C-SPAN to Feature Santa Fe Literature and History

Weeklong Visit begins with January 8 Kick off

At the Community Convention Center at 4:00 p.m.

CITY OF SANTA FE and COMCAST Hosts C-SPAN

Kick off Event Features:

Mayor David Coss, Historian Jose Garcia, Santa Fe Public Library Director Pat Hodapp, Baile Espanol Dañcers, and a special presentation of the Don Diego De Vargas proclamation

In partnership with Comcast and the City of Santa Fe, Mayor David Coss, Historian Jose Garcia and Santa Fe Public Library Director Pat Hodapp will be on hand to welcome C-SPAN as the network prepares to feature the city’s history and literary life on the cable network’s non-fiction book channel BookTV (on C-SPAN2) and history channel American History TV (on C-SPAN3).

On Tuesday, January 8^th at 4pm, Mayor  David Coss, Jose Garcia, and Pat Hodapp, along with Eilene Vaughn-Pickrell of Comcast, will give remarks at Santa Fe Community Convention Center (201 W. Marcy) to kick off the network’s week-long filming of various literary and historic sites, interviews with local authors and civic leaders.   C-SPAN representatives will announce the segments that will be explored during the weeklong visit to Santa Fe. There will be a special presentation of the Don Diego De Vargas proclamation. The media is invited to attend.

This event and others will air during a special Santa Fe feature weekend on February 2-3.

In Santa Fe, Comcast provides the C-SPAN Networks on these channels:  C-SPAN: 26; C-SPAN2:  27;  C-SPAN3: 105.  

C-SPAN videojournalists are travelling in specially detailed Ford Transit Connect vehicles, which C-SPAN is calling Local Content Vehicles (LCV’s), visiting various literary and historic sites and interviewing local historians, authors and civic leaders.  Outfitted with the most current digital camera, editing and other recording technologies, each member of the LCV team is equipped to shoot and edit video on location as well as make presentations to schools and community organizations about C-SPAN and its public affairs content.

C-SPAN’s LCV project also incorporates extensive digital and social media outreach, including use of Twitter, Facebook, foursquare, and online streaming on C-SPAN websites.   C-SPAN video from each city will be archived – and easily searchable, clippable, and shareable – through C-SPAN’s online Video Library. 

Santa Fe is the Tour's first visit of the New Year and in a new region of America: it is the Tour's first visit to a Southwestern USA city.  Over the coming months the Local Content Vehicle tour will make similar visits to: Albuquerque, NM, Mesa, AZ, Yuma, AZ, Palm Springs, CA, and Bakersfield, CA.