New York, U.S.A. — The kids of the United States have spoken and President Barack Obama has been elected the winner of Nickelodeon‘s 2012 Kids Pick the President ”Kids’ Vote.” Since it began in 1988, kids have correctly picked the winner (in advance of the national election) five out of the last six times. More than half a million votes were cast in the network’s online poll as part of Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick the President initiative to build young citizens’ awareness of, and involvement in, the election process.

President Obama received 65% of the vote and former Governor Mitt Romney received 35%. In order to more closely replicate the actual election, and to ensure the results were more authentic, this year the voting was limited to one vote per electronic device. Kids were able to cast their votes online from October 15 to October 22.

On Monday, October 22, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT), Linda Ellerbee, the Emmy Award-winning host of Nickelodeon’s Nick News, announced the winner of the Kids Pick the President ”Kids’ Vote” on the network.

“What politicians do definitely affects kids but for me, it’s not about who wins,” said Ellerbee. “It’s about creating tomorrow’s voters. Democracy takes work. We’re the practice field.”

Leading up to the Kids Pick the President online vote, Nickelodeon aired two election-themed Nick News with Linda Ellerbee specials this year, which ranked as the series’ highest-rated episodes for 2012 to date. In “Kids Pick the President: The Issues” (Sept. 17), kids nationwide ranked the campaign issues most important to them. “Kids Pick the President: The Candidates” (Oct. 15) provided an opportunity for the two major party U.S. Presidential candidates to answer kids’ questions. This year’s candidate special featured President Obama sitting down with Nick News at the White House to answer kids’ questions and previously taped video clips of Romney addressing issues raised by kids.  Romney was unable to participate in the special.

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Los Angeles, U.S.A. – All-Access Hall Pass Live, Big Bad Entertainment, Steve Nguyen & Associates (SNA) and Pure Marketing Group proudly present Who Came To Party For Operation Smile? starring Sky Blu of LMFAO. Joining the all-star fundraising event is Disney’s Shake It Up star Zendaya, Kendall & Logan from Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush, rapper Mac Miller, BQ Girls, Poreotics, and Jersey Shore breakout star, DJ Pauly D.

The party, hosted by KIISFM’s Manny Streetz, kicks off at the All-Access Hall Pass Live stage on October 21, 2012 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena inLos Angeles, California. This concert promises to deliver an unforgettable experience while allowing fans to embrace and enjoy the non-stop party and high-energy music made popular worldwide by these artists.

All-Access Hall Pass is proud to support international children’s medical charity, Operation Smile, an organization that heals smiles and transforms the lives of children born with cleft lips and cleft palates around the world. Every three minutes a child is born with a cleft, making it difficult to eat, speak, socialize, or smile. Operation Smile works in over 60 countries to provide free, safe surgery and related care for those children whose parents can’t afford the surgery that will change their lives forever.

Through dedicated medical volunteers and generous supporters, Operation Smile has provided over 3.5 million comprehensive healthcare evaluations and performed more than 200,000 surgeries for children and young adults born with clefts and other facial deformities.

With two chart-topping albums, almost a billion YouTube views and over 22 million Facebook followers,Sky Blu of LMFAO and his Big Bad crew are sure to turn the party out; championing this worthy cause for Operation Smile.

In addition, Disney’s mega-hit television series Shake It Up star Zendaya is ready to get the crowds pumpin’ and audiences jumpin’ with her performance on the All-Access Hall Pass Live to the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Mac Miller has joined the party. His album “Blue Slide Park” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200. Gracing us with a live performance are Logan Henderson and Kendall Schmidt, from Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush are giving away two Fender guitars to two lucky winners.

Recently seen on the Teen Choice Awards 2012 as the resident DJ, going on tour with Britney Spears and best known for being on MTV’s hit reality show Jersey Shore, DJ Pauly D will be hitting our stage. With a special guest performance from four past Beauty Queens from Donald Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, BQ Girls. America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5 champions, Poreotics will give a special performance. With surprise celebrity presenters from Twilight, Pretty Little Liars, Glee, High School Musical and more.

