CLARKSDALE, Miss., Dec. 22, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Big Star Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:BMGI) (the "Company"), a diversified entertainment and information distribution company, today provides a corporate profile for investors:
Big Star Media Group is a multi-faceted music, film, and information communications company with a strategic focus on leveraging digital media technology to bridge the gap between authentic artists passionate about their music and the modern consumer. Its various entities focus on everything from the webcasting of live music events, to promoting new musical talent, producing films, and communicating corporate messaging. Corporate messaging relates particularly to educating the general public on the benefits of alternative and renewable fuels.
Headquartered in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Big Star Media Group will help facilitate the dissemination of the area's rich blues heritage by creating, developing and exploiting multimedia platforms and providing for high-quality content delivery via the web and traditional media.
Big Star Media Group's subsidiaries include: i) Big Star Live, ii) Big Star Records, iii) Big Star Informative Media, iv) Big Star Films, and v) Big Star Communications.
Big Star Live
Big Star Live strives to provide live streaming concert video of performances in music venues from across the country over the Internet. Big Star Media Group's The Ground Zero Blues Club, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, is the first venue configured with the equipment used to carry the audio and video signals so they can be streamed live to viewers over the web.
Big Star Records
Big Star Records is a musical talent development and production company. It is focused on the entire spectrum of each artist's career, beginning with locating, developing and recording new artists. Services provided include production, distribution, booking, management and agent support, as well as marketing and promotional activities.
Big Star Informative Media
Big Star Informative Media provides communication services on behalf of its customers to their intended audiences. Informative Media facilitates the communication of targeted messaging, research, education, and analysis to specific recipients and serves to educate a client's customer about issues related to the client's business environment, products, or services. The communication will be distributed through electronic conduits such as Internet blogs, social networking sites, and corporate video systems. Part of Big Star Informative Media's focus will be to educate the general public on the benefits of alternative and renewable fuels.
Big Star Films
Big Star Films is a film production company that endeavors to write, develop, and execute projects for the big screen, television, web, and mobile platforms. Big Star Films owns its own full-scale recording, production, and soundstage facilities on site in Clarksdale, MS.
Big Star Communications
Big Star Communications will be a network and bandwidth entity focused on providing high-speed data connectivity to its customers. Big Star Communications was initially formed to facilitate the physical data communication of certain activities within Big Star Media Group.
About Big Star Media Group, Inc.
As a whole, the Big Star Media Group benefits from a skilled team of entertainment industry veterans lead by CEO Jeff Skillen, a highly regarded entrepreneur with experience in virtually all facets of the entertainment industry, including: digital media, A&R, management, sales, marketing and distribution. Most recently he was Executive Vice President at Gibson Guitar Corporation where he held responsibility for worldwide entertainment relations and new technology initiatives. He has also served as General Manager of a joint venture label with Warner Bros. Records, Nashville.
"The core mission and passion behind Big Star Media Group is creating the means for artists to effectively deploy their content using the latest communications platforms and technology to reach the broadest fan-base possible," said Jeff Skillen, Chief Executive Officer. "Each of our subsidiaries is tightly integrated in order to maximize the effective distribution of our content to its various constituencies. As developments unfold, we look forward to providing the public with more information about Big Star, including investor-facing assets, which will be released as soon as they are available."
Big Star Media Group, Inc. is a multi-faceted entertainment and information distribution company focused on web-based presentations of live music events, the promotion of new musical talent, film production, and corporate messaging. For more information, please visit: www.bigstarmediagroup.com.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.