Republican gubernatorial debate

posted on 1.19.2010

Originating from WFAA-TV studios
Dallas 

 List of stations airing the debate

** Is your station going to air the debate live? TAB is posting a list of stations, so send us the following: call sign, DT channel (3.1, 3.2, etc) OR radio frequency, market city, affiliation, live/delayed or streamed, station owner, station website. **

Participants: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Debra Medina, Gov. Rick Perry

Belo Panelists: WFAA-TV News Anchor John McCaa (moderator);  Wayne Slater, The Dallas Morning News; News Anchors Len Cannon, KHOU-TV Houston, Sarah Lucero, KENS-TV San Antonio, Terri Gruca, KVUE-TV Austin

On-Site Coverage: Limited opportunities, pre and post-debate, at the WFAA-TV studios, 606 Young Street in Dallas. On-site coverage questions may be addressed to WFAA?s Marc Kravitz at (214) 977-6549. PLEASE put ?debate question? in subject line.

Web: Stations MAY NOT use the feed for streaming on stations? websites. Stations are only allowed to link to the WFAA-TV website for streaming purposes.

Radio Feed

The following is the feed information for Texas radio stations interested in airing the debate. Radio stations, regardless of their market location, may broadcast the debate live.

TSN: Affiliates will receive the feed on Service Channel 6. TSN affiliates with questions can contact Dan Bell, director of affiliate relations, at (214) 525-7311.

All Others: Non-TSN affiliates should contact Michael Schneider at TAB (512) 322-9944, for a limited user, coupler phone line solution to receive the feed.

In/Out Times/Breaks: In time is 19:00:00 and out time is expected to be 19:59:56, thus stations have the opportunity for a 4 second station ID. This is a LIVE event, so stations should be monitoring. Belo has added TWO one-minute long breaks to the debate. Belo will be filling them with station promos. Stations can fill them with spots if they want. The projected times for the breaks are 7:33 pm and 7:45 pm.

TV Feed

The following is the feed information for Texas TV stations interested in airing the debate. In Belo TV markets (Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio), Spanish stations and public broadcast stations will be permitted to carry the debate live. Outside Belo markets, all television stations may carry the debate live.

Window: Both English and Spanish windows are 6:30 ? 8:05 pm CST

In/Out Times/Breaks: In time is 19:00:00 and out time is expected to be 19:59:56, thus stations have the opportunity for a 4 second station ID. This is a LIVE event, so stations should be monitoring. Belo has added TWO one-minute long breaks to the debate. Belo will be filling them with station promos. Stations can fill them with spots if they want. The projected times for the breaks are 7:33 pm and 7:45 pm.

Satellite: Galaxy-17 (KU), located at 91 degrees west 

ENGLISH ? 16x9, Galaxy-17 16-A

• DL FREQ: 12005 VERT
• DATA RATE: 5.500000
• SYMBOL: 3.978723
• FEC: 3/4

SPANISH ? 16x9, Galaxy-17 16-B

• DL FREQ: 12010 VERT
• DATA RATE: 5.500000
• SYMBOL: 3.978723
• FEC: 3/4

HD Satellite: Galaxy-17 (KU), located at 91 degrees west

ENGLISH ONLY ? 16x9, Galaxy-17 16-L2

• DL FREQ: 12029 VERT
• DATA RATE: 19.886
• SYMBOL: 14.385617
• FEC: 3/4

Technical Questions: Danny Manley, WFAA-TV (PLEASE put ?debate question? in subject line) or call (214) 977-6325/(214) 803-2953 (cell)

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