COMEDY CENTRAL To Air Four Days Of Programming In Celebration Of The Thanksgiving Holiday
48 Hourly Codes To Appear On-Air, Prompting Viewers To Enter Sweepstakes On Thanxgiveaway.com
Grand Prize Winner To Receive A Tricked-Out Scion xB With A Nintendo Wii Console And More
48 Winners Will Be Awarded A Wii From Nintendo, A Copy Of “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” And A Canon(R) Powershot Camera
NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ — COMEDY CENTRAL is sweeping viewers away for a real holiday break during Thanxgiveaway Wiikend. This year, COMEDY CENTRAL teams up with Wii and Scion xB to give one lucky Grand Prize winner the keys to a brand new, tricked-out Scion xB, $5,000 in cash and a brand new Canon(R) PowerShot camera. COMEDY CENTRAL will also give away 48 hourly prize packages including a Wii console and more. And one lucky winner will take home a 49th bonus prize pack!
From Thursday, November 27 through Sunday, November 30, COMEDY CENTRAL will air a mix of programming to celebrate the network’s Thanxgiveaway Wiikend. Viewers need to stay tuned because a different code will appear approximately every hour, giving fans a chance to win 48 prize packages and a shot at the grand prize. By logging onto www.comedycentral.com/thanx, viewers can enter the codes to become eligible for all the prizes. Viewers can also text ENTER to 44686 for a chance to win a bonus 49th prize pack. The sweepstakes entry period will end December 7.
COMEDY CENTRAL will celebrate this year’s Thanxgiveaway Wiikend with its first-ever “Thanxgiveaway 2008 Retail Tailgate.” Viewers can spend the weekend curbside at NorthSouth Mall for team coverage of the most highly-anticipated retail event of the year. COMEDY CENTRAL’s broadcast studio will be home base, as hosts throw to a field reporter in the mall parking lot. And the coverage will be epic, from the tailgate turkey cook-outs to the hard-hitting, head-to-head, winner-take-mall mayhem when the doors finally open.
With help from official sponsors Wii and Scion xB, COMEDY CENTRAL will blow out the weekend like a shopping Super Bowl, complete with commentary, stats and play-by-play of the mad scramble they call Black Friday.
In addition to the awesome prizes, viewers can chow down on a variety of laugh-out-loud programming all weekend long. Tune in for stand-up specials from Jeff Dunham, Dane Cook, Ron White and more.
“Thanxgiveaway Wiikend” is sponsored by Wii and Scion xB.
COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL’s Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY CENTRAL’s press Web site at www.comedycentral.com/press.
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