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COMEDY CENTRAL'S JON STEWART TO HOST "ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY - AN EVENING TO BENEFIT CABLE POSITIVE" HONORING CAHNERS' WILLIAM MCGORRY WITH SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST THE B-52'S

NEW YORK, NY - February 14, 2002
Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's Emmy award-winning "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," will host "Absolutely Positively - An Evening to Benefit Cable Positive" on April 25, 2002 at The Marriott Marquis in New York. Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry's national non-profit AIDS action organization, will honor William McGorry, Senior Vice President, Cahners Television and Telecom Group, with the 2002 Joel A. Berger Award for outstanding contribution in the fight against AIDS. The B52's are scheduled to perform at the benefit.

Carole Black, President and CEO, Lifetime Entertainment Services; Glenn Britt, Chairman and CEO, Time Warner Cable; and Larry Divney, President and CEO, Comedy Central will serve as dinner co-chairs.