{"id":626,"date":"2013-08-07T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2013\/08\/07\/626\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:37:29","slug":"626","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2013\/626\/","title":{"rendered":"Hub Network sets Sat., Oct 26 for its inaugural Halloween Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><strong>Hub Network has set Saturday, Oct. 26, as the date for its inaugural Halloween Bash<\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong>The  newest kids net didn&#8217;t waste much time jumping on the signature-event  bandwagon&#8211;and it&#8217;s going big. The live-to-tape special will take place  at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, be exec-produced by <strong>Bob Bain<\/strong> (Nickelodeon&#8217;s Kids&#8217; Choice Awards and Fox&#8217;s Teen Choice Awards) and produced by <strong>Paul Flattery<\/strong>,  and air five to seven times around the holiday. A &#8220;spooktacular&#8221; event  is the perfect dovetail with Hub&#8217;s cache of safe-scary programming  including <strong>Goosebumps<\/strong> and <strong>RL Stine&#8217;s The Haunting Hour<\/strong>. The  Halloween Bash will include entertainment, plus a nationwide costume  competition with finalists from every state. &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to celebrate  all kinds of  families, stimulate imagination and creativity and I think we&#8217;re going  to be blown away by the level of what we see and the creativity,&#8221; Hub  president\/CEO <strong>Margaret Loesch<\/strong> tells <strong><em>CynKids<\/em><\/strong>  exclusively. &#8220;Think about it&#8211;a whole class of from a school in southern  Illinois [where I lived for a while when I was a child] could be the  winner. Or a couple, or an individual. We want it to be very  egalitarian. Anybody can win if they have the best costume. They don&#8217;t  have to sing or dance; they just have to have a great imagination.&#8221;  Celeb host, presenters, judges and musical acts are sure to be in  abundance and will be announced shortly. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hub Network has set Saturday, Oct. 26, as the date for its inaugural Halloween Bash. The newest kids net didn&#8217;t waste much time jumping on the signature-event bandwagon&#8211;and it&#8217;s going big. The live-to-tape special will take place at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, be exec-produced by Bob Bain (Nickelodeon&#8217;s Kids&#8217; Choice Awards and Fox&#8217;s Teen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saSd8M-626","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}