CKX Announces January 10th Payment Date for Dividend of FX Real Estate and Entertainment Shares

NEW YORK, Jan. 3  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CKX, Inc. (NASDAQ:CKXE), announced today that January 10, 2008 will be the payment date for the previously  announced  distribution  of  shares  of  FX  Real  Estate  and Entertainment Inc. stock to the CKX stockholders. CKX previously announced that the record date for receipt of the distribution was December 31, 2007. CKX stockholders of record will receive, on January 10th, two shares of common stock of FX Real Estate and Entertainment for every ten shares of common or preferred stock of CKX that they owned as of December 31st.

The distribution of shares in FX Real Estate and Entertainment is intended to give CKX stockholders an interest in FXRE's location-based exploitation of CKX's Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali assets pursuant to the terms of FXRE's license agreements with CKX and its subsidiaries.

A  registration  statement  for  the  shares  of  FX  Real  Estate  and Entertainment common stock to be distributed was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 31, 2007. A copy of the prospectus for the distribution of FX Real Estate and Entertainment shares is available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/.

About CKX, Inc.

CKX,  Inc.  is  engaged  in  the  ownership,  development  and  commercial utilization of entertainment content. To date, the Company has focused on acquiring  globally  recognized  entertainment  content  and  related  assets, including the rights to the name, image and likeness of Elvis Presley, the operations of Graceland, the rights to the name, image and likeness of Muhammad Ali and proprietary rights to the IDOLS television brand, including the American Idol series in the United States and local adaptations of the IDOLS television show format which, collectively, air in over 100 countries around the world. On June 1, 2007, CKX entered into a merger agreement with 19X, Inc., a private company owned and controlled by Robert F.X. Sillerman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CKX, and Simon R. Fuller, a director of CKX and the Chief Executive Officer of 19 Entertainment Limited, a wholly- owned subsidiary of CKX, that will result in the sale of CKX to 19X at a maximum price of $13.75 per share in cash. In addition and as a condition to the merger, the Company has previously announced its plan to distribute to its stockholders two shares of common stock of FX Real Estate and Entertainment Inc. for every ten shares of common or preferred stock of CKX held on the record date for such distribution. For more information about FX Real Estate and Entertainment Inc. and the planned distribution, please see FX Real Estate and Entertainment's Prospectus dated December 31, 2007. For more information about CKX, Inc., visit its corporate website at http://www.ckx.com/.

About FX Real Estate and Entertainment

FX Real Estate and Entertainment owns 17.72 contiguous acres of land located at the southeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada, known as the Park Central Property. FXRE intends to pursue a hotel, casino, entertainment, retail, commercial and residential development project on the Park Central Property. FXRE recently entered into license agreements with Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., an 85%-owned subsidiary of CKX, Inc., and Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC, an 80%- owned subsidiary of CKX, which allows it to use the intellectual property and certain other assets associated with Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali in the development of its real estate and other entertainment attraction based projects. FXRE currently anticipates that the development of the Park Central Property will involve multiple elements that incorporate the Elvis Presley assets and theming.  In addition, the license agreement with Elvis Presley Enterprises grants FXRE the right to develop, and it currently intends to pursue the development of, one or more hotels as part of the master plan of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. to  redevelop  the  Graceland  property  and  surrounding  areas  in  Memphis, Tennessee.

In addition to its interest in the Park Central Property, its plans with respect to a Graceland-based hotel, and its intention to pursue additional real estate and entertainment based developments using the Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali intellectual property, FXRE, through direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries, own 1,410,363 shares of common stock of Riviera Holdings Corporation [Amex: RIV], a company that owns and operates the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and the Blackhawk Casino in Blackhawk, Colorado. 

DATASOURCE: CKX, Inc.



CONTACT:  Sean Cassidy, [phone], or Ed Tagliaferri,

[phone], for CKX, Inc.



Web site:  http://www.ckx.com/ 

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