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CABLE INDUSTRY LEADERS JOIN FORCES WITH CABLE POSITIVE TO HONOR COX COMMUNICATIONS' JIM ROBBINS FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS

Bresnan Communications’ BILL BRESNAN, MTV Networks’ NICOLE BROWNING, Turner Broadcasting System’s ANDY HELLER, Fox Networks Group’s TONY VINCIQUERRA and NBC Universal Cable’s DAVID ZASLAV Will Serve as Event Chairs of Positively Community: An Evening to Benefit Cable Positive on Tuesday, March 7, 2006

NEW YORK, NY - January 10, 2006
A team of high-powered cable industry leaders have joined forces with Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry’s AIDS action organization, to honor Cox Communications and its President and CEO James O. Robbins with the organization’s highest honor, the Joel A. Berger Memorial Award, for outstanding contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS. 

Bill Bresnan, Chairman and CEO, Bresnan Communications; Nicole Browning, President, Affiliate Sales and Marketing, MTV Networks; Andy Heller, President of Domestic Distribution, Turner Broadcasting System; Tony Vinciquerra, President and CEO, Fox Networks Group and David Zaslav, President, NBC Universal Cable will serve as event chairs for a fundraising dinner held in Robbins’ honor on Tuesday, March 7, 2006.  The event Positively Community: An Evening to Benefit Cable Positive will be held at The Marriott Marquis in New York City.

“This is a true measure of the respect and admiration that the cable industry holds for Jim Robbins and his leadership at Cox Communications,” said Cable Positive President and CEO Steve Villano.  “It also underscores the profound commitment and community-based contributions made by the entire team at Cox Communications in the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

Robbins and Cox Communications are the first multiple system operator to be honored by Cable Positive since James Dolan, President and CEO, Cablevision, Chairman, MSG was recognized for his invaluable work in the fight against HIV/AIDS  five years ago.  This also marks the first time in the organization’s 14-year history that five top industry leaders have come together to head Cable Positive’s Annual Benefit Dinner to support an honoree.

Robbins will join a list of distinguished cable and telecommunications leaders who have received the Joel A. Berger Memorial Award.  That list of honorees include: Carole Black (2005); Matt Blank (2004); Robert L. Johnson and Debra Lee (2003), Bill McGorry (2002), James L. Dolan (2001), Marc B. Nathanson (2000), Anne Sweeney (1999), Leo Hindery, Jr. (1998), Dick Aurelio (1997), Winston H. “Tony’ Cox (1996 – posthumously) and Jeffrey Bewkes and Michael Fuchs (1995).  The award is named for Joel A. Berger, a Cable Positive Honorary Chair and the group publisher of Multichannel News, who died of complications due to AIDS in April 1995.

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ABOUT CABLE POSITIVE
Cable Positive is a national non-profit organization that was founded in February 1992 by three concerned cable executives with the mission of organizing cable’s resources in the fight against AIDS. Cable Positive will mobilize the talents, resources, access and influence of the cable and telecommunications industry to raise HIV/AIDS awareness; support HIV/AIDS education, prevention and care; and strive to end stigma by creating a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV or AIDS. Cable Positive has grown to include supporters from every major cable network, multiple system operator, cable system, hardware manufacturer, trade association, media publication, and affiliated industry vendors and suppliers. Since 1992, Cable Positive has raised more than $14.9 million in the fight against AIDS. For more information about Cable Positive, call 212-459-1502 or log on to www.cablepositive.org.