ATLANTA -- Cobb Energy Center -- February 16from email I just received...Subject: Re: PBS and AtlantaThanks! This is what she asked me to share with the Georgia fans. Please pass it along far and wide as you think best ) DebiPBA30, AtlantaPBS station will premiere Clay Aiken: Tried and True on Saturday, July 31 @8pm with an encore at 9:30pm. As a pledge incentive, PBA30 will offer on-air a limited number of VIP PIT Meet and Greet (pre-show) tickets as well as a limited number of PIT tickets to Clays Live Atlanta concert February 16, 2011! As a bonus to those tickets, PBA30 will also include the DVD and CD from the show! Additionally, PBA will havegreat PREMIUM seats at Cobb Energy Centre (PRE PUBLIC SALE of tickets!) available. Members are seated on a first-pledge, first-seat basis. Clay visited the studios of PBA30 recently and shared with PBAs Alicia Steele some great insight about the program and interesting information about his life and career! So please be sure to tune in, and support, PBA30 Atlantas PBS station, this Saturday at 8pm!
Thank you for contacting Georgia Public Broadcasting. Yes! we will air Clay Aiken on Sunday, August 1st @ 9:30pm. We will broadcast Clay Aiken again on Tues, August 3rd at 7pm and Saturday, August 7th @ 2am.I have listed the thank you gifts that are available when you make a donation to Georgia Public Broadcasting. If you have additional questions, please contact the Member & Audience Services Department at 404-685-4788 or 1-800-222-4788. A representative is available to assist you Monday thru Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm.Best regards,Joniese WhiteClay Aiken – Tried &True: Live! Live 8/1 9:30PM PPCA70 Digital Download, Clay Aiken: Tried & True $55 PPCA33 CD, Clay Aiken: Tried & True $65 PPCA52 DVD, Clay Aiken – Tried & True: Live! $75 PPCA62 Combo: DVD, Clay Aiken – Tried & True: Live! + Deluxe 2-disc set, Clay Aiken: Tried & True $125 PPCA63 Ticket Combo: Pair of tickets to see Clay Aiken at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on 2/16/2011 in Atlanta + CD, Clay Aiken: Tried & True $225
REPORT FROM HOTLANTA:Sally just called me for an "intervention" with the Atlanta Concert tickets. Not really -- she had already spent $500 for two front row (pit) tickets w/ M&Gs, DVD, CD, the whole kit and kaboodle!!! She asked Phone Lady if they were receiving lots of calls. "Oh, yes." Sally told her if Atlanta keeps bringing Clay Aiken back, the station will get lots of memberships because he has a huge, loyal fan base willing to spend big bucks to see him. I think Phone Lady is a believer! One thing Sally mentioned is that before they would talk to her about concert tickets, they wanted to know her zip code. She got the feeling Atlanta would like to keep the concert local.ETA: She also said that Clay looked good and talked great on the pledge breaks.
Another Georgia fan checking in!!! I can't get the PBS channel that broadcast the special over in Athens, so I'm at a friend's house (Ruthie! Thank you!) with three other fans! Good times! Next we're going to watch some of the Timeless Tour and THEN listen to the cellcert from Reno! Did I mention that I AM spending the night!? LOL!As Chris said, the special was incredible!!! Clay was so handsome! His hair looked a lot like it did in the special but brownish-red instead of the blondish-red and with a few more spikes in the top. Of course, we know it was a "canned" appearance but if you were watching at home, it appeared that he was live in the studio. The hostess was animated and vibrant and she and Clay seemed to have a good rapport. Now, this station is one of the ones that has tickets to a Feb concert as a pledge gift. Clay talked about how much better the concert would be. It will be longer, have songs that didn't make the show, songs he recorded but didn't make the album and songs he wanted to record in the future. Sounds practically perfect to me!!! Two pit seats and M&G were $500 which is pretty rich for my blood but I took the plunge with a friend and we're gonna do it! I don't know how many M&G's there are. The station is running the special back to back and at the end of the first one, they were only advertising premium tickets, no pit tickets. However, in the first break in the second broadcast, they did have M&G tickets. I can't remember which one of the breaks it was but he also mentioned how he liked to interact with the crowd and how much he liked the feedback from the crowd. Hopefully they'll applaud, he said! He said he talks to people in the audience and sometime they talk back. US? Talk back?! He mentioned how PBS is a part of people's lives. He used to fall asleep at his grandmother's house during her soap operas and then she would wake him up for "Sesame St". Then when he was a teacher, he would have 'Arthur" on in the morning when the kids came into class. Now he has a son and they watch PBS in the morning...but I can't remember the show he named. (I'll try to edit this report when I watch my tape.) He talked about how he and Ruben hadn't performed together in 7 years and how Ruben has an infectious personality and he loves his voice.Hostess talked about all the "amazing things" he has done from double platinum album, book, Broadway, foundation, UNICEF. Clay said he was tired! And he said his line about how everything is better than the previous one and that he never dreamed he would have his own PBS special. Also told the story about how his mom wanted him to record UM and go to Nashville. Talked about how the shows on PBS are member supported and geared towards what the members want. In the last segment, they talked about how "Clay knows something about voting" and Clay said to call in an pledge during the program so he would get the credit!It was wonderful to see "In My Life" again! I'm glad that I have a copy of it now!If CV needs a copy to this broadcast, I think my friend can get it to us
