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Comcast & Time Warner Cable Team Up to Offer Innovative, Student-Created 'TEEN TRUTH LIVE' Film Series to 10 California Schools

Posted on: Friday, 27 March 2009, 13:38 CDT

School Contest to address continuing problems - bullying, violence, drugs and alcohol abuse among youth

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the California Association of Student Leaders Conference, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and TEEN TRUTH LIVE announced the TEEN TRUTH LIVE Contest to an audience of more than 1,200 California high school and middle school students.

In the wake of recent budget cuts in education, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have partnered to offer a unique interactive multi-media presentation to California schools. The program incorporates motivational speeches and student created award winning films in a presentation that will educate students about bullying & school violence, as well as drugs & alcohol abuse.

Through the support of Comcast and Time Warner, TEEN TRUTH will give away 10 free TEEN TRUTH LIVE presentations that will make an impact in the lives of over 10,000 California students.

TEEN TRUTH was created to give students a voice, motivate them to think and empower them to make a difference. It is an award-winning program that has already had a positive impact on students. In a little over two years, the TEEN TRUTH LIVE program has reached 260,000 students across the US and Canada and the films used in the schools have reached over 1.2 million students.

"We have witnessed the transformation in the youth that have participated in the TEEN TRUTH program," stated Erahm Christopher, co-founder of TEEN TRUTH. "Due to the generous contribution of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, we will be able to touch the lives of thousands of California students."

Interested California middle schools and high schools must submit their application form, available on-line at www.teentruthlive.com/ComcastTimeWarnerGiveAWay, by April 20, 2009.

ABOUT:

TEEN TRUTH: TEEN TRUTH is a student-created film series that was developed to give students a voice, motivate them to think, and empower them to make a difference.

TEEN TRUTH LIVE: BULLY and TEEN TRUTH LIVE: DRUGS & ALCOHOL are interactive, multi-media presentations that incorporate motivational speeches with student-created documentary films. The award-winning films focus on social issues that can lead to school violence and drug and alcohol abuse, while the personal speeches challenge students to think about how their reactions to these issues impact the lives of those around them. Ultimately, TEEN TRUTH LIVE inspires the audience to have a positive impact on their peers, in order to make school a safer, healthier, happier place.

COMCAST: Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.2 million cable customers, 14.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content. Comcast's California Region, based in Livermore, California, serves more than 2.4 million customers in Northern and Central California. Comcast employs more than 7,500 local residents across the region.

TIME WARNER CABLE CALIFORNIA:

Time Warner Cable West Region serves Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego Counties, and Hawaii and employs approximately 7,900 local professionals. Leveraging its leadership in innovation, its quality, local customer care and its fiber-rich broadband network, Time Warner Cable delivers advanced products and services including digital cable, video on demand, high-definition television, digital video recorders, high-speed data and digital phone.

Nationally, Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems passing approximately 26 million homes in 33 states. Headquartered in New York City, Time Warner Cable has approximately 13.3 million video subscribers and more than 6.9 million customers who purchase more than one product. Nearly 85 percent of the Company's customers are located in five geographic clusters (New York, Texas, Ohio, the Carolinas and southern California) and includes the nation's two largest cities: Los Angeles and New York.

SOURCE Comcast

Source: PR Newswire

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