PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, July 21, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, July 21, 2006

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Democrats Increase Lead Over Republicans in Race for Congress Mood of the Nation Still Favors Challenger Campaigns

With mid-term elections now less than four months away, a new Harris Poll finds that Democrats have widened their lead over the Republicans in the race for control of Congress. Results show that if the election for Congress were held today, more than two in five (forty-four percent) adults would vote for the Democratic candidate, while about one-third (thirty-one percent) would vote for the Republican candidate, seventeen percent would vote for someone else, and just seven percent are undecided.

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The Man of Steel and Other Super Heroes Take Flight as Stamps and Stamped Postal Cards

Superman joined Batman, Wonder Woman and seven other comic book legends in extending their immortality to postage Thursday when the U-S Postal Service dedicated the "D-C Comics Super Heroes" commemorative stamps and stamped postal cards. The ceremony took place at the world's largest comic book and pop culture show -- Comic-Con International 2006.

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Six percent of U-S Web Users Have Downloaded Podcasts, Says Nielsen Analytics

More than six percent of U-S adults, or about nine million web users, have downloaded podcasts in the past thirty days, according to The Economics of Podcasting, a report released by Nielsen Analytics, part of V-N-U's Media Measurement and Information Group.

In a first quarter 2006 study, conducted by Nielsen Analytics at Nielsen Entertainment Television testing facilities in Las Vegas, more than one-thousand-seven-hundred participants were surveyed on their podcasting usage. About six percent of respondents described themselves as regular podcast downloaders -- more than seventy-five percent of whom were male. The findings show that a significant percentage, approximately thirty-eight percent, of active podcast downloaders say they are listening to radio less often.

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Sundance Channel Green to Launch on Sundance Channel

Sundance founder, Robert Redford has announced that Sundance Channel will launch SUNDANCE CHANNEL GREEN, a weekly primetime destination block focusing on environmental topics, in early 2007. Consisting of three hours of hosted programming, SUNDANCE CHANNEL GREEN will present original series and documentary premieres about the earth's ecology and concepts of "green" living that balance human needs with responsible environmental stewardship. With SUNDANCE CHANNEL GREEN, Sundance Channel becomes the first television network in the United States to establish a significant, regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment.

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PRNewswire -- July 21

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