WXYZ-TV Goes Cruisin' Down Memory Lane With Exclusive Coverage of the Woodward Dream Cruise Presented by Chevrolet, Saturday, August 20th, 7-9 P.M.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WXYZ-TV will broadcast exclusive coverage of the 17th annual Woodward Dream Cruise presented by Chevrolet on Saturday, August 20th.  Coverage of the world's largest one-day automotive celebration revs up with a 2-hour live special from 7-9 p.m.   An encore presentation will air on Sunday, August 21, from 8-10 a.m.  

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Channel 7 will bring all the cruising classics to viewers from locations up and down historic Woodward Avenue.  WXYZ Action News Anchors, Stephen Clark and Diana Lewis, will host the program from the WXYZ home base on Woodward Avenue near Duggan's Restaurant in Royal Oak.  The show will also include reports from Carolyn Clifford, Mary Conway, and JoAnne Purtan.  Dave Rexroth will be capturing all the action along Woodward Avenue in the Chevy Car Cam.  Action News Morning Team members Vic Faust, Alicia Smith and Erin Nicole will be on the north end of the cruise route in Pontiac, with cruising classics and a special Dream Cruise surprise.

"At Channel 7, we recognize the unique passion we have for our cars in Metro Detroit," said WXYZ-TV Vice-President and General Manager Ed Fernandez.  "We're proud to be the exclusive television partner of the Woodward Dream Cruise by Chevrolet.  Channel 7 has been part of this amazing event since its earliest days and we're honored to join the communities along Woodward Avenue to once again help Metro Detroit celebrate its rich automotive heritage."

WXYZ-TV joins Berkley, Royal Oak, Ferndale, Pleasant Ridge, Huntington Woods, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Pontiac, radio partner 104.3 WOMC, and presenting sponsor Chevrolet, to provide bumper-to-bumper coverage of the Woodward Dream Cruise presented by Chevrolet throughout the week leading up to the Saturday event.  The Woodward Dream Cruise attracts over 1.5 million visitors and 40,000 muscle cars, street rods, custom, collector and special interest vehicles.

WXYZ-TV is part of Scripps Media, Inc., which operates 10 TV stations. The corporate parent, the E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) is a diverse, 131-year old media enterprise with interests in television stations, newspapers, local news and information Web sites, and comics/features syndication.  For a full listing of Scripps media companies and their associated Web sites, visit http://www.scripps.com/.

SOURCE WXYZ-TV