CORRECTING and REPLACING Clear Channel Outdoor Assists El Paso Police Department in Raising Amber Alert Awareness
First Amber Alert Test on its Digital Billboard Network to be Conducted on Monday, October 29
In the WHEN section of the advisory, the time should be 10:30 a.m. MT (sted 10:30 a.m. CT).
The corrected release reads:
CLEAR CHANNEL OUTDOOR ASSISTS EL PASO POLICE DEPARTMENT IN RAISING AMBER ALERT AWARENESS
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings (NYSE:CCO):
MEDIA ALERT
WHAT: Clear Channel Outdoor will provide vital AMBER (America's
Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert notifications to
the community of El Paso, Texas via its digital billboard
network. Media are invited to join a press conference
announcing the joint effort and testing the new technology.
WHO: Chief Richard Wiles of the El Paso Police Department
V.J. Smith, President of the El Paso division of Clear Channel
Outdoor
Louie Salazar, Account Executive with Clear Channel Outdoor
(for Spanish media)
WHEN: Monday, October 29th 2007 at 10:30 a.m. MT
WHERE: Clear Channel Outdoor's digital billboard property at 1346 Lee
Trevino & Rojas. Parking available in the Bank of America lot.
HOW: The Clear Channel Outdoor Digital Network in El Paso has been
operational for the past five weeks, successfully reaching
over 261,000 El Paso residents daily. The digital billboards
made available for use during Amber Alert activation will
enable law enforcement to disseminate both text information
and any available photographs when a child has been abducted.
Clear Channel Outdoor has successfully joined Amber Alert
networks in Akron, Chicago, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Milwaukee,
Minneapolis and Tampa.
AMBER Alert programs have helped save the lives of 192 children
nationwide. The program began in Texas in 1996 when Dallas-
Fort Worth broadcasters teamed up with local police to develop
an early warning system to help find abducted children, in
memory of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman of Arlington, Texas.
Source: Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings
Released October 26, 2007