Bravo TV's Top Chef All Stars Winner to Ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell


ADVISORY, March 30, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Bravo TV's Top Chef All Stars winner will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square.

The winner will be revealed in the season finale that airs on Wednesday, March 30th at 10:00 p.m. ET.

In honor of the occasion, the Top Chef All Stars winner will ring the Opening Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Thursday, March 31st, 2011 - 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET 

Contact:

Tory Brody
(212) 664-5276
Victoria.Brody@nbcuni.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:
Robert Madden
(646) 441-5045
Robert.Madden@NASDAQOMX.com

Feed Information:

The Opening Bell is available from 9:20 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. on AMC3 / C22, 87 degrees West, downlink frequency 4140 vertical. The feed can also be found on Ascent fiber 1623. If you have any questions, please contact Robert Madden at (646) 441-5045.

Radio Feed:

An audio transmission of the Opening Bell is also available from 9:20 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. on uplink IA6 C band / transponder 24, downlink frequency 4180 horizontal. The feed can be found on Ascent fiber 1623 as well.

Facebook and Twitter:

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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at: http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About Top Chef:

They're back and they're ready for redemption – Bravo's Top Chef congregates a dream team of 18 past cheftestants who nearly won the title to return to see if they have what it takes. The 2010 Primetime Emmy Award-winning Top Chef returns to New York City for Season 8 with host Padma Lakshmi and head judge chef Tom Colicchio, alongside judges Gail Simmons and new this season, best-selling author and chef, Anthony Bourdain.

Top Chef offers a fascinating window into the competitive, pressure-filled environment of world-class cookery and the restaurant business at the highest level. The series features aspiring chefs who compete for their shot at culinary stardom and the chance to earn the prestigious title of Top Chef. 

About Bravo TV:

With more breakout stars and critically acclaimed original series than any other network on cable, Bravo's original programming — from hot cuisine to haute couture — delivers the best in food, fashion, beauty, design and pop culture to the most engaged, upscale and educated audience in cable.

Consistently the fastest growing Top 20 ad-supported cable entertainment network, Bravo continues to translate buzz into reality with critically-acclaimed breakout creative competition and docu-series, including the Emmy and James Beard Award-nominated Top Chef, two-time Emmy Award winner Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, the 14-time Emmy nominated Inside the Actors Studio, the hit series Shear Genius, Million Dollar Listing, The Millionaire Matchmaker, and the water cooler sensations that are The Real Housewives. Bravo reaches its unique audience through every consumer touch point and across all platforms on-air, online and on the go, providing the network's highly-engaged fans with a menu of options to experience the network in a four-dimensional manner.

Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with approximately 3,600 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.  NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/nasdaqomx) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx).

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