CBS weatherman Dave Price will travel to the Myrtle Beach area during the 53rd annual Sun Fun Festival� to do his weather report for CBS News� �The Early Show.� Price and his television crew will broadcast the weather from the Myrtle Beach Pavilion the morning of Friday, June 4. The announcement was made this week by Michael Pumo, vice president and general manager of WBTW, the local CBS affiliate.

�We worked hard to get CBS to recognize the importance of the Myrtle Beach area and the Sun Fun Festival,� Pumo said. �Through our marketing director, Chuck Spruill, we were able to get Dave Price here during Sun Fun. WBTW is proud and excited that the Sun Fun Festival and the Myrtle Beach area will be featured on every national CBS weather broadcast on the first full day of the festival.� A five-time Emmy Award winner, Price was named weatherman and featured reporter for �The Early Show� in July 2003. Prior to that, he served as the weather anchor/co-host for the morning show on WNYW-TV/Fox 5 in New York. While he was at WNYW, he played a major role in the station�s coverage of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, the crash of American Airlines flight 587, and the war in Iraq.

Other television credits include the syndicated program �Good Day Live,� for which he was a features reporter; WTXF-TV in Philadephia, where he was a reporter and hosted �Good Day Philadelphia�; WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he was morning weather anchor and contributed feature and entertainment stories; and WSEE-TV in Erie, Pa., his first television job, where he was the station�s weatherman.

A native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Price received his bachelor�s degree from Cornell University in 1987 and his master�s degree from Columbia University in 1993. He lives in New York and in 2001 was named one of People magazine's 50 most eligible bachelors.

The 53rd annual Sun Fun Festival is slated June 3-7. This year�s theme is �It�s All About Fun!� The Blue Angels, the flight demonstration squadron for the United States Navy, will headline two air shows. The five-day festival also will include a nighttime air show, the Sun Fun Parade, a two-day sailboat regatta, the Sun Fun Beach Run, beach games, concerts, the Miss Sun Fun and Miss Bikini Wahine pageants, and dozens of other events.

Sponsored by the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, the Sun Fun Festival is the longest running event in Myrtle Beach area history. It is consistently named one of the Southeast Tourism Society�s Top 20 Events. For more information, contact Festivals Manager Holly Tanner at (843) 916-7239 or visit www.myrtlebeachinfo.com.

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Media Contact: Holley Aufdemorte +1 843-916-7218 aufdemh@mbchamber.org