Political Capital With Al Hunt Launches on Bloomberg TV June 17

Political Capital With Al Hunt Launches on Bloomberg TV June 17

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to be First Guest

NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg, the global provider of data, news and analytics, today announced the launch on Saturday June 17th, of the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) program Political Capital, a weekly 30 minute program on politics, economics and public policy hosted by Al Hunt. The premiere edition of Political Capital will feature an interview with Senator Barack Obama (D-IL). The new program, broadcast from Washington, D.C., will include news analysis and reports from BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) journalists in Washington and around the world.

Political Capital airs on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION and on E! network on Saturday at 6:30 AM Eastern Time, and will be repeated on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION Saturday at 8:30 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 7:30 PM and 10:30 PM Eastern Time, and on Sunday at 1:30 AM, 4:30 AM, 10:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 4:30 PM Eastern Time.

Political Capital host Al Hunt is Executive Editor for Bloomberg News in Washington. Prior to joining Bloomberg in January 2005, Hunt spent 35 years in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal. There he was a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor. For 11 years, Hunt wrote the weekly Wall Street Journal column, "Politics & People." He also ran the newspaper's political polls for 20 years.

For 17 years, Hunt was a regular panelist on CNN's weekly public affairs program, The Capital Gang; and was a member of CNN's Novak, Hunt & Shields interview show. He has also served as panelist on NBC's Meet the Press and PBS' Washington Week in Review, as well as a political analyst for CBS Morning News.

Hunt is a contributor to a series of books on U.S. national elections by the American Enterprise Institute; "The American Elections of 1980;" "The American Elections of 1982;" and "The American Elections of 1984." In 1987, he co-authored the Brookings Institute's book, "Elections American Style." In Caroline Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage for Our Time," released in 2002, Hunt authored an essay about Sen. Russ Feingold and Sen. John McCain's campaign finance reform effort.

Political Capital joins a lineup of new weekend programming on BLOOMBERG TELEVISION during 2006. The new programs include Bloomberg Muse, a weekly look at the arts with host Carol Massar, that airs at 8pm on Friday and is repeated throughout the weekend; Market Week, a Friday night look at the market week that was and a look forward to the week ahead, anchored by Matt Nesto and airing at 8:30pm on Fridays, repeated at 10pm; and Conversations with Judy Woodruff, a monthly program that airs on the first Saturday of every month, featuring in-depth interviews by renowned journalist Judy Woodruff with guests from the worlds of politics, business, government, sports and the arts.

BLOOMBERG TELEVISION reaches the wealthiest and most influential audience in cable television. According to the latest Mendelsohn Affluent Survey (August 2005), BLOOMBERG TELEVISION viewers have the highest average household income, the highest average total assets and the highest average total real estate assets among cable network audiences. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION viewers have an average household income of approximately $180,000, eight percent higher than the 2nd ranked cable network and 12 percent higher than the next closest cable news network's viewers. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION's audience includes the highest concentration of chief officers, including those with titles of President, CEO and COO. BLOOOMBERG TELEVISION currently reaches more than 80 million U.S. households every weekday morning on the E! Entertainment Network. During non-E! hours, BLOOMBERG TELEVISION reaches more than 37 million households.

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