For Immediate Release
Contact: Samantha
O'Lenick or Stacy Heckman
Florida Hospital Media Relations:
407/303-1917
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DISCOVERY
HEALTH CHANNEL TO BROADCAST LIVE FROM FLORIDA HOSPITAL ORLANDO DURING 10-HOUR
BIRTHDAY LIVE! TELEVISION EVENT- Unprecedented 10-Hour Marathon Airs Monday February 17, 2003 from 4 PM to 2 AM -
January 30, 2003 - Orlando,
FL - On Monday, February 17, Discovery Health Channel will broadcast live
the labor, delivery and birth of babies from three medical centers across the
country, including The Baby Place at Florida Hospital Orlando, which will be
the "headquarters" for the live event.
The 10-hour BIRTH DAY LIVE! television marathon, will chronicle deliveries of
all kinds, from Caesarian sections and natural childbirth to premature and high
risk. But bringing in a live show of this magnitude doesn't happen without a
massive production team. Discovery Health Channel will be bringing in more than
40 crew members from all over the country, three production semi-trucks, one
satellite truck, power generators, and much more. Developed in partnership with
the March of Dimes, the Discovery Health Channel event will follow patients,
doctors, and nurses at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Hutzel Women’s Hospital
in Detroit, and Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix.
Award-winning journalist and author Mary Alice Williams will anchor the event
from Florida Hospital Orlando, interviewing related medical experts while regularly
turning over coverage to correspondents stationed at each hospital. Discovery
Health medical director Dr. Andrea Pennington will also report live from Florida
Hospital with updates and interviews with the families, doctors and nurses involved
in the deliveries being filmed that day.
Discovery Health Channel is a 24-hour health channel from the people who also
bring you the Discovery Channel (www.discoveryhealth.com).
Local viewers can watch the BIRTHDAY LIVE! event on Time Warner Cable channel
163.
For more information on this exciting, live event, please contact Florida Hospital Media Relations at (407) 303-1917.
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