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Interstate Bakeries Corp.'s Hostess brand joins forces with DC Comics, Cartoon Network and KidsWB! for an online sweeps that lets kids create a superhero.

Panasonic is launching a sweepstakes to promote new electronics for the holiday season. The "Cool Ideas" sweeps begins this month and ends Jan. 30. Contestants

Discovery Networks and Time Warner Cable team up next year to promote TLC's new series Clean Sweep with a sweepstakes. The "Time to Come Clean" sweeps,

Game show Pyramid gets a national direct-mail sweeps that will award four grand-prize trips to Los Angeles for a show taping and meeting with host Donny

TEAM Coalition, in conjunction with the NFL, is sponsoring a contest that dangles tickets to the Super Bowl as an incentive to drink responsibly and appoint

American Airlines and United Airlines are each using sweepstakes to drum up customers and charitable donations. American, in a regional promotion, offers

Hallmark Cards, Inc. will run a holiday sweeps that ties its retail stores to Hallmark Channel programming. Hallmark's holiday sweeps lets you be a star

WHAT KID, DREAMING OF BECOMING a movie star, wouldn't want a Hollywood-themed bedroom complete with spotlights and a stage? That's the premise for a new

The famous Carnegie Deli hosts a sandwich-making contest on Nov. 3, National Sandwich Day. Five finalists in Finlandia Cheese's Great Sandwich Recipe

McDonald's Corp. may end Best Chance Monopoly early, since some restaurants seem likely to run out of game pieces before the Nov. 10 end date. According