A Few Releases For You

I have some releases on this Wednesday morning. Let's start with TNT and NBA.com which will unveil an all decade feature starting this week.

TNT Unveils ‘TNT All-Decade NBA’ Showcase to Determine NBA’s Greatest in the Past 10 Years

Network to Debut Nominees Each Thursday; Fans to Select Winners on NBA.com

TNT, home of Thursday night exclusive doubleheaders and the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, announced today a weekly showcase of nominees in 13 categories for its ‘TNT All-Decade NBA’ list which will include the top performances, games and moments throughout the 2000’s. The network will announce one category’s nominees each week on TNT’s Emmy® Award-winning Inside the NBA beginning this Thursday, Nov. 19 when it unveils the nominees for ‘Individual Performance: NBA Playoffs’. Following TNT’s announcement of the nominees, fans can vote on NBA.com for whom they think should win. The ‘TNT All-Decade NBA’ winners will be announced in a special one-hour show airing during TNT’s exclusive coverage of NBA All-Star Saturday Night on Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. (ET).

NBA.com will launch a ‘TNT All-Decade NBA’ mircosite that will feature clips of each nominee and a compilation of data and statistics. Following the announcement of the nominees and input from TNT’s studio team of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, fans can then re-watch the clips on NBA.com and place their vote. Voting will remain open from the time the nominees are announced until the winners are unveiled during NBA All-Star Weekend in Dallas. Each category will feature six nominees as determined by Turner Sports.

The NBA Player of the Decade nominees will be selected through a vote by TNT’s NBA announcers and unveiled during the ‘TNT All-Decade NBA’ show on NBA All-Star Saturday Night. Fans can vote on the All-Decade player until Sunday, Feb. 14 when it will be announced prior to TNT’s exclusive coverage of the 2010 NBA All-Star Game.

The ‘TNT All-Decade NBA’ Categories:

1 - November 19: Individual Game: NBA Playoffs

2 - November 26: Playoff Game

3 - December 3: Playoff Dunk

4 - December 10: Playoff Defense

5 - December 17: Individual Drama: NBA Playoffs

6 - December 31: Buzzer Beater: NBA Playoffs

7 - January 14: Playoff Series

8 - January 21: Individual Performance: Regular Season

9 - January 28: Buzzer Beater: Regular Season

10 - February 4: Regular Season Posterization

11 - February 8: All-Star Game Play

12 - February 11: All-Star Saturday Night Dunk

13 - February 12: Player of the Decade

Fox Soccer Channel will resume its coverage of the UEFA Champions League next week.

FOX SOCCER CHANNEL FEATURES TWO HIGH-STAKES REMATCHES DURING UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCHDAY 5

Los Angeles, CA (November 17, 2009) – Fox Soccer Channel continues its live UEFA Champions League Group Stage coverage with Matchday 5, featuring a double-dose of rematches between Italian and French powerhouses.

The world’s most prestigious club soccer competition resumes Tuesday, Nov. 24 on Fox Soccer Channel with the live 30-minute UEFA Champions League Pregame at 2 p.m. ET, simulcast on FSN. Following a breakdown of all the day’s up-coming action from host Max Bretos and analysts Warren Barton and Bobby McMahon, ACF Fiorentina hosts Olympique Lyonnais in a battle for the top spot in Group E, live at 2:45 p.m. ET. Thanks in part to a 1-0 September shutout of Fiorentina, Lyon has secured advancement into the knockout stage of the competition, while the Italian side needs a Matchday 5 victory to guarantee their place in the next round.

On Wednesday, Nov. 25, AC Milan hosts Olympique de Marseille in a rematch that will advance the winner to the knockout stage. In September, AC Milan opened the tournament with a key 2-1 road win in Marseille. This telecast will also begin with UEFA Champions League Pregame at 2 p.m. ET.

Comprehensive coverage of every UEFA Champions League Group Stage match is available to U.S. viewers for the first time ever, thanks to a unique content-sharing agreement between Fox Soccer Channel, FSN, Fox Sports en Español, Setanta Sports and DirecTV. For a complete telecast schedule visit championsonfox.com, where links to live online video streaming of all UEFA Champions League contests are also accessible. Available on a subscription basis for $14.95 per month or $99.95 for a season pass, matches can also be purchased individually for $9.95 each.

