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Media Advisory

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 24, 2007
Contact: CPSC Public Affairs, (301) 504-7908

Fiber Line at CPSC Increases Broadcast Television Accessibility

*Attention Assignment Editors & Consumer Reporters:

Need a television interview with CPSC? Does your station want to cover CPSC’s hearings live?

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has installed a fiber line in the 4th floor hearing room. Stations can shoot interviews with CPSC staff or Commission hearings and transmit them via CPSC’s fiber line live to their newsrooms.

Or CPSC can shoot the interview and transmit it via the fiber line to stations. CPSC’s fiber line is connected to a teleport in Washington, DC.

*Transmission costs are the station’s responsibility.

CPSC Interview Contact:
Patty Davis, CPSC Public Affairs
301-504-7601

Transmission Contact: (to arrange for fiber i.e. Vyvx, or satellite transmission):
Chris Cowman, East Coast Video
202-419-6161 (Office)
202-437-7724 (Cell)


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