| MUMBAI:
CKX has announced that Robert Dodds is 19 Entertainment CEO. Dodds,
who will assume responsibility for the day-to-day operations of 19 Entertainment,
has served as its president since the company acquired his brand content firm,
Freedom Media, in August 2006.
Dodds
succeeds Simon Fuller, who recently signed a long-term deal with CKX to continue
to executive produce and provide overall global executive direction to CKX's television
and online shows. CKX
chairman and CEO Robert F.X. Sillerman said, "Robert has been central to
the success of 19 Entertainment over the past three years. He has helped drive
the growth of the IDOLS and So You Think You Can Dance franchises, and was pivotal
in the development of our recently announced new multimedia initiative, If I Can
Dream." | 
