MPT Announces Guest Hosts for Wall $treet Week
New Show Scheduled for June Premier

Owings Mills, MD: Maryland Public Television, originator of the long-running PBS series Wall $treet Week, announced today the guest hosts who will anchor Wall $treet Week starting this Friday, March 29 as MPT prepares to launch a new show in late spring. The new show, Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE, will premiere on PBS in June.

The March 29 broadcast will be the first guest-host appearance by Marshall Loeb, the highly-regarded business editor. Other guest hosts will include Ray Brady, former business correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.

"As we continue to develop Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE, we're extremely pleased to present viewers with such distinguished guest hosts as Marshall Loeb and Ray Brady during this interim period. The show will continue to provide viewers with the expertise, perspective, and serious, measured financial journalism they expect and deserve," said Robert J. Shuman, president and CEO of MPT.

"Our viewers have come to expect the highest quality information and analysis, and Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE will deliver. This is going to be a great new configuration of Wall $treet Week," said Mr. Shuman.

Marshall Loeb, 72, began his journalism career as a UPI foreign correspondent in 1952. In the years since, he has served as managing editor of Money, managing editor of Fortune, and business editor and economy editor of Time. Mr. Loeb is a past editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and is currently senior correspondent of CBS MarketWatch. He has earned almost every major award in U.S. business journalism, including the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Distinguished Achievement Award, and has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books. Mr. Loeb, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, is a member of the Board of Overseers of New York University's Stern School of Business.

Ray Brady's economic reporting has taken him all over the world. He has been executive editor of Forbes magazine, associate editor of Barrons, and editor of Dun's Review, the business publication of Dun & Bradstreet. An Emmy Award winner for national reporting, Mr. Brady hosted the award-winning Money Crunch series on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. He has also appeared on other CBS shows, including Sunday Morning, is heard on radio, and has written extensively for the New York Times, Town and Country and Readers Digest. He is a graduate of Fordham University and a former governor of the Financial Writers Association of New York.

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