'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' and AOL Launch 'Wish You Were Here'

'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' and AOL Launch 'Wish You Were Here'

Ellen and AOL Invite Viewers to Visit Ellen.AOL.com and Share What Makes Their Town So Special; Ellen Will Broadcast From Selected Town in December 2007

BURBANK, Calif., and DULLES, Va., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and AOL announced today the launch of a cross-platform program, "Wish You Were Here." Visitors to ellen.aol.com can share photos, videos and stories about the entertaining people, places and events that make their hometowns special. The submissions will be featured on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (check your local listings) and the website.

Over the course of the ten-week program, fans will have the opportunity to showcase their hometown pride by visiting Ellen's AOL site and uploading their own stories, photos and videos, each detailing why Ellen should come visit the town. Ellen will showcase some of these submissions on her show, culminating with a special visit from "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to a selected hometown.

"Everybody's always asking me to come to their hometown. I really appreciate it. I haven't been able to do it in the past because I've been learning how to play the pan flute and that takes a lot of practice, practice, practice. But this year I'm gonna visit somebody's hometown," said Ellen DeGeneres. "We're partnering up with AOL and we're calling it, 'Wish You Were Here.' You just have to go to ellen.aol.com and tell me what's great about where you live."

"We are thrilled to team up with 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' to create this unique interactive online program," said Bill Wilson, EVP of Programming at AOL. "By creating a place where Ellen's fans can easily share their stories, pictures and videos about their hometowns, 'Wish You Were Here' gives people a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to connect with Ellen and with each other."

About "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is the only talk show in the history of the Daytime Emmys to win four consecutive awards for Outstanding Talk Show in its first four seasons, and recently won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for the third year in a row. The show has now earned a total of 21 Daytime Emmy Awards. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" premiered on September 8, 2003 and was the highest-rated freshman syndicated show of the 2003-2004 season. Originating from NBC Studios in Los Angeles, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" is produced by A Very Good Production and WAD Productions, Inc. in association with Telepictures Productions, an industry leading and Emmy award-winning producer of syndicated programming, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

About AOL

AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC is based in Dulles, Virginia. AOL and its subsidiaries also have operations in Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.

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Source: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

CONTACT: Ellen contacts, Laura Mandel, Vice President\Publicity for
Telepictures Productions, +1-646-728-4845, Laura.Mandel@warnerbros.com or Amy
Prenner, Publicist for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", +1-818-260-5674,
Amy.Prenner@ellentv.com; or Kurt Patat, Senior Communications Manager for AOL,
+1-212-652-6323, kurt.patat@corp.aol.com

Web site: http://ellen.aol.com/

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