Media Information

Below you will find information on press credentials, media guides, and media opportunities. We welcome your coverage of our event and we will do our best to accommodate your organization.

For questions your media contact is:
Brad Windsor
Ph: 309-657-3854
PO Box 1191, Peoria, IL 61653-1191
Email

Press Credentials

To apply for press credentials, email your request with all pertinent information.

All requests must be received at least ten days before the show. If this request is not made in time, credentials WILL NOT BE distributed to your organization. NO EXCEPTIONS!

If requests are received in time, credentials will be mailed to the organization. Multiple passes will not be issued for the same organization; this will need to be orchestrated within your organization. There will be a limit of three press passes issue per organization.

Pertinent information includes:

• Name(s) of individuals that will be attending event
• Position of the individual (reporter, photographer)
• Name of organization being represented. If you are a freelance journalist, please provide the name of the organization you will be covering the event for, along with a letter on company letterhead stating you are a freelance journalist for that organization. The letter must be signed by the editor. If you are an unassigned freelance photographer please list two references complete with phone number and/or e-mail address and what news organization the reference is associated.
• Contact information (e-mail, phone and mailing address)
• Day(s) in which credentialed individuals will attend

Press Credential Distribution

If requests are received in time (not less than ten days before the show), credentials will be mailed to the organization. Excessive passes will not be issued for the same organization ("excessive" will be decided by the executive staff committee members).

If your request was submitted in the ten days immediately prior to the show, passes should be picked up at the VIP entrance gate with proper media credentials.

Mailed credential package will include:

• Site contact number for an air show representative will be posted on the back of press credentials.
• Schedule of media opportunities (below are some general media opportunities, a more detailed list will be included with press kit)
  • Preparations for the air show occur throughout the week, starting on the Monday before the show.
  • Set-up/Tear-down of show
  • New and better show site layout
  • Volunteers – it takes hundreds of volunteers to make this happen!
  • Our beneficiaries
  • Our pre-show events. Friday is the press show!
  • air show performers visit to Children"s Hospital (dates and times available closer to the show)
  • Interviews with specific performers
  • Media Day is Friday - Press show will begin around noon (time subject to change, please double check the week of the show) - Make-A-Wish Kids will be in attendance and performers will come visit with them after they perform.

Media Access Guidelines

• Filming or photography of events for private sale or commercial distribution is prohibited; prior written approval from PNC Air Show, Inc. is required.
• Credentials are available to authorized personnel only for the purpose of providing timely mass media coverage of the event. Credentials are available for working press only. Pre-registration is HIGHLY ENCOURAGED and will speed on-site access privileges.
• PNC Air Show requests that you submit published work within 2-3 weeks after the show.
  The work can be mailed to:
  Attn: Brad Windsor
  PNC Air Show, Inc.
  PO Box 1191,
  Peoria, IL 61653-1191