Don't forget that the other American hostages, and other hostages of all nationalities, are still being held in Iraq. Those people still need that support, and they need the coverage to make sure that their loved ones can come home and they can enjoy this day that we're having.
No one knows for sure what direction this is all going in, but they all know it's going somewhere that's definitely lucrative. The big networks are scrambling in their own ways to get it all together to make it work and avoid getting left behind. For the moment it's an unknown.