AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO MANAGEMENT COOPERATION AGREEMENT

Exhibit 2.3

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
MANAGEMENT COOPERATION AGREEMENT

AMENDMENT NO. 1, dated as of July 18, 2007 (this “Amendment”), to the MANAGEMENT COOPERATION AGREEMENT, dated as of June 1, 2007 (the “Management Cooperation Agreement”), is entered into by and among CKX, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each of the holders of shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) set forth on Schedule I hereto (each a “Stockholder”). All terms not herein defined shall have the meanings as set forth in the Management Cooperation Agreement.

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9(b) of the Management Cooperation Agreement, the Company, acting through the Special Committee, and the Stockholders desire to amend the Management Cooperation Agreement;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein and in the Management Cooperation Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Section 2 will be deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following:

Each Stockholder hereby, jointly and severally with respect to the other Stockholders in such Stockholder’s Executive Officer Group, and severally and not jointly with respect to each of the other Stockholders, covenants and agrees to the Company as follows:

(a) Until the Expiration Time, such Stockholder will not directly or indirectly, except as specifically provided in this agreement (i) sell, assign, transfer (by merger or otherwise by operation of law), pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of (including by gift) any of such Stockholder’s Shares, or any interest therein, (ii) deposit any of such Stockholder’s Shares into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to any of such Shares or grant any proxy or power of attorney with respect thereto that is inconsistent with this Agreement, (iii) enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or undertaking with respect to the direct or indirect sale, assignment, transfer, tender, pledge, encumbrance, or other disposition of any of such Shares, or (iv) commit or agree to take any of the foregoing actions. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2 to the contrary, each Stockholder (y) may tender and sell such Stockholder’s Shares to Parent or its Affiliates or Purchaser in a tender offer that is recommended by the Company’s Board of Directors (acting through the Special Committee), and (z) may transfer any of such Stockholder’s Shares to one or more of its Affiliates or to Parent or its Affiliates (a “Permitted Transferee”), provided that prior (and as a condition) to any such transfer such Stockholder shall deliver to the Company a signed counterpart to this Agreement indicating that such Permitted Transferee agrees to be joined as a party to this Agreement (in addition to, and not in substitution of, the Stockholder named herein), as if (and to the same extent) such Permitted Transferee were originally named as “Stockholder” in this Agreement, and all references herein to “Stockholder” shall also be deemed to include such Permitted Transferee as applicable.

(b) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2 to the contrary, until the Expiration Time, each Stockholder set forth on Schedule II hereto and such Stockholder’s Permitted Transferees may transfer such number of Shares as set forth opposite such Stockholder’s name on Schedule II hereto (a “Permitted Transfer”); provided that any Permitted Transfer by Xxxxxx F.X. Sillerman shall be made only to a bona fide charity. Any Shares transferred as a Permitted Transfer under this Section 2(b) shall, upon their transfer, no longer be included in the definition of Shares and, as such, will not be subject to the rights, terms or obligations of the Management Cooperation Agreement or this Amendment.

2. There shall be added a Schedule II to the Management Cooperation Agreement as attached to this Amendment.

3. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, nothing contained in this Amendment shall be deemed to limit, amend, modify, waive or extend any of the rights, terms or obligations under the Management Cooperation Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has caused this Amendment to be signed by its respective duly authorized officer as of the date first written above.

CKX, INC

By:  /s/  Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President

/s/  Xxxxxx F. X. Sillerman
Name: Xxxxxx F. X. Sillerman

/s/  Xxxxx Xxxxx Sillerman
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxx Sillerman

SILLERMAN COMMERCIAL HOLDINGS PARTNERSHIP L.P.

By:  SILLERMAN INVESTMENT CORPORATION, its General Partner

By:  /s/  Xxxxxx F. X. Sillerman
Name: Xxxxxx F. X. Sillerman
Title: President

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 1 to the Management Cooperation Agreement]

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SILLERMAN CAPITAL HOLDINGS L.P.

	By:	SILLERMAN CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC., its General Partner
	By:	/s/  Xxxxxx F. X. Sillerman

Name: Xxxxxx F. X. Sillerman

Title:  President

/s/  Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

/s/  Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx 2004 GRAT

By:  /s/  Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Title:  Trustee

/s/  Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx

Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx

/s/  Xxxxxx Xxxxx

Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx

/s/  Xxxxx Xxxxxx

Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx

/s/  Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 1 to the Management Cooperation Agreement]

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SCHEDULE II

Permitted Transfers

Column A		Column B
Executive Officer		Affiliates/Direct Ownership				Number of Shares
Xxxxxx F.X. Sillerman			Direct Ownership				3,000,000
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx			Direct Ownership				365,822
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx			Direct Ownership				519,430
			Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx 2004 GRAT				99,851
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx			Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxx				449,246
Xxxxx Xxxxxx			Direct Ownership				301,463
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx			Direct Ownership				278,156