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The 2023 AES 500 Festival Parade<\/strong> will take place on Saturday, May 27, in downtown Indianapolis. Parade festivities start at 11:45 am, with the parade beginning at noon. The Parade will be telecast to the Indianapolis market on WTHR, Channel 13, and nationally on Peacock.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC will add a new two hours of pre-race coverage<\/strong> for the Indianapolis 500 to its race day lineup on May 28, starting at 9 a.m. as part of its 60-plus hours of live programming for the Month of May on the Peacock streaming service.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The additional two hours of coverage will include action from the Snake Pit and include a performance from DJ Diesel — aka Shaquille O’Neal — and lead into NBC’s traditional pre-race show that will air starting at 11 a.m. and head into the green flag that’s set to drop around 12:45 p.m. NBC’s broadcast window will run until 4 p.m., giving the network seven hours of 500 coverage on race day.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE: If you live in Indianapolis and surrounding area, local NBC affiliates will likely block live coverage of the race. However, the Peacock app will still stream live.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2023 AES 500 Festival Parade will take place on Saturday, May 27, in downtown Indianapolis. Parade festivities start at 11:45 am, with the parade beginning at noon. The Parade will be telecast to the Indianapolis market on WTHR, Channel 13,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48503,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/48503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}