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GOT THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT?

COMCAST’S SEEKING SOLUTIONS WITH SUZANNE

AND HOST SUZANNE ROBERTS

GO FOR THE GOLD IN AUGUST WITH

INSPIRING STORIES OF SENIOR ATHLETES, OLYMPIANS AND MORE

PHILADELPHIA, PA – July 31 – Today’s Olympians are, inevitably, tomorrow’s seniors. And in conjunction with the opening next week of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, Comcast’s Seeking Solutions with Suzanne, helmed by Emmy Award-winning host and creator Suzanne Roberts, visibly illustrates that there is no age limit for Olympic spirit, or striving for the Olympic dream, with a slate of programs featuring the inspirational stories of former Olympians and older athletes who have gone for their own personal gold, conquering everything from the New York Marathon to the summit of Mt. Everest. Plus, viewers will gain valuable tips on how to design a healthy home and disaster preparation. From ageless Olympic spirit to how to prepare for the unexpected, Seeking Solutions jumps into the dog days of August with programs that both inspire and instruct!

Keeping the legacy of Olympic gold alive, on August 10, Suzanne kicks off a week of sports legends with Olympic Alumni, showcasing Rower Ted Nash, who has been part of 10 Olympic teams, either competing or coaching, and Swimmers Mary Jane Parks and Betty Mullen Brey, who both competed in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. After Nash’s U.S. team won the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, he traveled to Tokyo in 1964 to compete, and left with a bronze medal. Soon after, he began his coaching career, and has been coaching Olympic teams ever since, attending 10 Olympics Games either as an athlete or a coach. His career came full circle when, during the 2004 Athens Olympics, Ted acted as Assistant Coach to the U.S. Rowing team, which took home the gold medal.

Swimmer Parks won bronze in the 100-meter butterfly at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and still gets goosebumps about the experience. Today, she stays fit playing racquet sports and golf, and feels it’s an honor to be looked up to and respected as an Olympic athlete, even all these years later. Fellow-Olympian Betty Mullen Brey didn’t begin swimming seriously until age 13, and didn’t begin training for her Olympic dreams until a student at Purdue University. In 1951, she competed on the US team in the Pan America games in Argentina, and finished second, followed by her participation in the Melbourne Games in the freestyle relay. Her teammates fondly referred to her as “mother hen” because at 24, she was considered “old” for an athlete. Betty still competes in the Senior Games and Senior Olympics, where she has won multiple medals.

On August 11, Suzanne visits with Grandma Luge -- Anne Abernathy, who has overcome cancer, broken bones, 12 knee surgeries and a serious head injury to get where she is today. Currently training for her 6th time competing in the Olympics, this dynamic athlete is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest woman ever to compete in the Winter Games! One of the oldest Olympic sports, Anne first got interested in the luge while skiing in Lake Placid, NY, and although only 40 at the time, she was nicknamed "Grandma Luge" in 1993 as recognition that she was "competing in a sport once thought to be reserved for the young." Her story took a dramatic turn when she was seriously injured in January 2001, crashing during the World Cup Race in Altenberg, Germany, which resulted in the loss of three years of memory, as well as seizures and black-outs. Told she would likely never fully recover, she was determined to get well to compete in the Salt Lake City Olympics, which were less than a year away. In true Olympic style, she found a therapy that worked, and just three weeks prior to the Olympics, she qualified to go.

On August 14, Suzanne spotlights the Golden Eight, and discusses some of the trials and tribulations that they have overcome to become such a successful rowing team. As one of the original sports of the modern Olympic Games, the US won the gold medal in the men’s eight at every Olympiad from 1920 until 1956. Requiring pure strength, endurance, harmony, and teamwork unlike any other sport, the “Golden Eight” seem to epitomize such qualities -- eight men in one boat, working in unison to overcome their competition. Not your typical rowing team, the members of the Eight are all over the age of 60, with the average age 77 – yet

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they’ve won 14 gold medals, more than any other boat. Formed at the 1985 international masters’ championship in Toronto, Canada, the men united as an eight-man crew to compete against German and Canadian rowers and won the championship. Six of the eight were from Philadelphia’s Boathouse Row. Dubbed the “Golden Eight” by US Rowing magazine because of their masterful skill, only two members of the original eight remain: Jack Scholl and Dave Challinor. Since 1985 the Golden Eight have seen 42 men on the team who all are renowned rowers, including legends Harold Finigan who rowed more miles on the Schuylkill River than any other person -- around 500 and 1,000 miles for 64 years before passing away in 2005 -- and Sid Salomon, famous for scaling the cliffs of Normandy on D-Day and featured in a book by Stephen Ambrose entitled “D-Day,” and portrayed as a fictional Captain by Tom Hanks in the movie Saving Private Ryan. In 2006, the crew of the Golden Eight rowed for one last time at the 2006 FISA world masters championship in Princeton, New Jersey.