WHAT: Live Coverage of UEFA Champions League Group Stage

Matchday 5 on Fox Soccer Channel

WHEN: Tuesday, November 24

ACF Fiorentina (ITA) v Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) 2:45 p.m. ET

(Coverage begins with UEFA Champions League Pregame at 2 p.m. ET)

Wednesday, November 25

AC Milan (ITA) v Olympique de Marseille (FRA) 2:45 p.m. ET

(Coverage begins with UEFA Champions League Pregame at 2 p.m. ET)

*For a complete telecast schedule, visit championsonfox.com

WHERE: Fox Soccer Channel, America’s Soccer Network

HOW: Fox Soccer Channel is available through affiliated cable systems, and through DirecTV and Dish Network satellite providers. For more information, visit Fox Soccer Channel online at foxsoccer.com.

And Sirius XM Radio unveils the nominees for Tony Stewart's "Stewie" Awards that will be "handed out" in December on Sirius NASCAR radio.

TONY STEWART AND SIRIUS XM RADIO ANNOUNCE NOMINEES FOR THIRD ANNUAL ‘STEWIE AWARDS’

“The Stewies” will be presented live December 3 from the Rio Las Vegas during NASCAR Champions Week

NEW YORK – November 17, 2009 - SIRIUS XM Radio and two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart announced today the nominees for the third annual ‘Stewie Awards,’ honoring the most memorable moments of the 2009 NASCAR season.

The ‘Stewies,’ which first debuted in 2007, will be awarded during a live broadcast hosted by Stewart and Matt Yocum from the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, December 3 (10:00 pm – midnight ET / 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PT). The live broadcast will air on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, available to listeners nationwide on SIRIUS channel 128 and XM channel 128 with the “Best of SIRIUS” programming package.

The two-hour event will feature live interviews with the 2009 champion and other drivers in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, plus other special guests. Celebrity Robin Leach will serve as the show announcer.

Fans can determine the 2009 ‘Stewie Award’ winners by casting their votes online at www.sirius.com/stewieawards.

The 2009 ‘Stewies’ nominees are:

“Feels Like The First Time” Award – Recognizing the most notable “first” of the NASCAR season.

• Matt Kenseth wins the Daytona 500 for owner Jack Roush. (Feb. 15)
• Brad Keselowski wins first Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega. (Apr. 26)
• David Reutimann wins first Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte. (May 25)
• Joey Logano wins first Sprint Cup Series race at Loudon. (Jun. 28)
• Kevin Harvick gets first win in his own Nationwide Series car. (Mar. 21)
• Tony Stewart gets his first owner/driver win in Sprint All-Star Race. (May 16)

Best Original Drama – Honoring the year’s most dramatic moment or sequence.

• Stewart-Haas Racing’s exemplary inaugural season.
• 50-year-old Mark Martin makes the Chase in his first year with Hendrick Motorsports.
• Kyle Busch dominates the Dickies 500 at Texas (Nov. 8) by leading a race-high 232 laps but runs out of gas with three laps to go and finishes 11^th.
• Jimmie Johnson runs out of gas on the final lap at Michigan (Aug. 16), handing the win to Brian Vickers.
• Danica Patrick’s on-again, off-again relationship with NASCAR.

Best Original Comedy – Honoring the year’s most entertaining “incident.”

• Denny Hamlin vs. Brad Keselowski: Keselowski spins Hamlin into the wall late in NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Dover (Sep. 26). After the race, crews from both teams get into a pit road skirmish.
• Tom Logano vs. Greg Biffle: Angry that Greg Biffle forced his son, Joey, into the wall at Fontana (Oct. 10), Tom Logano flips off Biffle as he heads to Victory Lane.
• Humpy Wheeler vs. Bruton Smith: Angry that he didn’t get a personal invitation to attend the Charlotte races from former boss Bruton Smith, Humpy Wheeler attends the Indianapolis 500 instead and made his feelings known about Smith. The two continue to exchange words in the media for days over the circumstances of Wheeler’s departure from Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
• Carl Edwards vs. a frisbee: Edwards breaks his foot playing frisbee two races into the Chase and uses the injury to plug his sponsor, Aflac, in a press release.

Best Vocal Performance – Honoring the year’s most memorable quote (Visit www.sirius.com/stewieawards to hear audio of nominees)

• Kyle Busch tells “Junior Nation” that he’d rather win races than sell the most t-shirts at Bristol. (Mar 22)
• Michael Waltrip tackles 5^th Grade U.S. History on FOX’s “Are You Smarter Than A 5^th Grader?” (Oct. 27)
• Tony Stewart “in awe” of Jeff Gordon post-race at Kansas. (Oct. 4)
• President Barack Obama welcomes NASCAR to the White House. (Aug. 19)
• Inaugural Class of NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees announced by NASCAR Chairman & CEO, Brian France. (Oct. 14)

Smokey Yunick Award (Best Engineering and Special Effects) – Acknowledging the year’s most creative modifications to a race car.

