Media Information | Because of requirements involving COVID-19, outside media will not be permitted beyond the front entrance to WKYT.
However, stations may record the debate for news coverage and request access to virtual post-debate interviews. If candidates and or campaign staff wish to be interviewed after the debate, they will be escorted to a designated area for interviews which will be entirely virtual for registered media via Zoom.
Deadline for requests for access to satellite coordinates for recording and virtual post-debate interviews is noon, Monday, October 12.
Media recording the debate must abide by the following restrictions:
Excerpts may not be used until after 8 p.m. on Monday, October 12
Outlets may use up to three minutes of video or audio in total in regularly scheduled newscasts
Live streaming of the debate feed by non-Gray Television stations is prohibited
In the Lexington DMA, television stations must give verbal and on screen graphic courtesy to WKYT. Radio stations must give verbal courtesy to WKYT.
In the Louisville DMA, television stations must give verbal and on screen graphic courtesy to WAVE. Radio stations must give verbal courtesy to WAVE.
Other media in markets that serve Kentucky counties and have a Gray Television station in their market, verbal and/or on-screen courtesy must be given to the Gray-owned station. Example: WXIX in Cincinnati, WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, WVLT in Knoxville, WBKO in Bowling Green, WFIE in Evansville, and KFVS in Cape Girardeau/Paducah.
Outlets that broadcast to a statewide or national audience, must give verbal and on screen courtesy to Gray Television.
By 9 p.m., WKYT will provide a link for downloadable still photographs of the debate or high resolution screen shots of the broadcast for interested media.