Jimmy Smits Hosts All-Star Line-Up With Steve Martin, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison, Jordin Sparks, Little Richard with the Broadway Cast of Million Dollar Quartet and Kelli O'Hara

Jimmy Smits Hosts All-Star Line-Up With Steve Martin, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison, Jordin Sparks, Little Richard with the Broadway Cast of Million Dollar Quartet and Kelli O'Hara

WHAT:Open dress rehearsals for accredited media of A Capitol Fourth Concert.
Note: The concert will be broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, July 4, 2011 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. ET (check local listings).

WHEN: SUN, July 3, TALENT REHEARSAL SCHEDULE (subject to change):
10:00A - 11:15A Matthew Morrison and Kelli O'Hara
11:15A - 12:15P Josh Groban
12:15P - 12:45P Jimmy Smits
2:00P - 2:15P Camera Block "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
2:15P - 4:00P Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers
4:00P - 4:10P Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"
4:10P - 5:10P The Broadway cast of Million Dollar Quartet
5:10P - 6:00P Jordin Sparks
8:00P - 10:30P FULL CONCERT DRESS REHEARSAL (see below for live feed info)

** CLOSED SET SATURDAY, JULY 2 AND MONDAY JULY 4: 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 Fox (pool chair) assignment desk at (202) 824-6369. The pool chair is Jodie Curtis. The feed will be available in HD 1080i on Sunday, July 3, 20:00 - 22:30 EDT (full dress rehearsal) and Monday, July 4, 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 parameters 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 A Capitol Fourth/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
FEC rate: ¾
Data rate = 19,392,658

The feed is MCPC with two services:

1. High Definition Service: MPEG Service # 3

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Video PID: (hex) MPEG-2
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Audio1 PID: (hex) MPEG
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Audio2 PID: (hex) MPEG
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Audio3 PID: (hex) MPEG
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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
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Audio2 PID: (hex) MPEG
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Audio3 PID: (hex) MPEG
Closed
Captions: 608 & 708

Press Web Site: www.pbs.org/pressroom
Web Site: www.pbs.org/capitolfourth

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

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- July 1, 2011/

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