Atlantic-Records.com: Atlantic Artists Give The Coats Off Their Backs To Benefit The Needy
In keeping with the spirit of giving come holiday time, a whole slew of Atlantic artists are set to join with New York Cares as partners in the non-profit group's upcoming Coat Drive. Donating their personal coats, as well as raising awareness will be none other than Tori Amos, Brandy , Phil Collins , Michael Crawford , Jewel , Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, Darius Rucker of Hootie &the Blowfish and Rob Thomas of matchbox 20.

LAUNCH Media And EMI Recorded Music Enter Into Online Music Video License
LOS ANGELES, CA -- LAUNCH Media Inc. and EMI Recorded Music announced that they have signed an agreement granting LAUNCH the first worldwide license to stream music videos from EMI's video library over the Internet. With the addition of the EMI collection, LAUNCH.com will now have the most extensive video collection on the Web. In connection with the deal, EMI has received a small equity stake in LAUNCH.

MP3.com: Top Artists Earning Money From Listens On The Net
SAN DIEGO, CA -- MP3.com, Inc. released its first monetary earnings data for artists on the Internet. This data details the payments made to the top ten earners from MP3.com's Payback for Playback promotion for the period 11/1 - 11/30/99. Final earnings are contingent upon an audit. These figures do not include earnings from artist 's CD sales, concerts or merchandise. The program is open to all artists posting music on the net and there is no charge to participate. $200,000 will be distributed in the month of December. [MORE]

General Announcements

Start Wars: New Jedi Order
In October 1999, Del Rey released Vector Prime by R.A. Salvatore, the first of 22 planned novels in a series called The New Jedi Order. For The New Jedi Order, Del Rey and Lucasfilm responded to fan's requests for a well-planned story line overarching the entire series, books released in the chronological order they appear on the timeline, significant and lasting consequences for the heroes, and the ability to follow each book or just selected titles.

San Francisco Giants And Tickets.Com Announce 10-Year Ticketing Agreement For Pacific Bell Park
COSTA MESA, CA -- The San Francisco Giants announced the renewal of its partnership with Tickets.com for ticketing the Giants new home, Pacific Bell Park, which will open in April 2000. As part of this 10-year contract, Tickets.com will facilitate all Giants' ticket sales. Tickets.com will also provide for automated access to the Giants' new state-of-the-art Pacific Bell Park, through its proprietary Access Control 2100's electronic turnstile system.

AOL Announces Three-Year Internet Telephony Agreement With Net2Phone For AOL Instant Messenger
DULLES, VA -- America Online announced a three-year agreement with Net2Phone, Inc. that will provide AOL Instant Messenger users with Net2Phone-powered Internet telephony communications services. Under the terms of the agreement, America Online will work with Net2Phone to create AIM-branded Internet telephony products and services, including an AIM-branded card that offers AIM users low-cost Internet Telephony. These new products and services will bring low-cost, convenient communications services to the more than 37 million AIM users and allow them to place and receive telephone calls in a number of different ways.

Television Newswire

DIRECTV And NHL Announce Exclusive Satellite Distribution Agreement For NHL® CENTER ICE® Package
EL SEGUNDO, CA -- The National Hockey League and DIRECTV, Inc., announced a multi-year extension of their existing agreement to deliver the NHL CENTER ICE subscription package to DIRECTV customers. The agreement grants DIRECTV exclusive satellite distribution rights of the NHL package, which features up to 30 regular-season NHL games a week, through the 2001-02 season. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed. "We have offered NHL CENTER ICE to DIRECTV customers since the 1994-95 season, and our new agreement builds on five years of a successful partnership," said NHL Vice President of Business Affairs &Special Assistant to the COO, Doug Perlman.

COURT TV Sets Monthly Primetime Record Of .6 During November Sweeps Period
NEW YORK, NY -- Court TV continues to build momentum with viewers in 1999, as evidenced by the network's record monthly primetime rating of a .6 posted during the highly competitive November sweeps. The November primetime ratings provided the network with a 500 percent increase over the same period in 1998. In homes delivered, Court TV posted a 386 percent edge over a year ago - 214,000 homes in November '99 versus 44,000 homes in November of '98. Court TV provides a window on the American system of justice through distinctive programming, which both informs and entertains.

Unapix Entertainment's Production, "Totally Out Of Control," To Air On ABC Television Network
NEW YORK, NY -- Unapix Entertainment, Inc. announced that it has signed its first deal with the ABC Television Network, which will air its unique three-part special, Totally Out of Control. The first special will run during the November sweeps period. Totally Out of Control consists of three one-hour programs featuring people, nature, vehicles and events losing control.

Church Of Scientology International
Responding to the jail sentence handed out to a German secret service agent who stood trial on charges of espionage, the President of the Church of Scientology International, Rev. Heber Jentzsch, congratulated the Swiss court for upholding the rule of law and ensuring that the agent paid the penalty for breaking it. The Church of Scientology has established itself as a major religion in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Just this past weekend, the Hamburg Church moved to new, larger quarters right in the heart of the city. A decision this month from the Administrative Court of Stuttgart invalidated an oppressive city government decree meant to block the peaceful practice of Scientology. The court ruled that German case law has unequivocally established that the Church is a religious organization. [MORE]

Movie Newswire

Clear Vision Video's World Wrestling Federation DVDs To Be Protected By Macrovision
LONDON, ENGLAND -- Macrovision UK announced that Clear Vision Video has signed an agreement to use Macrovision Copy Protection on their forthcoming DVD releases. The first two releases in November will be "Wrestlemania 15", the principle event in the WWF calendar and "Steve Austin � Hell Yeah." Ian Allan, Managing Director of Clear Vision Video said, "It was essential that we used the Macrovision process as the only acceptable deterrent to avoid pirating of our DVD titles."

Game Newswire

ExtremeSports.com Carves Out Niche On Web With Generation Y
CAPISTRANO BEACH, CA -� Last spring, Alan Gibby, founder of ExtremeSports.com was approached by a major media company to purchase the domain name he coined and registered several years ago. He knew the time was right to make his move. Extreme sports are hot. So is the attention being given to the millions of people who make up Generation Y. Corporate America is catching on to that, evidenced by the burgeoning amount of programming such as ESPN's X Games or NBC's Gravity Games. For generation Y, a group of kids turned off by traditional advertising and marketing, the net provides a means to reach them - if you are core in your understanding of both the market and the activities that turn them on.