FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  September 30, 2020

(New York, NY) This year’s Seventy-Fifth Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner will be broadcast live from the residence of Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York on Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 7pm. He and Mary Erdoes, Vice Chair of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation will host a virtual event that will closely follow the traditional program of the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner: The National Anthem, Invocation, Dedication to Frontline Workers, the Speeches, and Closing Prayer.

Due to COVID restrictions and an abundance of safety precautions there will be no media present for the live virtual event. A live feed and satellite will be available to the media. The event will also be available via livestream. See link and password below:

Please find information to access the feed below:

18:00-20:00 EDT

Available at the NY Switch ( NY Pool 1)

OR

SES 3 1K Slot A

Downlink Freq: 11730 H

SYM- 7.2

FEC- ¾

DBBS2 8PSK

Trouble #: Leonard Laxer 917-299-020

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Press Contact: Mercedes Anderson, Director of Communications for the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation

[email protected]

(646)794-2996