Earthquake coverage, or lack thereof

[Richard Chonak]

Early Monday morning there was an earthquake in Italy -- late Sunday 
evening here. It was felt in Rome and killed over 90 people in L'Aquila. 
  BBC's website had the story, but as far as I could tell, none of the 
U.S. TV news organizations bothered to break format and cover it live, 
even the 24-hour cable news channels.

What are CNN/HNN/FNC/MSNBC for, if not disaster coverage?    Yet at 
midnight Monday morning they were all running canned programs instead of 
live news.   And in two cases (FNC and HNN), they were running 
entertainment programs ("Red Eye" and "Not Just Another News Show").

Did anyone interrupt normal programming to cover this live at all?
--RC