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CABLE IS PREPARED TO DISH AGAIN

Cable Veteran Michele James Brings the Industry to the Table for the Second Edition of Cable Cooks…The Inside Dish to Benefit Cable Positive

NEW YORK, NY - July 18, 2003
Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry’s national non-profit AIDS action organization, announced today that Michele James, President, James & Co. and an honorary chair of Cable Positive, will work with volunteers from the industry and the staff of Cable Positive to produce the second edition of Cable Cooks…The Inside Dish.

Released in 1995, the first edition of Cable Cooks...The Inside Dish sold more than 4,000 copies and raised over $31,000 to support Cable Positive’s programs and services. The second book is set to arrive in May 2004 and will serve up more food, foibles and fodder from cable luminaries with proceeds benefiting Cable Positive’s fight against AIDS.

"The industry’s appetite for this book is huge…I know we will raise a good amount of money for a great organization, Cable Positive," says James. "The first book was a wonderful success on so many levels, and this edition will be even better with more dish than before."

James was inspired to create Cable Cooks as a tribute to her colleague and friend Joel Berger, whom Cable Positive’s prestigious Joel A. Berger Memorial Award is named after. Berger, who died of complications due to AIDS in 1995, was the publisher of Multichannel News and was one of the organization’s original and most fervent supporters serving as a Cable Positive Honorary Chair.

For sponsorship opportunities please contact Cable Positive’s Thomas Dima at 212.459.1605 or via email at thomas@cablepositive.org.

ABOUT CABLE POSITIVE
Cable Positive is a national non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by three concerned cable executives with the mission of organizing cable’s resources in the fight against AIDS. Cable Positive is dedicated to unifying the talents, resources, access and influence of the communications industry to raise AIDS awareness; fund AIDS education, research and care; and promote a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS.