Belo U.S. Senate Candidate Debate Oct. 2, 2012 – FEED INFORMATION
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz, and Democratic candidate and former State Rep. Paul Sadler will square off in a live debate broadcast on Tuesday, October 2, at 7 p.m.
The one-hour debate will originate from WFAA’s studios in Dallas This is the third U.S. Senate debate produced by Belo this year.
WFAA news anchor John McCaa will serve as host, and panelists will include WFAA news reporter Brad Watson, and political reporter Gromer Jeffers Jr. of The Dallas Morning News. Watson hosts the station’s Sunday program, “Inside Texas Politics,” on which Jeffers is a weekly contributor.
The broadcast will be available in English and Spanish to all television stations across Texas. It will also be fed closed captioned. With the exception of the Belo markets (Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin), the debate may be aired live by TV stations receiving the feed. Spanish TV stations and Texas radio stations in all markets may air the debate live.
TV stations in Belo markets may use portions of the debate in newscasts only, although PBS stations in Belo markets may air the entire debate on a tape-delayed basis.
Belo stations WFAA-TV Dallas/Ft. Worth and KVUE-TV Austin will air the debate live as will cable channel TXCN. KENS-TV San Antonio will air the debate on a tape-delay. KHOU-TV Houston will not be airing the debate or on tape delay. The debate will also be streamed live on the Belo television stations’ websites, as well as on DallasNews.com, the website of The Dallas Morning News.
BROADCAST CLEARANCE: Please let BELO know your station’s plans for broadcast of the debate. Stations can contact WFAA’s David Walther with the following information: call sign, DT channel (3.1, 3.2, etc.) OR radio frequency, market city, affiliation, date/time of airing, station owner, station website
TIMES: 6:45 PM CDT TEST 7 - 8:00 PM CDT PROGRAM RADIO FEED INFORMATION: A 64kpbs mp3 audio stream of the debate will be available thanks to the staff of KERA-FM/TV Dallas. The stream will be active on Oct. 2. The address is: http://kera-ice.streamguys.us/debate64kbps.m3u
TV SATELLITE FEED INFORMATION: HD and SD satellite feed information for Texas TV stations is as follows:
HD FEED Galaxy 17 Ku Band 91 Deg Vertical Downlink 12091.0 MHz Transponder 20 K20L1 19.886 Mbps or 14.385617 Msps Pid Info: HD Video A1 / English A2 / Spanish
SD FEED Galaxy 17 Ku Band 91 Deg Vertical Downlink 12105.0 MHz Transponder 20 K20-5E 5.5 Mbps or 3.9787 Msps Pid Info: SD Video A1 / English A2 / Spanish CLOSED CAPTION: English on HD & SD
TROUBLE #: 214-236-0222 Johnny Stigler, WFAA-TV Dallas 212-456-1700 ABSAT