As NATO Meets in Chicago, Bill Ayers & Bernardine...
Special Inauguration Coverage
The 3-hour special itself can be downloaded in these formats (more to come throughout the day):
Audio:
Video:
- Podcast Video Download
- High-Quality Video via BitTorrent (huh?)
- Broadcast-Quality MPEG2
- Real Video
- Other Formats
Democracy Now! will be doing extended broadcasts on January 20th and January 21st to bring you special coverage of the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.
Please contact your local radio or TV station for local listings. There will also be a live video and audio stream of the show on our homepage at democracynow.org.
*_Inauguration Day, January 20th*
08:00AM–10:00AM ET
Democracy Now! will be presented as one two-hour show with a one-minute music interlude from 08:59–09:00 so that you can run it uninterrupted. Alternatively, you can broadcast it as two stand-alone hours. (Both hours will include news headlines and will include one minute breaks at 20 and 40 mins)
11:00AM–02:00PM ET
Democracy Now will broadcast the inauguration ceremony live with commentary. There will be no breaks during this broadcast due to the live nature of the ceremony. Stations can break away to identify themselves at a time of their choosing.
Morning After, January 21st
08:00AM–10:00AM ET
Democracy Now! will be presented as one two-hour show with a one-minute music interlude from 08:59–09:00 so that you can run it uninterrupted. Alternatively, you can broadcast it as two stand-alone hours. (Both hours will include news headlines and will include one minute breaks at 20 and 40 mins)
Promos
You can download promos for our 2009 Inauguration coverage for use on your station
Radio Stations
If you receive Democracy Now! through Pacifica’s Ku satellite:
- Jan. 20th and Jan. 21st Morning Shows: On the Ku LEFT Channel. It will be fed like this:
- 08:00AM–10:00AM Live
- 10:00AM–12:00PM Refeed
- 12:00PM–01:00PM Refeed of 1st hour only
- Jan. 20 Live Inauguration Ceremony: On the Ku RIGHT Channel:
- 11:00AM–02:00PM
If you receive Democracy Now! through PRSS / Content Depot you must subscribe to each part separately through their service. The files are named on Content Depot as follows:
- For The Morning Of Inauguration, Jan 20:
- The 08:00AM–09:00AM ET will be there as usual.
- You must subscribe separately to get the extra hour: "Democracy Now! Hour 2: Expanded Inauguration Coverage 01/20/09 9AM-10AM EST"
- For The Inauguration, Jan 20:
- Democracy Now! Inauguration Special Part 1 01/20/09 11:00 AM- 11:30 AM EST
- Democracy Now! Inauguration Special Part 2 01/20/09 11:30 AM- 1:30 PM EST
- Democracy Now! Inauguration Special Part 3 01/20/09 1:30 PM- 2:00 PM EST
- For Morning After, Jan 21st:
- The 08:00AM–09:00AM ET will be there as usual.
- You must subscribe separately to get the extra hour: "Democracy Now! Hour 2: Expanded Inauguration Coverage 01/21/09 9AM-10AM EST."
TV Stations
If you receive Democracy Now! from the C-Band satellite, the window has been extended for all broadcasts:
- On Jan 20th: The show goes live at 08:00AM EST as normal, and will end at 10:00AM ET.
- On Jan 20th: The Inauguration Special will go Live at 11:00AM EST and will end at 2:00AM EST
- On Jan 21st: The show goes live at 08:00AM EST as normal, and will end at 10:00AM ET.
For questions about these transmissions, please email our chief engineer, Peter Kurys <peter (at) democracynow (dot) org> and producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous <sharif (at) democracynow (dot) org>.
Columns
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an "extraordinary event." That is what the city of Charlotte, North Carolina called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of America is currently the second largest bank in the US (after JP Morgan Chase), claiming more than $2 trillion in assets. It is also the "too big to fail" poster child of Occupy Wall Street, a speculative banking monstrosity that profits from, among other things, the ongoing foreclosure crisis and the exploitation of dirty coal.
Web Exclusives
In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out.
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