• Carl Long gets penalized for oversized engine during Sprint All-Star weekend. (May 16)
• Robby Gordon’s rear axle housing exceeds the maximum specified toe of plus or minus one degree at Coca-Cola 600. (May 24)
• After finishing 5th in the Sylvania 300 (Sep. 20), Kyle Busch gets penalized after the left front of the #18 Toyota is too low in post-race inspection.
• Martin Truex, Jr. finishes 16^th in the LifeLock 400 (Jul. 11) but fails post-race inspection when right rear quarter panel is too high. Four months later, in the Dickies 500 at Texas (Nov. 8), Truex finishes 14^th but fails post-race again for being too low.
• Honorable Mention: Mark Martin’s #5 and Jimmie Johnson’s #48 cars for NOT being illegal, yet causing a media frenzy in September of 2009 after being warned by NASCAR that they were “getting too close to the tolerance limits” set forth by NASCAR.

Bonehead Move of the Year Award

• Jimmy Watts, gasman for Marcos Ambrose, gets suspended for four races after running onto the infield grass to retrieve a loose tire during the Kobalt Tools 500. (Mar. 8)
• Juan Pablo Montoya, despite holding a commanding lead all day, commits a speeding penalty during pit a stop in the Allstate 400 causing him to lose the race. (Jul. 26)
• Kyle Busch destroys his Nationwide Series guitar/trophy at Nashville in true “rock star fashion.” (Jun. 6)
• Jeremy Mayfield’s entire 2009 season (on and off the track).

‘I Got Dumped’ Award – Acknowledging the year’s most memorable on or off-track bumping

• Marcos Ambrose loses NAPA Auto Parts 200 Nationwide Series race in Montreal on last lap to Carl Edwards by misjudging final turn. (Aug. 30)
• Tony George leaves Hulman-George Companies (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) after 20 years as President & CEO.
• After Dale Earnhardt, Jr. goes winless since June 15, 2008, Tony Eury, Jr. is released as crew chief for the #88 and is replaced by Lance McGrew.
• Kyle Busch ends up in the wall on the final lap of the Coke Zero 400 (July 4) after slight contact with Tony Stewart. Stewart gets his 2^nd points win of the year but says, “that’s not the way I wanted to do it.”
• Despite 12 of Kyle Busch’s 16 Cup Series wins coming in the last two years, Steve Addington is ousted as crew chief for the #18 and replaced by Dave Rogers.

Hal Needham Award (Best Stunt Sequence) – Acknowledging the year’s most spectacular crash

• Carl Edwards wrecks on the final lap at Talladega in the spring (Apr. 26) and sends the car flipping into the catch fence. Edwards gets out of car and runs across finish line to complete the race.
• Ryan Newman wrecks at Talladega in the fall (Nov. 1) and the car lands on Kevin Harvick’s hood. After being freed from the car Newman walks away.
• Joey Logano flips 7½ times on Lap 32 at Dover (Sep. 27). Post-race, an unharmed Logano says, “It was the wildest ride I've ever been on."
• Lap 61 coming out of Turn 9 at Watkins Glen (Aug. 10), Kasey Kahne and Sam Hornish Jr. tangle causing a multi-car crash.

Best Driver2Crew Chatter Exchange – Acknowledging the year’s most memorable driver-to-pit crew communication (Visit www.sirius.com/stewieawards to hear audio of nominees)

• Roger Penske puts Kurt Busch in line at Martinsville. (Mar. 29)
• Spotter Jeff Dickerson to Kyle Busch at Las Vegas: "Say goodnight, Gracie." (Mar. 1)
• Juan Pablo Montoya penalized by NASCAR at Indy for speeding on pit lane. (Jul. 26)
• Kurt Busch’s love/hate relationship with his team in 2009. (Montage from 2009 season)

Golden Stewie Award – Chosen by Stewart and Yocum and honoring a legendary driver from the Golden Era of racing, the winner of this award will be revealed the night of the event

“Stewie” Lifetime Achievement Award – Chosen by Stewart and Yocum, the winner of this award will be revealed the night of the event

Stewart and Yocum hosted their critically-acclaimed show, Tony Stewart Live, on SIRIUS XM Radio from 2007 through 2008. Prior to the 2009 NASCAR season, Stewart announced he would be partnering with Haas Automation to form a new Sprint Cup team, Stewart-Haas Racing, where he would be an owner and driver.

SIRIUS XM is the Official Satellite Radio Partner of NASCAR, broadcasting every NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race live on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, channel 128, the only radio channel dedicated to NASCAR 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

That's it for now.