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Pete In New York



Man, I wish I lived in NYC just for once....

I guess from there he'll go to Letterman's studios.  Or is that show
recorded earlier in the day?
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       Q104 Radio Station Hosts a Night With Rock Icon Pete Townshend,
                Celebrating the Release of His Forthcoming CD,
             Pete Townshend Live: A Benefit for Maryville Academy

    NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Q104, New York's Only Classic Rock
radio station, along with Platinum Entertainment, will host a special
evening of music from the forthcoming benefit CD of rock legend Pete
Townshend on Wednesday, July 28, 1999 at 6:30 PM.  The reception for his
CD, Pete Townshend Live: A Benefit for Maryville Academy, will be held at
The Supper Club, 240 West 47th Street, in Manhattan.  Mr. Townshend, Q104
DJs and special guests will be in attendance at this invitation-only
affair.  Q104 will also give a number of invitations away to listeners each
day prior to the event.
    Proceeds of Mr. Townshend's forthcoming CD will benefit Maryville
Academy, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL that is dedicated
to providing structure, stability, and a sense of purpose in the lives of
the abused and neglected children entrusted to its care.
    For further information, press passes and interviews with Pete
Townshend or Q104 DJs, please call Wendy DeMarco or Elana Weiss at
212-727-8270.  No press will be admitted without prior consent and photo
credentials are a must.

    Q104 (WAXQ-FM 104.3), owned and operated by AMFM Inc. (NYSE: AFM),
consists of the AMFM Radio Group, including the AMFM Radio Networks and the
Chancellor Marketing Group, and the AMFM New Media Group, including Katz
Media and AMFM's Internet operations.  AMFM Radio Group is the nation's
largest radio broadcasting entity with approximately 465 stations in 105
markets reaching a weekly listener base of 66 million people.  The AMFM
Radio Networks offers syndicated programming nationwide.  Chancellor
Marketing Group is a full-service, sales promotion firm developing
integrated marketing programs for Fortune 1000 companies.  AMFM's Katz
Media is the only full-service media representation firm in the United
States serving multiple types of electronic media.  AMFM's Internet
operations focus on developing AMFM's E-commerce web sites, streaming
online broadcasts of AMFM's on-air programming and other media, and
promoting emerging Internet and new media concerns to stations in 105
markets reaching a weekly listener base of 66 million people.

    Platinum Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTET) is the largest U.S.
independent music company that manufactures, licenses and, through Platinum
Distribution, distributes high quality recorded music in a variety of
genres, including adult contemporary, pop, blues, gospel, urban, country,
new age, electronic, world and classical.  The company issues new releases
as well as compilations, through its subsidiary labels Platinum, House of
Blues Music Co., River North, CGI Platinum and Intersound Classical. 
Platinum also operates a consumer retail Web site at www.PlatinumCD.com,
and has created a "virtual inventory" of 13,000 titles that can be
purchased via the company's equity investment in Musicmaker.com, the first
and largest custom CD and music download Web site.

SOURCE  WAXQ-FM 104.3
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    /CONTACT:  Elana Weiss, eweisspr@aol.com, or Wendy DeMarco,
wendy@getpublicized.com, both of Weiss Demarco Public Relations,
212-727-8270, for Q104/
    /Web site:  www.classicq104.com/
    (AFM)

CO:  WAXQ-FM 104.3; AMFM Inc.; Platinum Entertainment ST:  New York IN: 
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--Carolyn