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1308519569 19 The Madison Square Garden Company Launches Action Sports and Lifestyle Division Jun 16, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — <strong style=”mso-bidi-font-weight: normal”><i style=”mso-bidi-font-style: normal”>MSG Action Sports and ASA Entertainment to Produce “Air in the Square” on June 16 in Times Square <strong style=”mso-bidi-font-weight: normal”><i style=”mso-bidi-font-style: normal”>MSG Action Sports Announces Broadcast Partnership with Quiksilver for <strong style=”mso-bidi-font-weight: normal”><i style=”mso-bidi-font-style: normal”>”The Quiksilver Pro new York” in September, 2011

NEW YORK, June 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Madison Square Garden Company announced today that it is launching MSG Action Sports, a division of MSG Sports that will produce a variety of action sports and lifestyle events, properties and television programming. The first event — Air in the Square — will be a MegaRamp(R) ASA Triples BMX and skateboarding competition in Times Square in new York City on Thursday, June 16 from 3:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m., which will be televised nationally on Fox Sports Net. The first ever major free and open to the public skate and BMX event in Times Square will be produced by MSG Action Sports in partnership with ASA Entertainment, a leading producer of action sports events and television programming in the U.S. MSG Action Sports also announced plans to partner with Quiksilver to make MSG Networks and national music network Fuse the official broadcast partners of The Quiksilver Pro new York in September, 2011 in Long Beach, new York.

 Entertainment Announced for All Star GameThe Salt Lake Bees announced today the entertainment lineup for the 24th annual Triple-A All-Star Game and festivities to be held in Salt Lake City. the five-day event begins on July 9 and will conclude with the 2011 Triple-A all Star Game on Wednesday, July 13 at 7 p.m. MST.

As previously announced, the All-Star festivities will kick off with a concert featuring Chris Isaak and Blues Traveler at Spring Mobile Ballpark on Saturday, July 9 at 7 p.m. MST. a fireworks show will follow immediately after the performances.

1308399563 60 Tix Corporation Announces Share Purchases by Employees

STUDIO CITY, CA, Jun 17, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –Tix Corporation (“Tix”) (otcqx:TIXC) (pinksheets:TIXC), a leadingentertainment company providing discount ticketing services andbranded event merchandising, announced today that certain of itsemployees have each separately agreed to purchase an aggregate of1,215,367 shares of Tix common stock from certain existingstockholders. the aggregate purchase price to be paid for all of theshares to be acquired by such purchasers is $2,430,734, or $2.00 pershare, and the sellers have agreed to defer the payment of suchpurchase price in several installments over a five year period. TheCompany believes that these transactions will provide severalimportant benefits to the Company and its stockholders including,among other things, strengthening employee relations and preservingvaluable tax benefits currently available to the Company.

 Guardian Media Entertainment Forges Multi Year Partnership With NBCUniversal to...    LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/      

LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Guardian Media Entertainment, LLC (GME) – a company formed by SLG Entertainment (SLGE), LLC, led by Stan Lee of POW! Entertainment, LLC and NHL Enterprises (NHLE), LP – today announced its unprecedented equity partnership with NBCUniversal (NBCU). NBCU’s equity resulted from an in-kind partnership where it will provide cross-platform media support of ongoing content and product launches for the Guardian Project, which is a Stan Lee superhero franchise that includes 30 superheroes representing each NHL® Club. This robust media inventory, which supplements marketing and promotion from the NHL and its member clubs, will provide a multi-million dollar commitment for the Guardian Project.

1308224842 12 Mood Entertainment releases Jewels latest albumPress Release Source: Mood Media Corporation on Wednesday June 15, 2011, 7:30 am EDT

“The Merry Goes ‘Round,” a collection of children’s songs, will be distributed as part of the Fisher-Price™ Music Series

1308090708 92 Corus Entertainment Receives Toronto Stock Exchange Approval for Normal Course Issuer BidPress Release Source: Corus Entertainment Inc. On Tuesday June 14, 2011, 5:00 pm EDT

TORONTO, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Corus Entertainment Inc. (TSX:CJR.B.toNews) today announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) has accepted the notice filed by Corus of its intention to make a Normal Course Issuer Bid for its Class B Non-Voting Participating Shares through the facilities of the TSX, or any other alternative Canadian trading system.

1307997183 59 Lifeline Live: Your ticket to all thats entertainmentSly Stallone will soon start work on a new film.

Dark Castle Entertainment, IM Global and After dark Films are teaming for director Walter Hill’s upcoming action thriller based on the graphic novel Bullet to the Head, the companies just announced.

Treme’sCarnival episode for this season airs at 9 p.m. Sunday (June 5). while we wait, let’s hit the links: