PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, January 20, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, January 20, 2006

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'Brokeback Mountain' is #1 Movie in America

Demonstrating its clear-cut filmgoer appeal worldwide, Focus Features' "Brokeback Mountain" has ascended to the top of the national domestic boxoffice, and is also off to a chart-topping start in its first overseas engagements in the U-K and France. The breakout business follows the film's four Golden Globe Award wins earlier this week (more than any other film) and nine BAFTA Award nominations (including Best Film) on Thursday.

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Six Flags Announces That Its Parks Will be Smoke-Free Environments

Six Flags has announced a new company policy under which its theme parks across the country will become smoke-free environments. This measure is the newest element in the company's commitment to improving the family entertainment experience throughout the Six Flags system.

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American Idol Season Premiere Sets Ratings Records

Nineteen Entertainment Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of C-K-X, Inc. announced that American Idol's fifth season premiere, which aired this past Tuesday night from eight to ten P-M on the FOX broadcasting network, gave FOX its highest rated night ever for entertainment programming among Total Viewers. The season premiere, which was the most watched television show of the night, was the highest rated American Idol premier yet among Adults eighteen to forty-nine, Adults eighteen to thirty-four and Total Viewers, registering an increase of nine percent, three percent and six percent respectively over last year's premiere performance.

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One-Third of Sales Workers Plan to Leave Their Jobs in 2006, CareerBuilder.com Survey Finds

One-in-five sales workers are not happy in their current positions and thirty-three percent say they plan to change jobs by the end of the year, according to a recent CareerBuilder-dot-com survey. Workers cite dissatisfaction with pay, increased workload and the lack of career advancement opportunities as the leading factors influencing their decisions to look for new opportunities this year.

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iTunes Reaches 14 Percent of Active Internet Universe, Skyrocketing 241 Percent Year-Over-Year, According to Nielsen//NetRatings

Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market research, announced that traffic to Apple's iTunes Web site and use of the iTunes application has skyrocketed two hundred forty one percent over the past year, from six-point-one million unique visitors in December 2004 to twenty- point-seven million in December 2005, reaching nearly fourteen percent of the active Internet population.

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PRNewswire -- Jan. 20

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