MySpace, MTV and AP to Offer Presidential Closing Arguments

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK,
January 29: Social-networking site MySpace and MTV, along with the Associated
Press, have teamed up to offer Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super
Dialogue to a potential audience
of 200 million voters across a wide variety of outlets, including television,
Internet, radio and mobile.

The event will offer
candidates polling above 10 percent a final chance to address the nation before
Super Tuesday, when more than 20 states hold presidential primaries or
caucuses, effectively deciding the Republican and Democratic candidates for the
general election.

The event is part of
MySpace and MTV’s Presidential Dialogue series, and will take place on Saturday, February 2 at 6 p.m. on
several mediums. On television it will be aired by MTV, MTV2 and MTV Tr3s;
online it can be viewed live through MySpace’s Impact Channel, the social
network’s political hub, as well as MTV’s ChooseOrLose.com; on radio via XM
Satellite Radio, MTV and AP Radio; and on mobile phones through MTV Mobile. It
will also be translated to Spanish and broadcast online on ImpreMedia’s
LaVibra. Additionally, the Associated Press will distribute a live feed and
on-demand highlights of the dialogue to the 1,800 media sites in its Online
Video Network; nearly 600 of those are local TV, newspaper or radio sites in
states with Super Tuesday primaries.

Hillary Clinton and Mike
Huckabee are the first confirmed participants. John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy
Giuliani, Barack Obama and John Edwards have all been invited to participate in
the event as well. MTV News correspondents Gideon Yago and Sway Calloway, as
well as WashingtonPost.com political reporter Chris Cillizza will moderate,
joined by a AP political reporter covering the campaign.

Viewers watching online
can also use a polling tool, powered by Flektor, to indicate their approval or
disapproval of candidates’ responses. The poll results will be monitored during
the live broadcast, and will help guide the direction of the forum. Questions
can be submitted in real-time via MySpaceIM, ChooseOrLose.com and from the live
audience in MTV's Times Square studio in New York.

—By Ned Berke