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NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE

Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver

For Immediate Release:
January 22, 2007

MEDIA ADVISORY

Joint Legislative Public Interviews Of State Comptroller Candidates


Date:

Time:

Location:


Tuesday, January 23, and Wednesday, January 24

9:30 a.m.

Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building
Albany


Television news outlets that plan to cover the Legislature's public interviews of state comptroller candidates should be aware that Hearing Room B will be re-configured to accommodate the proceedings. Several options will be provided in the room to meet the needs of TV crews working in the limited space available, including:

  • a clean feed, with video and audio access, of the proceedings;

  • a designated news camera area to setup on a first-come-first-serve basis;

  • the use of ushers to provide an area on the rostrum for cameras to video tape the candidates and audience for limited periods of time; and

  • airing the interviews live on the Legislative Channel (subject to a brief interruption by the regularly scheduled broadcast of the Senate session) that is available to digital cable subscribers across the state (see channel listings below), as well as on the Internet via each house's respective Web sites: assembly.state.ny.us and senate.state.ny.us

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Note: Below are cable system and channel listings as well as comptroller candidates

New York State Legislative Proceedings
Cable System With Channel

Cable System Franchise Channel
Time Warner Albany 582
Time Warner New York City NYC (Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond) 156
Time Warner Hudson Valley / Liberty Liberty, Mt. Vernon, Newburgh 156
Time Warner Syracuse Baldwinsville, Carthage, Champlain, Cortland, Fulton, Ithaca, Malone, Massena, Ogdensburg, Oswego, Potsdam, Rome/Oneida, Illion/Hamilton, Syracuse, Watertown 131
Time Warner Rochester 120
Time Warner Binghamton 1010

Cablevision NYC (Bronx, Kings Co.) Cross River, Dutchess, Ossining, Port Chester, Ramapo, Rockland, South Westchester, Wappingers Falls, Warwick, Yonkers, Yorktown North and South, Brookhaven, Great Neck, Hauppauge, Lawrence / Lynbrook, Long Island and Riverhead 116

Time Warner Olean 119
Time Warner Lackawanna 118
Time Warner Penn Yann 116
Time Warner Utica 116
Time Warner Auburn 90
Time Warner Dunkirk 118
Time Warner Westfield 118
Time Warner Buffalo 118
Time Warner Glens Falls 168

Mid-Hudson Cablevision 108

Charter Cable Plattsburgh 100

TUESDAY SESSION I WEDNESDAY SESSION I

  1. William J. Mulrow

  2. David R. Hancox

  3. Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.

  4. Alexander B. Pete Grannis

  5. Andrew S. Eristoff

  1. Thomas P. DiNapoli

  2. Richard L. Brodsky

  3. Martha E. Stark

  4. Andrew A. SanFilippo
TUESDAY SESSION II WEDNESDAY SESSION II

  1. Martin E. Connor

  2. Arthur Bechhoefer

  3. Howard S. Weitzman

  4. Philip J. LaTessa

  5. Joseph D. Morelle

  1. George J. Nadel

  2. James L. Larocca

  3. Felix W. Ortiz
* The Senate and Assembly Fiscal committees will vote on whether to interview James E. Cheney who submitted material after the noon deadline on Friday, January 19. If the candidacy of this individual is accepted, he will be interviewed at the end of the second Wednesday session.

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