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SPRING, MD - The Travel Channel is holding an Opening Night
on Sunday, March 30, from 7-11 p.m. ET/PT, where it will launch
three first-ever series on the network. The evening will kick
off with the first two-hour episode of Travel Channel's new
series, the World Poker Tour at 7 p.m. ET/PT; followed at 9
p.m. ET/PT with back-to-back half-hour episodes of the new reality
series, The Jim Rose Twisted Tour; and will culminate with a
new one-hour episode of TV Road Trip to launch its new Road
Trip series at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
The World Poker Tour series consists of 13 nationally-televised
poker events filmed in casinos around the world, and features
the best poker players in the world as they vie for multi-million
dollar prize pools. The World Poker Tour, will air regularly
on the Travel Channel Wednesday nights from 9 - 11 p.m. ET/PT
beginning Wednesday, April 2, features expert analysis and varying
camera angles. Best of all, viewers will get close-ups of the
players' hands and sneak peeks of the hole cards, creating a
new element of high-stakes, high-anxiety excitement. The 13-episode
series reaches its exciting conclusion with the season's grand
finale, The World Poker Tour Championship, which has a $25,000
participant entry fee and features winners from all the poker
competitions throughout the 13 tournament season, competing
to become the world's best
poker player.
The Jim
Rose Twisted Tour will air regularly on Monday evenings from
10-11 p.m. (ET/PT), beginning March 31. This reality series
captures the exploits and escapades of life on the road with
the world's most unusual troupe of performers, The Jim Rose
Circus. Cameras give a behind-the-scenes look at what happens
off the stage
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between these unique characters, and the interesting and unusual
happenings that transpire as the performers travel on their
tour bus across America. Along the way, Jim and his touring
band of gypsies look for the eccentric and just plain weird
on their "odyssey of the odd." Viewers see the tensions
build and tempers flare as everyone must deal with the quintessential
differences that make their talents -- and lifestyles -- so
unique. These characters, their personalities, and their life
together on the road is the focus of the Travel Channel's The
Jim Rose Twisted Tour.
On the heels
of last year's highly successful TV Road Trip special, Travel
Channel broadens the genre with a new Road Trip series that
maps out an entire season of memorable, globe-hopping, nostalgic
tours tailored especially for TV fans, movie buffs, sports enthusiasts,
magic mavens, ghost busters and much more. No ordinary by-the-book
tours, these genre-specific journeys are populated by a mix
of unforgettable personalities who breathe life into each destination,
from The Love Boat's Gavin "Captain Stubbing" MacLeod,
to American Graffiti's Candy "Debbie" Clark, to Baltimore
Orioles' "Ironman" Cal Ripken. Noted celebrities take
viewers for the ride, including Christopher Knight, host of
TV Road Trip; Kevin Pollak, host of Movie Lover's Road Trip;
and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, host of Haunted Road Trip and Theme Park
Road Trip. The new Road Trip series will air regularly on Thursday
nights from 10 - 11 p.m. ET/PT, and will begin with two one-hour
premieres of Movie Lover's Road Trip, on Thursday, April 3,
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Iowa
Casino Ship Opens
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/Sioux
City Journal/ - SIOUX CITY, IA – Jesus Aviles took
a gamble on Sioux City's riverboat casino. It paid off,
and may pay off more.
When
Aviles came to Sioux City as the casino's general manager
17 months ago, he saw a nice-enough riverboat floating
next to a not-so-nice barge with some trailers on it.
He knew the look had to go. So he went to his board and
asked for $6 million to build on the barge, moving the
corporate and training offices there, building a new restaurant
and making the scenery more attractive. The
board balked at him. "I whined like a baby and said,
'give me money',” Aviles teased.
 They
went ahead with the project. The referendum easily passed
in November 2002. Now Argosy
Casino Sioux City is ready to officially open the
new addition on March 1st and kick off a week of celebration.
The
22,000-square-foot barge addition, besides featuring a
new restaurant, party room, guest services and coat check,
will also house the casino's corporate offices and training
space. The entire project is about 95 percent complete.
The office space, training area and employee lounge should
be completed yet this month.
"I
sit here and I think this is great," Aviles said,
drinking a cup of coffee in the restaurant. "We've
made our employees more comfortable and our customers
more comfortable."
The
total project costs are expected to be more than $6 million,
Aviles said. An unexpected expense when the project started
in May was rocks from the bank that slid under the barge.
The company spent $100,000 to dredge under the barge before
construction started. |
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