ABC airing Kobe Bryant special tonight at 10 p.m.

Former Atlantan and "Good Morning America" host Robin Roberts will join ABC News reporter Tom Rinaldi to anchor the special, which will blend updates on the accident itself with a retrospective on Bryant's career and life.

They are gathering interviews past and present from  basketball players and people that knew him.

NBA TV, in the meantime, has been airing hours of non-stop discussion of the future NBA Hall of Famer, who retired just three years ago.

Even CNN, which has been on almost non-stop impeachment news stream, has had Wolf Blitzer discussing Bryant instead. CNN interviewed him January 15 and they aired that interview during the 7 p.m. hour. (MSNBC at 7:56 p.m. was airing impeachment news while Fox News was airing a town hall with Pete Buttigieg.)

At 8 p.m., Lizzo opened the Grammy Awards with the pronouncement: "Tonight is for Kobe!"

"We're all feeling crazy sadness right now," said Alicia Keys at Staples Center in Los Angeles. "We're literally standing here heartbroken in the house that Kobe Bryant built."

She then sang a snippet of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" with Boyz II Men in his honor.