Market Wire - Media and Entertainment

Atlantic Records: Shinedown Land Their Biggest Debut Ever With "The Sound Of Madness" - July 2, 2008

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Atlantic recording group Shinedown landed the biggest debut of their career today, with "The Sound Of Madness" debuting at 8 on the Billboard 200 album chart. This marks the first Top 10 album of the band's career.
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Newspaper Target Marketing Coalition: Newspaper Target Marketing Coalition (NTMC) Sees Growth During Their Ten Year Anniversary - July 2, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) The Newspaper Target Marketing Coalition (NTMC) today announced that it was offering Affiliate Memberships to firms that serve the newspaper industry. NTMC is responding to increased requests for such membership. Membership will include first priority in event sponsorship opportunities, greater visibility among NTMC members and advertising space in the quarterly newsletter. The first company to be accepted as an Affiliate Member is Nielsen Claritas.
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Ace Marketing & Promotions, Inc.: LONESTAR Launches Proximity Marketing Campaign With ACE Marketing & Promotions at July 3rd Event - July 2, 2008

NASHVILLE, TN (MARKET WIRE) LONESTAR and ACE Marketing & Promotions (OTCBB: AMKT) continue to demonstrate their commitment to technology and the way people consume entertainment by delivering free content, direct to fans' mobile devices via bluetooth and Wi-Fi signals at their July 3rd event in Warner Robins Georgia. All consumers that enable their bluetooth or Wi-Fi device and then voluntarily opt-in to the incoming message, "Do you want to receive an incoming message from LONESTAR" will...
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Warner Bros. Records: Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard to Perform Live at "The Dark Knight" Premiere - July 2, 2008

BURBANK, CA (MARKET WIRE) Two of the world's most renowned composers, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, will be performing together live for the first time, on stage at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square IMAX Theater prior to the world premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Dark Knight" on Monday, July 14, at 7pm.
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CPI Management Services Ltd.: "Laurier Homecoming Presents Russell Peters" Saturday, SEPTEMBER 20th at Kitchener Auditorium - July 2, 2008

WATERLOO, ONTARIO and KITCHENER, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Russell Peters returns to Southern Ontario for his one and only show in the region this year for Wilfred Laurier's Homecoming on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at the Kitchener Auditorium.
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Fisher Communications, Inc.: KOMO 4 Television Wins National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence - July 2, 2008

SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) Fisher Communications (NASDAQ: FSCI) announced today that the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) awarded KOMO-TV, Fisher's ABC affiliated station in Seattle, Washington, the prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence.
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Mariposa Leadership, Inc.: Award-Winning Author, Frances Moore Lappe, to Be Featured Guest on Leadership Forum, Wise Talk, on July 23rd - July 2, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Frances Moore Lappe, award-winning author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and "Getting a Grip," will be the featured guest of Sue Bethanis, executive coach and FounderCEO of Mariposa Leadership, Inc., on her popular leadership forum Wise Talk on July 23, 3pm (PDT). Bethanis and Lappe will discuss how powerlessness can be turned into empowerment, how scarcity can be reframed as abundance, and how courage in the face of fear can lead to hope.
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Merisel, Inc.: Merisel, Inc. Announces Reactivation of Share Repurchase Plan - July 2, 2008

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Merisel, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MSEL) today announced that it will resume its program, originally adopted and announced on August 14, 2006, to make open market repurchases from time to time of up to $2,000,000 of its common stock. The Company suspended the share repurchase program while it investigated merger alternatives and entered into a merger agreement, which agreement was terminated in June 2008. The shares repurchased will be returned to Treasury.
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MetroLyrics: MetroLyrics Tops the Charts - July 2, 2008

BURNABY, BC (MARKET WIRE) MetroLeap Media today announced its flagship site, MetroLyrics (www.metrolyrics.com), has become the most trafficked lyrics site in the world. With more than 22 million unique users per month up from 14 million in December 2007, the site has gone from the number three spot to number one in just six months and is now also among the fastest growing sites on the Internet in many countries, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Australia.
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MusicMagic Productions: Eric Roberts & Friends Live at Kenny's Castaways Courtesy of www.digitalcafetour.com's Live 2.0 Independent's Day - July 2, 2008

DENVER, CO (MARKET WIRE) Guitarist Eric Roberts will be appearing at Kenny's Castaways, 157 Bleecker Street, New York, NY on July 13, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. courtesy of www.digitalcafetour.com's Live 2.0 Independent's Day Virtual Festival. The show will be professionally audio & videotaped by the staff of www.digitalcafetour.com and eventually broadcast on their website and the internet. He will be joined by Grammy nominated bassist Paul Averginos along with percussionist John Marshall, guitarist..
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