Bank of America Makes Entry Into Motorsports by Announcing Two Major Sponsorship Agreements

Bank of America Makes Entry Into Motorsports by Announcing Two Major Sponsorship Agreements

WHAT: Bank of America today marked its entry into motorsports by announcing an agreement with Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) to serve as title sponsor of the Bank of America 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, NC. The agreement with SMI also entitles Bank of America to be an official sponsor of five SMI raceways throughout the country. Bank of America also announced an agreement with Turner Sports to be the presenting sponsor of the "Countdown to Green" pre-race program which airs on NBC's and TNT's national broadcasts.

Bank of America National Market President Graham Denton and Global Marketing Officer Cathy Bessant, SMI Chairman & CEO O. Bruton Smith and Chief Operating Officer H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, TNT personalities Wally Dallenbach and Marty Snider, and NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne will announce the agreements during a press conference at Bank of America's Corporate Center at 11:30 a.m. ET today. Video of event is available.

WHEN: Wednesday, June 29th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

SATELLITE COORDINATES: Satellite: Intelsat Americas 6C (formerly Telstar 6) Orbital slot: 93 degrees West Transponder: 13 (analog in the clear) Bandwidth: 36 MHz Downlink frequency: 3960 MHz Polarization: Vertical Audio subcarriers: 6.2 & 6.8 MHz

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT SUZANNE KIMELMAN AT 646.295.5133 OR SKIMELMAN@MWW.COM JOE GOODE AT 617.346.4830 OR JOSEPH.L.GOODE@BANKOFAMERICA.COM

Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving 33 million consumer relationships with more than 5,800 retail banking offices, more than 16,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than twelve million active users. Bank of America is the No. 1 overall Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in the United States and the No. 1 SBA lender to minority-owned small businesses. The company serves clients in 150 countries and has relationships with 98 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 85 percent of the Global Fortune 500. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE:BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

PRNewswire -- June 29

Source: Bank of America

Web site: http://www.bankofamerica.com/

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