iParenting Media Awards Announce Excellent Products of 2008 Including TripFLIX, Little Tikes Sand & Water Fun Factory, Gallop! and the New Doodlebops Record and

City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 05/05/2008 - Media entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. iParenting Media (NYSE: DIS) recently announced the winners of the iParenting Media Awards Excellent Products of 2008, including items ranging from high-tech toys, safety gear and educational software to helpful books, audio CDs and Web sites. Award-winning products were selected based on their fun value, product quality, ease of use, play duration, educational nature and uniqueness, among other criteria. Key winners include: TripFLIX, an interactive DVD that generates a custom adventure based on the users selections, Gallop!, the first book ever published to use Scanimation technology that literally brings the pages to life with moveable art; Little Tikes Sand & Water Fun Factory, an innovative, multi-station fun factory with gears, gadgets, funnels and cogs; and the new ultimate rock band album from Doodlebops, Get on The Bus.


WPT Canada(TM) (NASDAQ: WPTE) (WPTC) tour kicks off with its first stop-Coast to Coast Poker Championships, presented by British Columbia Lottery Corporation-at River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia. WPTC is the dedicated tour for Canada, a country where some of the world's greatest poker professionals call home and poker is booming in best-in-class casino properties nationwide. "Canada is an incredible destination for poker, which we have experienced first-hand during three successful Canadian events on the main WPT tour," said Steve Lipscomb, WPT Founder, President and CEO.

Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. (NYSE: HTV) said recently its first-quarter profit more than doubled on a Hurricane Katrina-related insurance settlement. The media company reported net income after preferred dividends surged to $10 million, or 11 cents per share, compared with $4.3 million, or 5 cents per share, a year earlier. For the period ended March 31, revenue dipped 3 percent to $165.1 million from $169.4 million because of softening economic conditions and weakening ad sales.

EPIC Corporation (OTC: EPIO) (the "Company"), a multi-media communications and broadcasting company, announced that two shareholders have returned 15 Million shares of EPIC's common stock to the Company and the shares have been cancelled and returned to authorized but unissued shares. The issued and outstanding shares of the Company is now 11,262,023 shares. The Company, in exchange for the cancellation of the shares, agreed to issue the shareholders shares in the newly formed EPIC Communications Corp., a majority owned subsidiary of the Company, which is to become the multi-media communications and broadcasting operating company.

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