ABC News announces date for Jaycee Dugard interview

ABC News has set a date for what are to be the world's first televised moments with kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard.

At 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, the network will run Diane Sawyer's two-hour interview with Dugard. The 31-year-old California woman was kidnapped on her way to school at age 11 by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and then subjected to sexual and psychological abuse while in captivity for the next 18 years.

As part of their conversation, Sawyer and Dugard will discuss the latter's soon-to-be-released memoir, "A Stolen Life," out next month from Simon & Schuster. Additionally, "Dugard will be asked about the extraordinary and heartbreaking story of her captivity [and] her reunion with her family," according to a press release.

Multiple news organizations had been vying for the high-profile exclusive, but ABC won out. The New York Times reported two weeks ago that while the network did not submit to an interview fee, it did pay a "six-figure sum" for rights to Dugard's home movies.

ABC and its rival, NBC, recently found themselves at the center of a debate over checkbook journalism as a result of such scoop-related profligacies.