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ADVISORY/Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, World Wrestling Entertainment To Announce Partnership to Register Two Million Voters; Monday, Sept. 22.


Entertainment Editors/Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Sept. 22 (Monday Monday: see week. )

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

World Wrestling Entertainment World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events), and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue sources  

    What: Russell Simmons' Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) and
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE(TM))'s Smackdown Your Vote! will
announce a partnership and plans to launch a non-partisan campaign
with the objective of getting two million more 18-to-30-year-olds to
register and cast their votes in the 2004 Presidential election than
did in the Presidential election of 2000.

    Who: Vince McMahon, WWE Chairman
         Russell Simmons, Chairman, Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
         Rev Run of Run-DMC
         Dr. Benjamin Chavis, President and CEO, Hip-Hop Summit Action
         Network
         WWE Superstar and Honorary Smackdown Your Vote Chairman,
         Bradshaw(TM)
         WWE Superstar Maven(TM)
         Veronica De La Garza, Executive Director, Youth Vote
         Coalition

    Where: National Press Club, Peter Lisagor Room
           529 14th Street Northwest, 13th floor

    When: 10 a.m.

    WWE Contacts: Kate Cox, 203-352-8630, Kate.Cox@wwecorp.com
                  Neil Lawi, 203-352-1010, Neil.Lawi@wwecorp.com
                  Jen Sacca, 203-352-8657, Jennifer.Sacca@wwecorp.com
                  Lori Jennings, 202-659-7902,
                  LJenning@apcoworldwide.com

    HSAN Contact: Jody Miller, 212-431-5227, Jody@jlmpr.com
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