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IDW Publishing and Nickelodeon are excited to announce the launch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2012, a 48-page jam packed story written by co-writers Tom Waltz and Kevin Eastman, and drawn by co-creator Eastman. It’s been nearly 20 years since Eastman has created a full TMNT story, but fans will relish this Annual filled with non-stop downtown action and mayhem that is well worth the wait.

“After nearly 20 years I find myself once again fully engrossed in the wonderful mythos of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and having the absolute best time in my life!” said Eastman. “The intense creative energy flying around between IDW and Nickelodeon is when this idea was inspired and born, so with this incredible team, I’m back on the drawing board–hanging with the boys, knocking out a full blown epic–and it is AWESOME!”

Releasing in October this year, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Annual 2012 follows the adventure of Raphael and Casey as they find themselves in the middle of a criminal escapade gone wrong. Rival clans jockey for power in the NYC criminal underworld, and the Ninja Turtles are drawn into the chaos. Expect the unexpected in this exciting, all-new tale that sets up a crucial future TMNT storyline. Readers are encouraged to ask their retailers about the special variant “Eastman Layout” edition.

IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics launched in August 2011 with great success, resulting in multiple printings of the first five ongoing issues. Last month, TMNT comics launched digitally, and are now featured in IDW Comics and comiXology Mobile Apps for Android, iPhone, Kindle Fire, and more. There is no doubt that the Turtles have made a huge comeback, and IDW and Nickelodeon are catering to the fans by providing even more Ninja Turtle action.

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On the heels of making their US performance debut while on tour with Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush, One Direction, who are already an international pop sensation, has been confirmed to perform at Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards on Saturday, March 31st at 8:00 p.m. ET.

The band will also host Saturday nights on Nick throughout March, giving viewers exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the boys as they tour with Big Time Rush. One Direction will be sharing stories, secrets and music from the road, leading into the world premiere of the Nickelodeon original television movie event, Big Time Movie on Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m.

“One Direction is performing on the Kids’ Choice Awards for the first time and it’s going to be scream-worthy,” said Paula Kaplan, an Executive Producer of the Kids’ Choice Awards. “While on tour with Big Time Rush, we have seen their popularity explode, and we are excited to introduce them to our audience during the month of March with exclusive access to the guys leading up to our biggest event of the year.”

One Direction will perform their debut single “What Makes You Beautiful” at the Kids’ Choice Awards,joining host Will Smith for the star-studded event airing live from University of Southern California’s Galen Center in Los Angeles, where kids will honor their favorite celebrities spanning the worlds of film, music, TV and sports.

The X Factor group’s debut single “What Makes You Beautiful,” recently won a BRIT Award for Best British Single, with the music video garnering over 61 million views on VEVO and had more than 132,000 downloads in its first week in the USA. It is also the highest Billboard HOT 100 debut for a UK act in over 14 years since the Verve and they are also the last UK group to chart so high since the Spice Girls.

Most recently, One Direction featuring Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan taped an episode of the Nickelodeon hit comedy series iCarly, entitled “iGot Jungle Worms,” which is set to premiere later this year.

One Direction will debut their album Up All Night in the US on March 13, 2012. Up All Night is already a global success entering the charts at #1 in 6 countries including Sweden and Italy and top ten in 12 more and has been certified triple platinum in Ireland, double platinum in the UK and platinum in New Zealand &Australia.

One Direction joined Big Time Rush’s “Better With U Tour” on February 24th in Chicago and their US debut kicked-off with the highly successful grassroots BRING1D2US online campaign which saw the band break records with social media platforms Twitition and Twibbon. The campaign engaged thousands of fans across America to complete weekly challenges for a chance to win the Grand Prize of a special 1D event in their city.

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Nickelodeon has signed fourteen-year-old singing sensation Rachel Crow to an overall talent deal, it was announced February 22 by Paula Kaplan, Executive Vice President, Talent Strategy and West Coast Operations. As part of the new pact, Nickelodeon is developing a comedy series for Crow, who is best known for her buzz-worthy performances on Fox’s singing competition series The X Factor.

