Open Dress Rehearsal Schedule and Live Feeds for PBS's 2011 National Memorial Day Concert

Open Dress Rehearsal Schedule and Live Feeds for PBS's 2011 National Memorial Day Concert

Featuring a Special Commemoration of 9/11 Live From The U.S. Capitol

WHAT:Open dress rehearsals for accredited media of the National Memorial Day Concert.

Note: The concert will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, May 29, 2011, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings).

WHEN: SAT., MAY 28 TALENT REHEARSAL SCHEDULE (subject to change):
10:00A - 11:15A Pia Toscano
11:15A - 11:45A Hayley Westenra
11:45A - 12:45P Yolanda Adams
2:00P - 2:30P Daniel Rodriguez
2:30P - 3:00P NSO Performance - "War" Theme from Pearl Harbor
3:00P - 3:30P Kris Allen
3:30P - 4:00P Jason Ritter, Forest Whitaker, Dianne Wiest
4:00P - 4:30P Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise
4:30P - 5:15P General Colin Powell (stand-in)
5:15P - 5:45P Gary Sinise and A.J. Cook
FULL CONCERT DRESS REHEARSAL (see below for live feed
8:00 to 10:30 p.m. info)

** CLOSED SET FRIDAY AND SUNDAY, MAY 27 & 29: NO MEDIA ACCESS **

WHERE:U.S. CAPITOL, WEST LAWN, IN FRONT OF THE STAGE.

ADMISSION: Admission is based on current, valid press credentials; call for information about on-site parking for media trucks.

LIVE FEED: Pool members -- CNN, CBS, NBC, FOX and ABC -- are invited to use the live program feed available at Verizon's AVOC pool switch Source Port #5 by calling the CNN (pool chair) assignment desk at (202) 898-7911. The pool chair is Kelly Smoot. The feed will be available in HD 1080i on Saturday, May 28, 20:00 - 22:30 EDT (full dress rehearsal) and Sunday, May 29, 20:00 - 21:30 EDT (live broadcast). All media are welcome to receive the live broadcast of the concert on PBS's Digital Clear Feed which can be found on AMC 1, C-Band Transponder 20 located at 103 degrees West Longitude. This service is an unencrypted digital clear feed with both a HD 1080i PID and a Standard Def. PID. (The digital IRD setup pararmeters follow on page two of this advisory.) Additionally, a mult feed will be available from the production truck on site.

CREDIT: The maximum footage allowed for use is 3 minutes and the video credit which must be chyroned while footage is broadcast is National Memorial Day Concert/PBS.

CONTACT: Technical contact for all other information and for assistance on site is:
Tad Scripter/Capital Concerts, Inc.
Cell phone: (818) 903-5711

PBS FEED:

The PBS digital clear feed can be received by readily-available digital consumer receivers. The feed is on Transponder 20 of the AMC-1 satellite located at 103 degrees West Longitude.

Technical parameters of the feed are:

AMC-1, 103 degrees West Longitude
C-Band Transponder 20 (Vertical polarization)
DVB-S QPSK modulation
Carrier Center Frequency: 4091 Mhz (1059 Mhz L-Band)
Symbol rate: 14.028731 Msps

The feed is MCPC with two services:

1. High Definition Service: MPEG Service # 3

49 (decimal) /31
Video PID: (hex) MPEG-2
52 (decimal) /34
Audio1 PID: (hex) MPEG
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Audio2 PID: (hex) MPEG
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Audio3 PID: (hex) MPEG
55 (decimal) /37
Audio4 PID: (hex) Dolby AC-3 2.0/5.1
Closed
Captions: 608 & 708

2. Standard Definition Service: MPEG Service # 11

177 (decimal) /B1
Video PID: (hex) MPEG-2
180 (decimal) /B4
Audio1 PID: (hex) MPEG
181 (decimal) /B5
Audio2 PID: (hex) MPEG
182 (decimal) /B6
Audio3 PID: (hex) MPEG
Closed
Captions: 608 & 708

For additional assistance call:877.727.4144, or send email to: backyardfeeds@pbs.org.

Karen Baratz: office (240) 497-1811
Kristina Hallman: cell (202) 361-7090
Carol Marshall: cell (213) 598-5888

Press Web Site: www.pbs.org/pressroom

Web Site: www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 24, 2011/

SOURCE Capital Concerts

Capital Concerts

Web Site: http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/

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