Britt, Iger, Murdoch and Roberts Headline The Cable Show '09 in Washington, D.C.

Registration for Cable Show '09 is Open

WASHINGTON -- Top media industry leaders, including Glenn Britt, President and CEO of Time Warner Cable; Robert Iger, President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company; Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corporation; and Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast, will speak at The Cable Show '09, the 58th Annual Convention and International Exposition of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) on April 1-3, 2009, at the Washington Convention Center.

NCTA also announced that registration for Cable Show '09 is now open at www.thecableshow.com, and delegates who register by March 6, 2009 will save $100 on regular registration fees.

The Cable Show '09 is the industry's premiere annual convention and kicks off a full week of cable industry events, called Cable Connection Week - Spring, hosted by NCTA and other industry groups in Washington, D.C. In addition to The Cable Show, Cable Connection Week - Spring will feature many other events geared specifically for cable industry professionals, and sponsored by:

* Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau (CAB)

* Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM)

* Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs)

* Cable Positive

* The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC)

* The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE)

* Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT)

Cable Show attendees are also encouraged to book their Washington, DC hotel reservations using The Cable Show '09 housing block, as participating hotels feature discounts on room rates, access to show "room drops," and free shuttle bus transportation to the Convention Center.

Co-Chairs for this year's show are Johnathan Rodgers, President & CEO of TV One, and Michael Willner, Vice Chairman & CEO of Insight Communications.

Additional, up-to-the-minute information for The Cable Show '09 is available at www.thecableshow.com, or from NCTA's Department of Industry Affairs (202-222-2430). For more information about exhibit space at The Cable Show '09, contact NCTA Convention Headquarters at [phone] or e-mail [e-mail].

NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks. The cable industry is the nation's largest broadband provider of high-speed Internet access after investing more than $130 billion over ten years to build a two-way interactive network with fiber optic technology. Cable companies also provide state-of-the-art digital telephone service to millions of American consumers.