PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, September 20, 2005

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Tuesday, September 20, 2005

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MTV Announces October as Education Month, Empowering Students to Prepare Themselves for High School and College Success

M-T-V has announced the launch of October as "Education Month" to encourage and empower young people with the tools they need to graduate from high school ready for college and work. The network's think M-T-V: EDUCATION initiative, which is in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is being highlighted on- air every day in October, featuring long- form shows, P-S-A's, M-T-V News segments and other programming. The think M-T- V: EDUCATION initiative responds to recent statistics on the state of education in America. According to the Manhattan Institute, nearly three of ten public school students, and almost half of all African-American and Latino youth, do not graduate from high school. While most students aspire to attend college, only about two-fifths will make it there prepared for college-level work.

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Toni Braxton Returns To Music Limelight

Multiple platinum and Grammy winning superstar Toni Braxton is as eager as her fans to release her sixth studio album Libra, on the Blackground/Universal banner, on September 27th. Joined by star producers such as Scott Storch and Vincent Herbert, the highly anticipated disc faithfully embodies the trademark sense of style and soulfulness that has sparked critics across the globe to cast Toni Braxton in the upper echelon of music divas. "Trippin'," one of the gems from her new album is scheduled to be delivered to multiple radio formats on September 20th. The new song, vibing with a 'classic Toni' temperature, is just one of the many hits on Libra.

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Zagat Survey Releases 2006 Guide to the Top Movies of All Time

Zagat Survey, the world's leading provider of consumer survey-based leisure content, has released its 2006 Movie Guide, a compendium of over 13- hundred fifty of the world's greatest movies. The guide contains ratings and reviews of films from the industry's inception through the 2005 Academy Awards and includes titles ranging from A to Z. The guide is based on the experiences, opinions and preferences of over 12-thousand avid film fans, each of whom sees an average of 2 point 2 movies per week. And with over 65 handy indexes and categories, Zagat Survey's 2006 Movie Guide is the most useful movie guide available.

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More Performers Announced for 'The 39th Annual CMA Awards'

"Country Music's Biggest Night" is getting bigger with the announcement that the two top C-M-A Awards nominees -- Brad Paisley and Lee Ann Womack -- will perform when "The 39th Annual C-M-A Awards" airs live Tuesday, November 15th on C-B-S live from New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. Joining them on the list of performers will be reigning C-M-A Male Vocalist of the Year Keith Urban and C-M-A Awards hosts Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn of superduo Brooks & Dunn.

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