VeggieTales: Saint Nicholas—A Story of Joyful Giving To Be Featured This Week on FOX & Friends, Huckabee,

Stay Tuned for Television Appearances by GRAMMY Award-winning Amy Grant and Acclaimed Sparrow Records Singer/Songwriter Matthew West in Support of Saint Nicholas and Operation Christmas Child!

⇒ Tune in for these special guest appearances/interviews by Amy Grant and Matthew West:

•FOX & Friends Morning Show – Interview with Amy Grant – (Live) Friday, December 4. Amy Grant will discuss her involvement with the all-new song and current radio single “Give This Christmas Away,” penned by Matthew West and performed by West and Grant for the VeggieTales: Saint Nicholas Christmas DVD!

•Huckabee, Fox News Channel – Matthew West’s and Amy Grant’s live performance of “Give This Christmas Away” will air Saturday, December 5 and re-air Sunday, December 6.

•FOX & Friends Christmas Special – This special performance of “Give This Christmas Away” by West and Grant will air Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25.

Pictured (L-R) are Governor Mike Huckabee, host of Fox News Channel’s “Huckabee” with Amy Grant and Matthew West, whose performance of “Give This Christmas Away” will be featured on the show this weekend.

•Rise Up with John Ritter – Interviews with Amy Grant and Matthew West and the song, “Give This Christmas Away,” will be featured this weekend on the nationally syndicated “Rise Up” country radio show heard on 400 stations.

*Check your local listings for air times.

⇒ And don’t miss “Larry the Cucumber” either!

•USA Today/www.usatoday.com – To view the USA Today feature story, “Operation Christmas Child Grows, thanks to VeggieTales,” please visit http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion.

Pictured (L-R) following the interview with The 700 Club Host Mia Evans-Saracual are: Evans-Saracual; Mike Nawrocki, Co-Creator/Voice of Larry the Cucumber; and Matthew West.

•The 700 Club

VeggieTales co-creator and voice of “Larry the Cucumber,” Mike Nawrocki, and Matthew West recently completed interviews about Saint Nicholas for an upcoming feature on The 700 Club, the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). The broadcast is scheduled to air Wednesday, December 9!

⇒ “Give This Christmas Away” !

“Give This Christmas Away” Music Video

•The song, “Give This Christmas Away,” which released on November 27 as a radio single through EMI CMG, is now receiving extensive airplay and is the “Most Added” song this week at Christian radio.

•“Give This Christmas Away” has also been serviced to AC and Country Radio through EMI and Capitol Records Nashville.

•Fans may also find the song exclusively at iTunes on the album, Saint Nicholas – Give This Christmas Away.

To view the music video, please click on the link or visit www.bigidea.com.

For more information, interviews, images, etc., contact: Maureen Hoganson, Hoganson Media Relations, 615-459-9870, MaureenHoganson@Comcast.net.