It's normal for them to be slightly out of sync. They're all coming routed through different physical locations, different equipment, and some are on slower or faster connections.

Interesting that they all had the same feed, I would certainly expect them to have at least a couple. Would think FOX would have one, CNN, etc - maybe 3 or 4 different streams that are broadcast to their affiliate networks, or sold to other smaller networks.

Going to look back at the 2016 inauguration to see if this was also the case. Will update.

Ok - update time. It looks like for Trump's inauguration, all the networks were using the same camera feeds, but they did use different cuts between cameras, transitions, etc. For an event like this, I could see the White House providing the camera feeds, and leaving the networks up to cutting and splicing it how they wanted to. Just my thoughts.

It's normal for them to be slightly out of sync. They're all coming routed through different physical locations, different equipment, and some are on slower or faster connections.

Interesting that they all had the same feed, I would certainly expect them to have at least a couple. Would think FOX would have one, CNN, etc - maybe 3 or 4 different streams that are broadcast to their affiliate networks, or sold to other smaller networks.

Going to look back at the 2016 inauguration to see if this was also the case. Will update.