OBAMA BITS: Commander in Chief ball; $5 million tab for TV; Tomb of the Unknown; Inauguration speech.

      *President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural ball for the military, to be headlined by Jon Bon Jovi and emceed by comedian George Lopez, will be broadcast to American troops stationed around the world. Jordin Sparks, Miss America 2009 Kirsten Haglund and the group Right On are scheduled to perform. The Presidential Inaugural Committee said Friday that the Commander in Chief ball would be broadcast live on the Pentagon Channel to military bases overseas. Tickets will be free to invited guests in the military, families of fallen troops and spouses of deployed soldiers.

       *Television networks paid more than $5 million for exclusive rights to show events surrounding President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, including Sunday's Lincoln Memorial concert and the Neighborhood Ball where Beyonce will serenade the new first couple. Nearly half the money, $2.5 million, was paid by HBO to broadcast Sunday's concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Obama's inaugural committee said the Walt Disney Co. is paying $2 million to show Tuesday's Neighborhood Ball on ABC and for a kids' concert Monday on The Disney Channel. MTV is paying $650,000 for a Youth Ball that will be shown worldwide.

       *President-elect Barack Obama has laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery after a short ride from Blair House. Obama, holding his hand over his heart, was joined at the tomb by Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Gen. Richard Rowe, commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington. Visitors to the hallowed burial grounds cheered Obama's limousine as it passed by under cloudy skies Sunday morning.

       *Barack Obama's inauguration address will call on Americans to embrace a new era of responsible behavior, both in government and in business, according to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for chief of staff. He says Obama's speech Tuesday will ask the nation to reject the "culture of anything goes" and ask Americans to restore a national value system that honors responsibility and accountability. It harkens back to John F. Kennedy's call for personal sacrifice in his 1960 inauguration address. Press secretary Robert Gibbs says the president-elect wrote out the bulk of the speech as it is now.