On August 17, Suzanne visits with Ironman, Robert Baker. Initially the conglomeration of three of Hawaii’s toughest races: the 2.4-mile Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the 112-mile Around-Oahu Bike Race, and the 26.2-mile Honolulu Marathon, the original group of 12 out of 15 who completed the course determined that "whoever finishes first we’ll call the Ironman." The lucky inaugural winner was Gordon Haller. Today, some of the fittest athletes in the world crumble under the extreme duress of the grueling three-event race. Dr. Robert Baker first tried his hand at Ironman at the ripe age of 59 and is still out there going strong at 65. Suzanne catches up with him to chat about how his interest in the event began, how he got started running and how he intends to keep on competing.

On August 18, New York Marathon record-holder Ginette Bedard talks with Suzanne about her running career. Bedard won the 2004 USA Track & Field Masters Long Distance Running Award, and has won her age category in 14 of 15 races in 2004. In 2005, she ran the New York Marathon in an astonishing three hours and 46 minutes, setting a record for her age group and also participated in a race up the stairs of the Empire State Building, in which she climbed 1,600 steps in just 22 minutes! She has competed in four marathons, runs between 16 and 18 miles daily, and has never joined a gym. As if that’s not enough, Ginette is 72 years old! Stay tuned as Suzanne sits down with this inspirational woman to discuss what keeps her running.

On August 19, Suzanne meets Leo Kelly and Nancy Norris, to talk about the epitome of “personal best” quests – conquering Mt. Everest. Norris, 61 and a grandmother of 4 is a business owner -- Nancy Norris Fitness Company – where she is an aerobic coordinator, teacher and personal trainer. A certified skydiver and scuba diver, she became interested in rock climbing in the late ‘90s, and after completing a week of “snow school” and a climb in Colorado in 1998, continued to climb several mountains a year. In 2001, she attempted “the ultimate climb”--Mt. Everest, with a goal of reaching all seven summits of the world. If she makes it to the summit of Everest, she will be the oldest North American to do so. Leo Kelly is a 53-year-old chartered accountant and father of four who started climbing over 30 years ago. His son Deryl began climbing with him at age 6, and they’ve been climbing partners

ever since. A veteran of climbs including Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina in 1997, an un-roped climb of Mt. Lefroy in the Canadian Rockies in 1998 and Mt. Victoria the next day, Kelly made his first Everest climb in 2001, as part of the “Emerald Odyssey Mt. Everest 2001” team. While he didn’t make it to the summit, he did get to celebrate his 50th birthday on Mt. Everest, and hopes to make the journey again soon.

From Olympic legends to topics closer to home, Seeking Solutions focuses on tips for making homes healthy and diagnosing “sick houses” during the week of August 3, as well as providing solutions for Disaster Preparedness the week of August 24. During the half-hour segment on August 31, Suzanne talks to Red Cross volunteer Dottie Brier about disaster preparedness for seniors, as well as the symptoms and treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Dr. Andy Morgan, Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University.

Broadcast to more than 20 million viewers with five minute segments airing three times daily on CNN Headline News and a weekly half-hour on CN8 and Comcast Cable systems across the country, and one of the first nationally-televised daily and weekly programs for seniors with a senior host, Seeking Solutions with Suzanne can be seen in its half-hour format at 6 pm, Sundays, on CN8 and on Comcast systems across the country (check local listings), and in its 5-minute version airing three times daily on CNN Headline News in its new time schedule -- 11:55am, 1:55pm and 3:55pm, in more than 20 million homes on Comcast Cable systems nationwide. Seeking Solutions can also be viewed via live web streaming of its weekly, half-hour episodes for the first time, on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET on www.CN8.tv.

For a full August calendar please see http://www.suzanne.tv/search_airdate.asp?viewMonth=82008&thirtymin=0

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A two-time Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award-winner, Suzanne Roberts is a visionary pioneer who, recognizing the dearth of quality television programming for the over 50 audience, created Seeking Solutions in 2000 – and a brand new career for herself at the age of 80. Since its inception, the show has helped to change the landscape of informational television with a landmark product that gives the 50+ population the kind of innovative programming they need and want, which prior to its launch didn’t exist on a national scope anywhere else on the small screen. Aiming to both enlighten and entertain, the show provides ideas, information, tips and insight on topics that impact the older adult audience -- from facelifts to prostate cancer, intergenerational conflict to finance, breaking the rules of aging to weight training – all within the context of an adventurous guide map to making the most out of life, regardless of age.

Hosted by actress, producer and lecturer Suzanne Roberts, Seeking Solutions with Suzanne is a production of Philadelphia-based Stage 3 Productions and is comprised of five-minute segments that air three times daily on CNN Headline News – now at 11:55am, 1:55pm and 3:55pm, and a half-hour show that airs weekly on CN8, The Comcast Network and Comcast Cable systems nationwide. Please check local listings for half-hour episode days and times.

For more information on Suzanne Roberts and Seeking Solutions with Suzanne, call Stage 3 Productions at 215.985.2700 or visit www.suzanne.tv. For information on the programming schedule or for press interview opportunities, please call Nina Zucker Associates at 610.667.0706 or .

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