My wife is a producer of C-SPAN's Book TV programs, but she knows of my jones for Kos and always sends me pertinent info. Below the fold you'll find the official memo regarding C-SPAN's coverage of the convention. For those of us who can't make it out to Vegas, this is a godsend!
FRIDAY JUNE 9, 2006
FED LIVE...DECISION ON WHICH NETWORK WILL AIR TO BE MADE THURSDAY JUNE 8TH
YEARLYKOS
YearlyKos Convention "YearlyKos:Uniting the Netroots"
11AM-12:15 PM ET
Progressive Players - leaders of the new progressive movement, including
Tom Matzzie of MoveOn
Arshad Hassan of Democracy for America
Gloria Trotten of Progressive Majority
Nathan Newman of Progress States Network
12:30PM - 1:45 PM
CIA Leak Investigation
Amb. Joe Wilson
Dan Froomkin - WashingtonPost.com
Murray Waas - National Journal
Larry Johnson - former CIA analyst and counterterrorism expert at the
State Department
Marcy Wheeler - Blogger Emptywheel
Christy Hardin Smith - attorney, former prosecutor and blogger at
Firedoglake
Jane Hamsher - producer (Natural Born Killers), author and blogger at
Firedoglake
2:15PM - 4:15PM Lunch Keynote: Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer with Q&A
2:20 Greeting by MC
2:25 Sponsor comments
2:30 Leader Pelosi
2:50 Q&A with audience
3::35 Sen. Boxer
3:55 Q&A with audience
4:15 end
4:30PM - 5:45 PM
MetaKos - the top bloggers of DailyKos
Hunter - Contributing Editor, Daily Kos
Markos - Contributing Editor, Daily Kos
Armando -Contributing Editor, Daily Kos
SusanG Contributing Editor, Daily Kos
Chris Bowers - MyDD (title being confirmed)
11AM-5:45PM ET Riviera Hotel Las Vegas Theater 1
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crew hire fed LIVE General Air
SATURDAY JUNE 10, 2006
LIVE ON C-SPAN
LIVE YEARLYKOS
12p YearlyKos Convention "YearlyKos:Uniting the Netroots"
12PM - 1PM ET
Communicating the Progressive Vision
John Javna - Author and Columnist, 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right
George Lakoff - University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics
Jeffrey Feldman - Frameshop, Editor-in-Chief/Founder
Justin Krebs - Founder, Drinking Liberally and The Tank
Jim Derych - Author, Confessions of a Former Dittohead
1:10 - 2:10
Blogosphere Experts -
an introduction to major bloggers, looking at issues such as What is the position of the blogosphere in the insider / outsider political dialetic?
Chris Bowers - MyDD
Peter Daou - Salon
Matt Stoller - BOPnews.com
Matt DeBergalis -- ActBlue
Tim Tagaris - swingstateproject.com
2:20-3:20
Political Journalism
Matt Bai - New York Times
Jay Rosen - NYU
Duncan Black - Atrios - Eschaton
Christy Smith - Firedoglake
12PM-3:20PM ET Riviera Hotel Las Vegas Theater 3
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from the organizers:
The YearlyKos Convention will be held at the Riviera hotel in Las Vegas from June 8-11, 2006. This is the first convention of its kind-bringing together progressive bloggers, netroots members and leading elected officials. The YearlyKos Convention is organized to bring together the netroots to build progressive infrastructure and effect positive change.