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Desi Hits! (www.desihits.com) recently announced the highly anticipated launch of the Desi Hits! iTunes Store. This offering, in conjunction with Apple’s iTunes, positions Desi Hits! among an elite group of online specialty music stores, following in the footsteps of NBC, Bravo, Nike and Hot97.

Friends of Funk Filharmonik, New York’s tightest funk band, deserve a vacation. Dawn and Bill Heller are candidates in the “Do You Deserve a Vacation Contest” being held by Matt Lauer and the Today Show on NBC-TV.

The AZN Asian Excellence Awards® is the only nationally televised event celebrating significant Asian and Asian American achievements in entertainment, the arts and other disciplines that have had a profound impact on American culture.

"We believe that the Disney-ABC Television Group made the right decision in refusing to renew Rosie O'Donnell's contract on "The View." On December 5, 2006, when Ms. O'Donnell repeatedly uttered the phrase "ching chong" to depict how Chinese people speak, she used a racial slur that is offensive to all Asian Americans.

AZN Television, the Comcast-owned network for Asian-Americans, is ramping up its programming offering for the first quarter of 2007. The channel will add two new series and renew its popular “NBA Timeout” series, as well as premiere a number of films and dramas.

Asia Media Inc., publishers of ASIA, The Journal of Culture & Commerce, Southern California’s only newspaper serving the entire Asian Pacific Islander community, is launching a weekly podcast/radio program, “Asia Talk Radio,” Jan. 20.

In December a series of roundtable discussions on Global Power and Perspectives moderated by Asia Society President Vishakha Desai will air on WNYE/WNYC’s “Asian America,” the only nationally syndicated Asian affairs television show in the U.S.