In addition, Crow has been signed by Columbia Records/Syco, label home to some of the world’s leading recording artists.

“It’s such an honor to be signed to Columbia Records,” said Crow. ”To think that I am signed to the same label as my idols is a dream come true. I can’t wait to get in the studio and start making music.” Added Crow, “And I am so excited to now be a part of the Nickelodeon family.  I grew up watching Nick, and I’m a huge fan.”

Simon Cowell, The X Factor judge and Rachel Crow’s mentor during the show said, “I am incredibly happy for Rachel. This girl has it. We saw her potential at the first audition and Nickelodeon and Columbia are the right homes for her.”

“Rachel is an original,” said Kaplan. ”She’s funny, genuine and has raw talent and a passion for performing.  We’re delighted to be home to her first acting project and think she is poised to join the ranks of our next generation of Nick stars.”

In addition to plans for her to star in a new pilot for the network, Crow is slated to appear in a recurring role in Nickelodeon’s new comedy series FRED: THE SHOW appearing opposite Lucas Cruikshank. Crow will play Starr, an imaginative, confident but awkward teenager.  Like Fred, Starr’s self-perception doesn’t match up with how the world sees her.  To her classmates, she seems a bit eccentric, but in her own mind, Starr is a wildly talented actress and singer and ready to break out of her boring town.  FRED: THE SHOW airs on Friday nights.

From Colorado, Rachel Crow was fostered as a young baby by Barbara and Kelly Crow. Crow sang her first song (Faith Hill’s “Breathe”) at 18 months old and first performed in public at age six as part of her school’s talent show.   Her parents brought her to Los Angeles in 2010 to support her dream of being a performer and she auditioned at age 13 for The X Factor in early 2011.

After being chosen as a contestant out of over 100,000 people who auditioned for season 1 of The X Factor (USA), she wowed audiences with her powerful voice and bubbly personality and placed fifth in the competition for the season.   A fan favorite and darling among the judges, L.A. Reid deemed her a “funky, feisty singer with soul” with Simon Cowell declaring that audiences would be “hearing a lot more about her.”

Rachel is managed by Jared Paul and Joshua Russak for Azoff, Geary, Paul, Smith Management.

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Nickelodeon and the White House are joining forces to bring awareness to ways kids can support U.S. military families with a special episode of iCarly, featuring the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, premiering Monday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT). Leading up to the debut of iCarly ”iMeet the First Lady,” the stars of the hit series will appear at four screening events for military families across the country.

Nickelodeon will be hosting screening events at the following locations:

• Monday, Jan. 9 – Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in Miramar, Calif.
• Wednesday, Jan. 11 – Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn.
• Thursday, Jan. 12 – Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Fort Dix, N.J.
• Friday, Jan. 13 – Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Va.

“Having Mrs. Obama guest star on iCarly as part of Joining Forces, an initiative that supports and honors military families, was a great honor,” said Marjorie Cohn, President, Original Programming and Development, Nickelodeon.  “Her appearance helps us teach kids how important friendship and support are to military kids and their families. Plus, not only was the First Lady completely at ease when acting, she also showed some serious moves when she joined the iCarly gang in a bit of Random Dancing!”

“iMeet the First Lady” will be preceded by a special dedication from the iCarly cast and Mrs. Obama to military families. Immediately following the premiere, Nickelodeon will debut a PSA that features ways kids can show their thanks and support. For more information, visit www.thebighelp.com.

Mrs. Obama watches iCarly with her daughters and chose to appear on the show because the lead character, Carly Shay (played by Miranda Cosgrove), is the daughter of an Air Force Colonel currently serving overseas in the military. In “iMeet the First Lady,” Mrs. Obama talks to Carly about her service to America as a member of a military family and thank her friends for supporting Carly during her father’s deployment.

In the episode, Carly and Spencer are excited that their dad is returning from active duty in time to celebrate his birthday and they begin planning a party to commemorate the occasion.  Unfortunately, Colonel Shay is deployed again and must cancel his trip home. Carly is devastated when she learns that she won’t be able to spend her dad’s birthday with him.  To cheer Carly up, the gang surprises her during their next iCarly webcast by transmitting a live feed to Colonel Shay.

