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EBAY CHARITY AUCTION PRESENTS THE BEST CABLE TELEVISION HAS TO OFFER FOR 'CABLE FIGHTS AIDS ONLINE AUCTION TO BENEFIT CABLE POSITIVE'

HBO The Sopranos Leather Jacket Signed By The Entire Cast, Passes to Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio, VJ Guided Tour of MTV Studios and More to Fight AIDS

NEW YORK, NY - September 16, 2002
Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry's AIDS action organization, has launched it first online auction on ebay, the world's online marketplace, to offer the best cable television has to offer through Cable Fights AIDS Online Auction from September 16 - 26, 2002. Networks who have donated exclusive experience packages and items for the auction include: A&E, BET, Bravo, Comedy Central, CNBC, Food Network, HBO, Lifetime, MTV, PAX, Showtime and SOAPnet.

The Cable Fights AIDS Online Auction to Benefit Cable Positive offers cable television fans everything from exclusive experience packages, such as passes to Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio and a VJ guided tour of MTV's studios in New York where they tape TRL, to autographed memorabilia, such as a HBO The Sopranos leather jacket signed by the entire cast of the show and a limited edition South Park lithograph from Comedy Central signed by the show's creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

To view these and other items up auction for Cable Fights AIDS Online Auction to Benefit Cable Positive, please go to www.cablepositive.org and hit the Cable Fights AIDS Online Auction To Benefit Cable Positive icon or go directly to ebay at http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/cablepositiveauctions/.

The money raised through this auction will go to Cable Positive's awareness, education and prevention efforts. More items will be added before September 26, 2002 so keep checking back.

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 is dedicated to unifying the talents, resources, access and influence of the communications industry to raise AIDS awareness; to fund AIDS education, research and care; and to promote a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS. Cable Positive has grown to include supporters from every major cable network, MSO, system, hardware manufacturer, trade association, media publication, and affiliated industry vendors and suppliers. Since 1992, Cable Positive has raised more than $9 million in the fight against AIDS. For more information about Cable Positive call 212.459.1502.