{"id":1163,"date":"2007-10-29T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T11:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/cvbs-chambers-bring-ellen-to-your-town\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:44:30","slug":"cvbs-chambers-bring-ellen-to-your-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/cvbs-chambers-bring-ellen-to-your-town\/","title":{"rendered":"CVBs, chambers: Bring &#8216;Ellen&#8217; to your town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwimage.cbsnews.com\/images\/2007\/10\/18\/image3380841.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Ellen Degeneres\" height=\"197\" title=\"Ellen Degeneres\" \/>Here&#8217;s a chance for\u00a0Convention &amp; Visitors Bureaus or chambers of commerce to strut their best stuff and bring the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ellentv.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen Degeneres Show<\/a>\u00a0to their town.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen\u00a0is sponsoring a &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; program. (This is not a contest for legal reasons, claims a PR rep.)\u00a0It&#8217;s a 10-week project to find a city that&#8217;s special enough to earn a visit from DeGeneres in December. The winning city will be chosen based on stories, photos and videos people post at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aoltv.com\/show\/ellen-degeneres-show\/185048\" rel=\"noopener\">Ellen.AOL.com<\/a>\u00a0about places, things and citizens that make their hometown special.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your city isn&#8217;t chosen,\u00a0it still might end up on the show because she will feature some of the more interesting entries.\u00a0Deadline for entires is Nov. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a chance for\u00a0Convention &amp; Visitors Bureaus or chambers of commerce to strut their best stuff and bring the Ellen Degeneres Show\u00a0to their town. Ellen\u00a0is sponsoring a &#8220;Wish You Were Here&#8221; program. (This is not a contest for legal reasons, claims a PR rep.)\u00a0It&#8217;s a 10-week project to find a city that&#8217;s special enough to\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/cvbs-chambers-bring-ellen-to-your-town\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[246,46,591],"class_list":{"0":"post-1163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-chamber-of-commerce","8":"tag-event-promotion","9":"tag-special-events","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41225,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/41225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}