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Tom Joyner and 100.3 FM The Beat LA Draw

 

 Traffic-Jamming Crowds with Gas Giveaway

 

(Dallas, TX – June 20, 2006)  Nationally syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner and 100.3 The BEAT are packing the LA streets with their $1 a gallon gas giveaway at service stations around the city.

 

With gas tanker in tow as well as donuts, Joyner has hit the streets in his return to the LA radio market where he is offering Southern California listeners the chance to pay $1 a gallon for up to $10 worth of gas at selected gas stations today through Thursday. Living up to his 'party with a purpose' philosophy, all money gas raised from the gas sales will be used to buy books and supplies for the Los Angeles public school system. 

 

 

Known as the ‘hardest working man in radio’, Joyner is broadcasting LIVE for six hours - from 3AM - 9AM. He’s doing his top rated four-hour, music/talk/entertainment radio syndicated radio show broadcast to 115 markets around the country, and he also is doing two hours strictly for the LA market. Along with his sidekicks J. Anthony Brown, Sybil Wilkes, Myra J. and Ms. Dupre, Joyner has added comedians Lady Payne, G-Thang and Gilbert Esquivel to the LA broadcast. 

 

The Beat 100.3, LA’s R&B leader, is owned by Radio-One, the nation's seventh largest radio broadcasting company (based on 2003 net broadcast revenue) and the largest company that primarily targets African-American and urban listeners. Radio-One owns a majority stake in REACH Media Inc., founded by radio and television personality, philanthropist and entrepreneur Tom Joyner, a multi-media company formed in January 2003 as the parent company of the "Tom Joyner Morning Show", billed as the No. 1 entertainment/information morning show in America.  REACH Media also produces the syndicated TV show and the “The Tom Joyner Show and BlackAmericaWeb.com (http://blackamericaweb.com), which has more than 1.1 million members, is a virtual town square for visitors to get daily news, play games, search for jobs and listen to the Morning Show online. 

 

REACH Media also produces the Tom Joyner Family Reunion @ Walt Disney World Resorts (/family), a three-day Labor Day Weekend event, featuring top-name performers, comedians, seminars and access to the theme parks.

 

CONTACT:  Neil Foote, Director of Communications, Reach Media

neil.foote@reachmediainc.com, (972) 371-5840