From: Rink, Deane (South Pole Station) 
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 2:29 AM
To: Blain, ED (South Pole Station)
Cc: Kramer, Chuck (South Pole Station); Brock, Norris (South Pole
Station); Wilson, Richard (South Pole Station); Sturm, Eric 
(South Pole
Station); Kelley, Joel (South Pole Station); Rink, Deane (South Pole
Station)
Subject: Millennium Day Broadcast timings


There will be five occasions on US television where South 
Pole bits will be featured.  This is on ABC/PBS; I have been 
unable to get a straight explanation about whether the ABC 
feeds will be repeated on PBS, or perhaps PBS will have a 
separate and different agenda.  I do know that we are feeding 
all our segments to ABC News Operations, and that certain PBS 
execs have moved to NYC specially for this broadcast, so I 
presume that these timings are primarily for ABC.

All times are Eastern Standard times; the broadcast will last 
for over 24 hours, commencing at 4:42 AM EST on December 31, 
New Year's Eve day.  Total ABC broadcast will be hosted by 
Peter Jennings.


12/31   04:42 AM  EST  Overture (5 minutes of electronic 
greetings from all over the world, including probably ten 
seconds from our own ceremonial pole, set to original 
commissioned music)

12/31   06:48 AM  EST  New Construction and Cosmology on the 
Ice (featuring the outfall tunnel, the power plant arch 
raising, the topping off of the Dark Sector Lab, and an 
introduction to DASI, the newest of the CARA telescopes) 

12/31   10:31 AM  EST  Re-Siting the Geographic South Pole by 
the US Geological Survey {LIVE}

12/31   12:48 PM  EST  Global Climate - What NOAA monitoring 
at South Pole tells us {partially live}

1/1/00  12:48 AM  EST  South Polar lifestyles - dinner party, 
millennium New Year's party, portraits of selected Pole-cats.