Overview
- President Trump will deliver a live address, set for Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET, on all four major broadcast networks and it is slated to last about 20 minutes.
- The Masked Singer finale on Fox and a two-hour Survivor on CBS will pause at 9 p.m. ET for the speech and resume around 9:20 p.m. ET to finish by about 10:20 p.m. ET.
- Networks have reworked schedules with short notice, including Chicago Fire moving to about 9:20 p.m. ET and Chicago P.D. to 10:20 p.m. ET on NBC, CBS slotting America’s Culinary Cup from 10:20 to 11:20 p.m. ET, and ABC opting for reruns in the 9–11 p.m. ET block.
- West Coast viewers will see the address at 6 p.m. PT, which leaves primetime lineups there largely unchanged.
- The White House bills the speech as an Iran update, and Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have suggested the U.S. mission could wrap in two to three weeks as polls show strong public support for ending the fighting soon.