California Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman to Meet in Televised Debate on May 2nd

California Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman to Meet in Televised Debate on May 2nd

One Hour Debate Will be Carried Live Throughout the State and Offered to 27 Public Radio Affiliates Event Sponsored by Comcast, The Silicon Valley Leadership Group, The California Channel, The California Cable & Telecommunications Association, Time Warner Cable, Cox Cable, Charter Communications and The Tech Museum of Innovation

LIVERMORE, Calif., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT:

A one hour debate between California Republican gubernatorial candidates Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman. The format for the debate will feature a moderator as well as questions from a panel of five political journalists to the candidates, allowing for a two minute "answer" and a one minute "response."

The debate is sponsored by Comcast, The Silicon Valley Leadership Group, The California Channel, The California Cable & Telecommunications Association, Time Warner Cable, Cox Cable, Charter Communications and The Tech Museum of Innovation. The audience at the event will consist of 200 invited guests (please note that all audience members must be invited and confirmed - there will be no walk-ups).

Comcast will be responsible for production of the debate, and is offering audio feeds and a satellite uplink to any media organization interested in carrying the debate or capturing segments for news programming.

The debate will be televised live in high-definition (HD), and shown commercial free throughout the state by The California Channel (http://www.calchannel.com/) and Comcast Hometown Network (Channel 104) http://comcasthometown.com/. It will be replayed several times on Comcast Hometown Network (Channel 104), and will also be available shortly after the event via Comcast's popular ON DEMAND platform, which is free to Comcast digital customers any time of the day or night. To view via ON DEMAND, Comcast Digital Cable customers can tune to Channel 1 on their Digital Cable lineup or press the ON DEMAND button on their remote control. In addition, Comcast will also provide a live audio feed to KQED-FM which will offer it to its 27 public radio affiliates across California.

The official pool photographer for the debate portion of the event will be from The San Jose Mercury News. Both candidates will be available for interviews and photographs following the debate.

WHO:
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Steve Poizner, California State Insurance Commissioner
Meg Whitman, Former Chief Executive Officer of eBay Inc.

Moderator:
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John Myers, Sacramento Bureau Chief for KQED

Media Panel:
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Mike Blood, Associated Press
Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee
Santiago Lucero, Univision
Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle
Josh Richman, Contra Costa Times

WHEN:
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

WHERE:
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The Tech Museum of Innovation
201 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
http://www.thetech.org/info/directions/

SATELLITE INFORMATION:
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AMC 15-K04 (Ku Band)
36 MHZ
Full Transponder (105 degrees west)
Uplink Freq 14080.0000 V
Downlink Freq 11780.0000 H
Symbol Rate: 26Msps
Data Rate: 39.93Mbps
FEC: 5/6
Transponder Bandwidth: 35.36MHz

Source: Comcast

CONTACT: Jeff Giles of Comcast Hometown Network, +1-925-424-0362,
jeffery_giles@cable.comcast.com, or Bryan Byrd of Comcast Media Relations,
+1-916-515-2821, bryan_byrd@cable.comcast.com

Web Site: http://comcasthometown.com/

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