make her fourth "Black in America" documentary, "The New Promised Land -- Silicon Valley" (CNN, Sunday, 8 p.m. & 11 p.m.).

Less than one percent of all venture capital money in 2010 went to digital startups with African-American founders, according to CB Insights, an industry analyst.

For her fourth "Black in America" documentary, "The New Promised Land -- Silicon Valley"(CNN, Sunday, 8 p.m. & 11 p.m.) reporter Soledad O'Brien aims to explore why that is. She takes a look at Silicon Valley and the opportunities in the tech world, through the eyes of 8 African-Americans with Internet-based businesses looking for funding.

At least I think that's what O'Brien is exploring. Although inspiring, "The New Promised Land" isn't very insightful; often it seemed on the verge of a good story only to succumb to the need to be 'interesting' in a reality show kind of way.

Donna Williams, a Republican activist and opponent of the old diversity policy, filed today to run for the District 6 seat on the Wake County school board.

Williams is the founding president of the Northern Wake Republican Club, a group that campaigned for and backed the GOP school board majority that took office in December 2009.

Christine Kushner and George W. Morgan, both Democrats, have already filed to run for the District 6 seat.

SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST FOR HER CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT

Like a good documentary should "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" (Bio, 9 tonight) gives you a new perspective on something you probably think you know a lot about.

This time, it's the fall of the former NY governor, now a CNN host, who some thought might be the first Jewish president. Instead, he became another politician undone by not keeping his pants on.

But what you learn is that the unraveling of Spitzer's career, while assisted by his behavior, may have been orchestrated by enemies he made as the crusading attorney general of NY who took on some the most powerful executives on Wall Street.

The Wake County school system doesn't come off looking too good in a recent  CNN news report by Soledad O'Brien.

Wake is used as the example for the segment called "the return of school segregation" that aired multiple times last week on CNN. O'Brien says Wake schools were "fully integrated" under the old diversity policy and that critics of the move to neighborhood schools "worry that schools in poor neighborhoods will be neglected."

"'Neighborhood schools' means students attend school closest to where they live," O'Brien says. "A black neighborhood means a black school, a white neighborhood, a white school."

NAACP leaders Benjamin Todd Jealous and the Rev. William Barber are using a national stage to accuse the Wake County school board of trying to resegregate the schools and roll the clock back to the Jim Crow era.

In an op-ed piece Saturday for CNN, Jealous and Barber rail that "extreme right wing members" want to bring neighborhood schools to Wake County to recreate a system of separate but unequal schools. Both NAACP leaders say that they're fighting what's happening in Wake to prevent other school districts nationally from moving in the same direction.

"North Carolina could become a social justice battleground, just as Arizona has been in the immigration debate," Jealous and Barber write. "Wake County is becoming a symbol of attempts to return to the days pre-Brown v. Board of Education, just as 60 years ago, Birmingham, Alabama, woke the nation to the immoral costs of segregating our nation."

If you missed CNN's one-hour documentary on the SBI, "Rogue Justice," you have a second chance this weekend. CNN will rebroadcast "CNN Presents" on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST.

The show focuses on two stories familiar to News & Observer readers: Greg Taylor, who spent 17 years in prison before he was exonerated, and Floyd Brown, who spent 14 years locked up at Dorothea Dix before a judge ordered him freed.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Another local problem is about to get major national attention.

In a new one-hour documentary airing tonight, CNN’s Drew Griffin examines problems in the North Carolina state justice system. 

Click below for more information and for a clip from the CNN documentary, "Rogue Justice."

The big three networks -- ABC, CBS, and NBC -- will interrupt regular programming tonight to broadcast the remarks of President Obama at this evening's memorial service in Tucson.

The remarks are expected to come sometime between 8pm - 9pm and will likely last less than 10 minutes.

CBS will air repeats of "Big Bang Theory" and "Rules of Engagement" from 8 to 9 and interrupt one of those. "Live to Dance" is moved to 9pm and a new episode of "The Defenders" will air at 10pm.