CN8, The Comcast Network Tracks America's Next President With Extensive Coverage of Campaign '08

CN8, The Comcast Network Tracks America's Next President With Extensive Coverage of Campaign '08

Comprehensive Year-long Political Coverage to Include National, State and Local Races of Relevance to CN8's Nine Million Viewers

Political Director Lynn Doyle Kicks Off Election Coverage with Live, In-Depth Analysis of Iowa Caucus, Thursday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- CN8, The Comcast Network today announced the launch of "America's Next President," delivering unprecedented political coverage and its most expansive election package to date. Coverage and analysis begins with the Iowa Caucus and will continue throughout the year, providing viewers an inside look at the candidates, platforms and issues that will impact their lives at a national, regional and local level. In addition to airing on CN8, this exclusive programming will be made available to Comcast Cable systems nationwide with an opportunity to reach more than 24 million homes. Programming will also be made available online at http://www.cn8.tv/ and ON DEMAND across the CN8 footprint.

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CN8's election coverage kicks-off in Iowa, Thursday, Jan. 3 at 9 p.m. and the network will remain on the campaign trail with live broadcasts and analysis from all major events leading up to the presidential election. Featured political events will include: the New Hampshire Primary; Super Tuesday; the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention; Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates; Election Night; and Inauguration. CN8 will also cover the primaries in each of the states in its viewership area. Event coverage will initiate from the network's Philadelphia headquarters with on-site reporters and a live panel of analysts reacting to breaking news and key issues from across CN8's six state-of-the-art studios along the East Coast and its dozens of remote studio locations and mobile broadcast trucks.

"Political coverage has been a hallmark of CN8 since its inception in 1996, and the 2008 elections promise to be one of the most compelling political events in our nation's history," said Michael Doyle, president, Comcast Cable Eastern Division and founder, CN8, The Comcast Network. "CN8 will provide the highest standards of political coverage, designed to educate and inform our viewers in a meaningful way that will be relevant to their lives, their communities and their country."

Eight-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and CN8 Political Director, Lynn Doyle, will lead CN8's coverage of "America's Next President." Doyle is supported by CN8's on-air political journalists and experts, including Robert Traynham, CN8's new Washington bureau chief and former political communications strategist; Larry Kane, a seasoned broadcast journalist who has covered 21 political conventions and hundreds of major national events; and Art Fennell, a 20-year news veteran and former president of the National Association of Black Journalists.

"We are fortunate to have a team with tremendous depth and breadth covering all aspects of politics," said Jon Gorchow, general manager and vice president of CN8, The Comcast Network. "CN8's talented team includes hundreds of individuals with political experience both on-camera and behind-the-scenes."

CN8 also announced plans to launch "American Voters" later this year, tracking eight voters of diverse backgrounds located within the network's Maine to Virginia footprint. The six-week series will examine election issues impacting the voters personally and regionally, in the engaging, interactive format viewers have come to expect of "It's Your Call with Lynn Doyle." "American Voters" will air this fall, live, weeknights at 9 p.m.

For voters who miss an important event or debate, CN8 leverages Comcast's exclusive products and services by making its political programming available online at http://www.cn8.tv/ and via Comcast Digital Cable's ON DEMAND service. In addition, CN8 will again produce hundreds of "Candidates On Demand" segments, delivering in-depth candidate interviews that customers can watch at their convenience any time, day or night, at no additional charge. In 2006, CN8 and Comcast Cable used this innovative technology to provide more than 500 interviews covering 350 races ON DEMAND.

Past highlights of CN8 political coverage include live, on-site coverage of the events surrounding Boston's 2004 Democratic National Convention; gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia; and extensive campaign and election night coverage of the nation's presidential races and leading gubernatorial, senate, congressional and mayoral races and debates.

About CN8, The Comcast Network

CN8, The Comcast Network is owned and operated by Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., a division of Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA; CMCSK) and the country's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. CN8, The Comcast Network provides more than 9 million Comcast cable viewers with a unique brand of live, interactive television delivered over its own fiber-optic network to 12 states and 20 television markets stretching from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. CN8 was founded in 1996 and has quickly grown to become the nation's leading regional cable network, airing more than 90 hours a week of original programming from its six studios in the Baltimore, Boston, Delaware, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. areas. CN8 provides in-depth coverage and analysis of special events and important news that broadcast networks often ignore. Since its inception, CN8 has delivered on its mission to continually reshape and revolutionize regional television and its relevance to local, regional and national viewers. CN8 is a member of The White House Correspondents' Association and its programming and hosts have been honored by the industry with more than 370 regional Emmy Award nominations.

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