The webcast catches the attention of high-level government agencies and results in an unexpected visit from Mrs. Obama. Having seen the webcast, Mrs. Obama is moved by what Sam, Freddie, and Gibby did for Carly and commends Carly for being such a strong and supportive daughter to a father in the service. iCarly series creator and executive producer Dan Schneider makes his first cameo appearance on the show as a Secret Service agent.

Nickelodeon’s multi-platform offerings for “iMeet the First Lady” include highlights from the episode on Nick.com and the special will also be available for purchase in HD via iTunes, Xbox, Vudu, Samsung, PlayStation and Amazon, beginning Tuesday, Jan 17.

Joining Forces is an organization spearheaded by Mrs. Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, who have been leaders in supporting our nation’s military families and advocating for their priorities. The initiative aims to educate, challenge, and spark action from all sectors of our society – citizens, communities, businesses, non-profits, faith based institutions, philanthropic organizations, and government – to ensure military families have the support they have earned.

Joining Forces was created to address the unique challenges and needs of military families that Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden have heard firsthand during meetings with military spouses, briefings with military leaders, and many visits to military communities at home and abroad, and through their work on military family priorities.

Building on this groundwork, the initiative will focus on key priority areas – employment, education, and wellness, while engaging in a comprehensive effort to raise awareness about the service, sacrifice, and needs of military families.

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Nickelodeon‘s live-action telenovela-style series, “House of Anubis”, returns for Season 2 (45 new half-hours) beginning Monday, Jan. 9, at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT). House of Anubis follows a group of students who uncover and solve mysteries at an English boarding-school while dealing with the highs and lows of their teenage years.

In Season 2, a new mystery unfolds as Nina (played by Nathalia Ramos) and her friends return for their second year at Anubis House. The season will also introduce several new characters and feature series-regular Eddie (Burkely Duffield), a self-styled punk bad-boy from America. Duffield will also star as the dim-witted stepbrother in Nickelodeon’s brand new Cinderella -inspired original TV movie, “Rags”, set to premiere in 2012. New episodes of House of Anubis will roll out in a daily format, Monday-Friday from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon.

“Nickelodeon viewers responded in a big way to the cool setting and edge-of-your-seat suspense that the first season of ‘House of Anubis’ offered,” said Marjorie Cohn, President, Development and Original Programming, Nickelodeon. ”For Season 2, Nick brings this series to the next level with heightened social stakes, a few fresh faces and more mystery that will keep fans coming back for more.”

In Season 2, the teens of Anubis House undertake a series of challenges in order to find a powerful and long-forgotten treasure. They realize their boarding-school experience consists of more than just pillow fights, midnight feasts, heartbreaks and betrayals, when an ancient force stirs within the house and sends them on a dangerous mission.

In the premiere episode, ‘House of Hello,’ the students return after the holidays, but who is Jerome avoiding and why? The Sibuna Gang has a midnight feast in the attic and finds a dollhouse. Nina also looks for a new hiding place for the Cup but will Victor find her first?

Viewers can visit iTunes.com/HouseOfAnubis to download all of Season 1 of the show for free from Dec. 19 – Jan. 10. Nickelodeon’s website, www.nick.com, currently features full episodes and show-clips from Season 1, character journal-entries, sneak-peek photos from Season 2, quizzes and more. Additionally, fans are encouraged to submit their own fiction stories on the House of Anubis message-board. Beginning Jan. 9, fan stories will be highlighted on the website each week.

An established Nickelodeon hit in Europe, House of Anubis is the first-ever Nickelodeon U.S. live-action show produced in the U.K. and airs on other Nick channels around the world. The first season of ‘House of Anubis’ (new episodes Mon-Fri at 7 p.m.) averaged a 5.5/1.2 million kids 6-11 rating, 4.7/1.0 million tweens 9-14 rating and delivered an average of 2.9 million total viewers for its first season.

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