The media release just went out for the Kaitz Dinner:

At its 24th annual fund-raising dinner in New York City last night, the Walter Kaitz Foundation raised more than $1.7 million for programs promoting diversity in the cable industry.

More than 1,300 cable industry executives attended the dinner, where U.S. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) and ESPN were honored.  The amount of money raised by the cable industry in support of the Kaitz Foundation exceeded last year’s total by more than $200,000.

You can read the whole thing here.