SNY and New York Mets Luminaries to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

ADVISORY, June 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

SNY, the TV home of the New York Mets, Jets and Big East Conference, and New York Mets Luminaries will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Mets organization and the New York Mets All Time Team, which will be unveiled in a live event on Sunday at the 92Y.

To celebrate the occasion, the following SNY executive and NY Mets luminaries will ring the Opening Bell:

• Steve Raab: President of SNY
• Keith Hernandez: Former NY Mets All-Star First Baseman and current SNY analyst
• Ron Darling: Former Mets All-Star Pitcher and current SNY analyst
• Bob Ojeda: Former Mets All-Star Pitcher and current SNY analyst
• Edgardo Alfonzo: Former Mets All-Star Second Baseman

Where:

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

When:

Friday, June 15, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET

Contact:

Andrew Fegyveresi

(212) 485-4841

AFegyveresi@sny.tv

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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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 SNY:

SNY is the official television home of the New York Mets, Jets and the Big East Conference. SNY features unparalleled, exclusive access to the New York Mets with more than 130 live telecasts each season – all produced in HD – as well as other Emmy Award winning Mets entertainment programming.  As the official TV home of the New York Jets, SNY delivers more than 300 hours of exclusive year-round content devoted to Gang Green.  SNY also is the official TV home of the Big East Conference – airing more than 125 Big East football and basketball games – as well as other critically acclaimed Big East programming.  As New York's leader in local sports TV coverage, SNY delivers the most comprehensive access to all of the Tri-State area's professional and collegiate sports teams through five nightly sports and entertainment programs – broadcast in state-of-the-art HD – from SNY's street-level studio in the heart of Manhattan.  SNY's programming roster also includes classic sports programming, critically acclaimed original entertainment shows and exclusive interview and magazine programs.  Founded by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, Time Warner and Comcast, SNY is available to viewers throughout New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania, and nationally on DIRECTV, Verizon FiOS, Comcast Cable and AT&T U-Verse. For additional details on the network, visit www.sny.tv.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the US and Europe, we own and operate 24 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.999% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $5.1 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily.  Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century.  To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500).

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