THUNDER GOES GLOBAL ON JULY 4TH

2008-07-01T11:05:17

THUNDER OVER LOUISVILLE TO BE SEEN
AROUND THE WORLD ON JULY 4 

A ritual of spring in Kentucky will be used to celebrate the nation's Independence Day. The Kentucky Derby Festival's 2008 Opening Ceremonies, Thunder Over Louisville, will be rebroadcast both locally and around the world this week.

WDRB-TV, the local FOX affiliate, exclusively aired the original air show and fireworks coverage on April 12 and has produced a two-hour edited version that will be shown on the American Forces Network on July 4.  All together, the Thunder broadcast will be seen by more than one million U.S. Armed Forces personnel, Department of Defense civilian employees and their families stationed overseas in 176 countries and U.S. territories, as well as aboard more than 140 U.S. Navy ships at sea. The show features the entire 30-minute fireworks show as well as portions of the air show and other Thunder Day activities.

WDRB will also air a two-hour version from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on July 4 and air the Thunder fireworks show from 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. that night. 

A one-hour condensed version of Thunder Over Louisville with video provided by FOX, will be broadcast by KET this week.  The show will air on these KET channels:

Thunder Over Louisville - the Derby Festival's Opening Ceremonies - is one of the more than 70 events produced by the Derby Festival in the spring. The 2008 Thunder Over Louisville, themed "Out Of This World," was the 19th annual production. The show was sponsored this year by Caesars Indiana, E.ON U.S., Meijer, UPS and community McDonald's Thunder Funders.