Cox Communications Film Festival Features Nickelodeon Contestant Search August 27.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1998--Cox Communications invites all kids with unusual talents, inventions or collections to participate in a contestant search for Nickelodeon's hit comedy game show, Figure It Out. The search will be held on Thursday August 27 during the Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. Film Festival showing of Nickelodeon's Good Burger at the Embarcadero Marina Park North, behind Seaport Village Seaport Village is a shopping and dining complex overlooking the bay in San Diego, California. It houses more than 70 shops, galleries, and eateries on 90,000 square feet (0 m) of waterfront property. downtown. Figure It Out, airing Monday to Sunday at 6:00 p.m. on Cox Channel 47 (53 North), combines the style of classic game shows from television's golden era with Nickelodeon's own trademark mess. The contestants are real kids who have unique, original and sometimes bizarre talents, inventions or collections. The show features a panel of Nickelodeon stars and special guest celebrities that team up to figure out the contestant's particular talent or accomplishment. The series also boasts Nickelodeon's first female game show host, Olympic champion swimmer Summer Sanders. Among the contestants have been a girl who is a champion cow-chip tosser; a boy who ate 11 pounds of watermelon watermelon, plant (Citrullus vulgaris) of the family Curcurbitaceae (gourd family) native to Africa and introduced to America by Africans transported as slaves. Watermelons are now extensively cultivated in the United States and are popular also in S Russia. in one minute; a girl who sang the National Anthem at the World Series; a boy who is a crawfish crawfish: see crayfish. tickler A manual or automatic system for reminding users of scheduled events or tasks. It is used in PIMs, contact management systems and scheduling and calendar systems. ; and a girl who is a mariachi singer. To be considered, candidates must fax their name, phone number, age, and unique accomplishment to CCFF CCFF Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation CCFF California Custom Fruits and Flavors CCFF Compensatory and Contingency Financing Facility CCFF Cheshire Current Facts and Figures (UK) CCFF Child Care Facilities Fund Marketing at 619/266-5313 by the Monday, August 24 deadline. Entries will be reviewed for qualifications and candidates contacted by phone. Those selected to be part of Nickelodeon's search for contestants will be videotaped in front of a live audience before the August 27 screening of Good Burger. The videotape will go to Figure It Out for final contestant consideration. For information, contact the Cox Communications Film Festival Hotline at 619/221-7301.
CONTACT: Cox Communications
Judith Morgan Jennings, 619/266-5382
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