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ADVISORY/Photo/Visual Opportunity: Best Buy Brings Fun Zone Technology Truck to New York City Marathon Expo.


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ADVISORY...for Thursday-Saturday (Nov. 1-3)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Electronics Retailer and XM Satellite Radio

Deliver Music, Fun to Marathon


      What: The Best Buy Fun Zone Technology Truck, a mobile marketing
        and entertainment destination, is available for media tours.
        The traveling Fun Zone features:
          --  Kiosks with interactive gaming and digital music zones.
          --  The latest technology offered at Best Buy stores,
            including products featured in integrated home office,
            high-definition home theater and high-tech kitchen
            settings.
          --  An expandable stage for events.

          Consumers who visit the Technology Truck can experience all of
        the technology first-hand and discover new ways to integrate
        the products into their lives, helping to make their time more
        fun and productive.

          Best Buy brings the Fun Zone Technology Truck to the New York
        City Marathon Expo in celebration of its sponsorship as the
        Entertainment Retailer of the Marathon. Best Buy is also
        working with XM Satellite Radio to bring music to the New York
        City Marathon at 10 locations along the 26-mile course. XM,
        the first digital satellite radio service in the U.S. with 100
        channels of music, news, sports and talk, will broadcast
        digital music representative of its many channels to help
        marathoners as they make their way through the five boroughs
        of New York.

      Where: Jacob Javits Center
          --  Fun Zone Truck will be positioned outside the Javits
            Center.
          --  XM Satellite Radio will have several trucks broadcasting
            music along the marathon route.

      When: Thursday, Nov. 1 - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
          Friday, Nov. 2 - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
          Saturday, Nov. 3 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

      Interviews: Reporters and photographers welcome
                Call contact to arrange interviews


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