Digital Dees Broadcasts 24/7 for Katrina Relief

Digital Dees Broadcasts 24/7 for Katrina Relief

Worldwide Radio Personality Rick Dees Joins Salvation Army to Help Mobilize Relief Effort on RICK.COM, Live From Digital Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Radio entertainer and "Weekly Top 40" host Rick Dees has announced the first-ever "DIGITHON" to mobilize and motivate listeners around the world to help in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, to be broadcast live on Monday, September 19, 2005 from the Digital Hollywood's fall conference at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, California.

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"Radio is a personal medium built around the power of community," says Dees. "Through our broadcasts around the world, we intend to motivate the entire global community to join in this massive rebuilding process." Monday's show marks Dees' first live broadcast since March 2004.

The first global "DIGITHON," replete with stars from the music, entertainment, and new media world, will join with live, unplugged performances to be streamed to the world on RICK.COM, with terrestrial syndication of the broadcast being coordinated by Michael Horn of CRN Networks, in conjunction with Dees Entertainment. Says Dees, "I'm proud to note that Monday's digithon will be heard in virtually every city in the world, and that we're unleashing the full force and effect of our IPTV broadcasts to touch the lives of the victims of the costliest natural disaster of this generation in the U.S."

Complete details are available at RICK.COM. For more information, and to learn how you can help, please visit http://www.rick.com/.

About Rick.com

RICK.COM is a highly interactive portal that is designed for visitors worldwide to explore the best new music, video, and games available from both established and emerging artists, along with music from nearly every genre. Reaching a worldwide audience, RICK.COM brings special interactive entertainment to listeners, including DDN -- "The Dees Digital Network," "Dees on Demand," "Dees Club," and "Dees Sleaze," along with fresh new movie clips and trailers from an array of new films and music videos from today's hottest artists. The site features the same unique imprint that established the name Rick Dees with audiences worldwide. For more information, go to http://www.rick.com/.

About The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army, an evangelical part of the universal Christian church, has been supporting those in need in His name without discrimination since 1865. Nearly 33 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through the broadest array of social services that range from providing food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless and opportunities for underprivileged children. About 83 cents of every dollar raised is used to support those services in nearly 9,000 communities nationwide. For more information, go to http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/.

About Digital Hollywood

Since 1990, over forty thousand top industry executives have attended Digital Hollywood in Los Angeles, New York, San Jose and in Las Vegas, including representatives of every major studio, technology company, cable, satellite and communications company and retailer, as well as content developers and programmers for all entertainment industry medias and market. For more information, see http://www.digitalhollywood.com/.

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CONTACT: Lori Lousararian, +1-310-854-8104, llousararian@rogersandcowan.com, or Karen Sundell, +1-310-854-8167, ksundell@rogersandcowan.com, both of Rogers & Cowan, for RICK.COM; or Liz Laud of DIAL-GLOBAL, +1-310-625-9753

Web site: http://www.digitalhollywood.com/

Web site: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/

Web site: http://www.rick.com/

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