PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, October 13, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute and Podcast for Friday, October 13, 2006

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Howard Stern Is Most Popular Talk Radio Personality With Web Users for Sixth Straight Year

SIRIUS Satellite Radio personality Howard Stern has once again topped the annual list of the most-searched talk radio personalities. The 2006 list marks the sixth consecutive year that Stern has been the number one most-searched talk radio personality with web users. The annual list is based on The LYCOS Fifty, an authoritative weekly list of the most popular people, places and things web users search for every day. Stern generated two-hundred-thirty-two percent more online interest than Adam Corolla, who is ranked number two on this year's list.

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Ellen DeGeneres Shows Her Animal Instincts and Makes a Difference With a New Environmental Campaign

Ellen DeGeneres is many things -- comedienne, talk show host, producer, humanitarian. Now she'll add seal to her long list of credits as she helps launch the Dawn Saves Wildlife program and its Web site w-w-w-dot-dawn-saves- wildlife-dot-com.

This year the Dawn Saves Wildlife campaign has set a goal of educating one million people about the importance of saving aquatic wildlife by educating them about simple actions they can take to decrease the amount of oil they put into the environment. Ellen's involvement will include a presence on the Web site where she will encourage people to join her virtual flock, an online community of animals where Ellen will be represented by a seal.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3313048

Stephen King Named Mystery Writers of America's Newest Grand Master

Stephen King, the grand master of suspense and an international best- selling author, has been chosen to receive the highest award bestowed on an individual by Mystery Writers of America: the coveted Grand Master Award. The annual Grand Master Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in the mystery field and was established to recognize not only important contributions to the mystery field over time, but a significant output of consistently high quality as well.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3313037

World's Largest Popcorn Ball Unveiled

How befitting that October, the month that wraps up with Halloween snacks, is also National Popcorn Month, celebrating the seventeen billion quarts of popcorn that Americans consume each year. The Popcorn Factory is celebrating in a record-setting fashion with the unveiling of the World's Largest Popcorn Ball, which is almost ten percent larger than the largest popcorn ball currently on record.

The gargantuan, edible sphere is a whopping eight feet in diameter, approximately twenty-four-point-five feet in circumference and weighs in at three-thousand-four-hundred-fifteen pounds. To put it in perspective, the record-setting ball is almost fifty-thousand times larger than the normal popcorn balls distributed for retail consumption.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3313679

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PRNewswire -- Oct. 13

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