OUT&ABOUT
TV
A Streaming Internet & TV Programming Media
Organization
Former “Access Hollywood” Reporter
Kristen Reeves,
Joins Orange County TV
Niece of Actress Rita Wilson, Reeves Hosts “Movies
OC” Segment
ORANGE
COUNTY, Calif. (Feb. 17, 2004) -- Orange County
TV (OCTV) today announced that Kristen Reeves, a former
Access Hollywood entertainment reporter, will serve
as hostess of “Movies O.C.” a segment within
the popular “Out&About Orange County.”
Kristen is the niece of award-winning actress, Rita
Wilson, and brings the family talent to the screen with
her on-camera charm and wit while interviewing celebrities
for their upcoming feature films roles.
“We couldn’t be more delighted,”
said Liz Rooney, president of Orange County TV. “Kristen’s
immediate energy, hard work and dedication will make
‘Movies O.C.’ a must-watch show on local
television and more. Kristen is fresh and new and so
is Out&About OC—a perfect combination!”
“Movies O.C.,” which highlights upcoming
movie releases, is one segment within “Out&About
Orange County,” an entertainment-based show highlighting
the various travel destinations, venues and events happening
in Orange County and Southern California. “Out&
About Orange County” will debut weekends on FOX-TV
(in the Southern California area) this spring.
Kristen’s reporting for Orange County TV has
already taken her to the Directors Guild of America
Awards. Kristen will cover many upcoming Southern California
entertainment-related events including the Screen Actors
Guild Awards, movie junkets and premieres within the
Southern California area as well as the Cannes Film
Festival in France.
Orange County TV is the only entity to cover OC events
and happenings with a wide-scale audience and outside-of-the-box
reach – utilizing television (FOX & UPN),
in-room hotel programming, at the convention center
kiosk, at the visitor center, in trolley transportation,
on DVD mailers and streaming on 7 web sites in English
and Spanish. Out&About Orange County will reach
an estimated 15-29 million people for one year of airings
with a frequency rate of more than 42 million airings.
Out&About OC is designed to bring awareness and
highlight Orange County with such segments as city destinations,
dining, chef secrets, hotels, family fun, shopping,
spas, museums, entertainment, golf, real estate, transportation
sight-seeing, event planner, extreme sports, business,
movies, film commission, local events and calendar.
For more information concerning Kristen Reeves, contact
Liz Rooney at 949.722.7788 or liz@octv.com
300dpi Photo of Kristen Reeves is available at: Kristen
Pic 300dpi
OUT&ABOUT
TV
A Streaming Internet & TV Programming
Media Organization
QUADRUPLES
-- INTERNET VIEWERS IN ONE MONTH
(Newport
Beach, CA - May 6, 2003)
Out&About TVs multi-media web site, www.octv.com,
made its official debut mid-April 2003 with a series of
public events. The site has been on the Internet for one
year. However, in April 2003 the number of hits to the
site increased by 425% - a huge upsurge over all
preceding months.
The actual number of people who visited
the site - read, viewed and listened to the information
- increased to 216,667. Prior to that time, the web site
received about 50,000 hits per month, which represented
an in-depth figure of people actually reading, viewing
or listening to the information at the site.
This burgeoning media organization produces
streaming audio/video for its web site as well as television
programming for Orange County Cable TV, in-room hotel
programming, convention centers, visitor information centers
and transportation vehicles. Out&About TV also provides
video streaming content for more than ten (10) web sites
in English and Spanish, including the web site for Anaheim/Orange
County Visitors and Convention Bureau (AOCVCB).
Out&About TVs exclusive footage
of Orange County scenery, events, people, places and gatherings
appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, FOX, Discovery channels through
a cooperative relationship with Emily Kaufman, a nationally
recognized TV personality known as The Travel Mom.
Explains Owner/Producer Liz Rooney, Because
we are also partnered with the Orange County Film Commission,
all our videos are seen by top film and movie location
managers, directors and producers who represent studios
such as DreamWorks, Universal, Warner Brothers, and many
more. (See listings of movies shot in OC recently,
http://ocfilm.org/ocfilms.htm) The feature film
industry spends more than $500 million in Orange County
every year through these production studios, including
feature films, TV shows, commercials, independent films
and music videos.
While it is difficult to accurately calculate
the financial impact and good will that www.octv.com provides
for Orange County, it is definitely the aim of this media
company to demonstrate over time the effect it will have
on bringing business from around the world to this community.
Many CEOs agree with us and share our passion for
providing Orange County with a media outlet to spread
the word and tell our story, states Rooney.
For additional information please contact
Liz Rooney, Out&About TV, www.octv.com.
949.722.7788.
OUT&ABOUT
TV
A Streaming Internet & TV Programming Media Organization
Out&About
OC to Launch 4/16/03
ANAHEIM/ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITOR
BUREAU
TOWN HALL MEETING
Media is invited to cover the April 16, 2003
event.
(Newport Beach, CA - April, 2003) Out&About TV
sprang onto the media scene in 1999 with a concept that is
much more than merely multi-media production. The company
provides entertainment news coverage/destination information
and business news in the Orange County area by combining Internet
streaming media in English and Spanish with television programming,
in-room hotel programming, convention center exposure, visitor
center airings and transportation vehicles.
The media is invited to the debut announcement April 16,
2003, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 204-A, beginning
at 9 a.m. and running until 10 a.m.
Out&About TV Producer/Owner Liz Rooney explains: We
believe that Orange County is ascending onto the world stage
in terms of international business development and visitor
destination planning. We intend to be the first there with
our products to serve and inform the County, and especially
the international community, about Orange Countys amenities
and business opportunities to increase tourism and economic
development to Orange County.
Currently, Out&About TV is producing an entertainment
show called Out&About Orange County in conjunction with
the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau
and their members. Production of this show is under contract
through 2005. The goal is to reach four target audiences --
local residents, visitors, meeting/event planners, and the
feature film industry -- to promote awareness, tourism and
increase economic development.
TV celebrity Emily Kaufman, known as The Travel Mom,
will host Out&About Orange County. A variety of local
celebrity guest hosts, including Society Editor Cherri Farah,
Food Critic Fifi Chao, OC's Concierge President Scott O' Hanlon,
and Real Estate Specialist Adrienne Brennan, will bring their
unusual perspectives to the program content of both these
TV and the Web sites.
The show highlights city destinations, dining, hotels, family
fun, shopping, spas, museums, golf, real estate, event planners,
entertainment, sightseeing, transportation, local events and
a monthly calendar. Each program segments consist of from
:30 to1:20-second video vignettes of each location highlighting
its specific amenities. The length of each is meant
to make it easy for people with busy lifestyles to access
the information in a moment, explains Ms. Rooney.
On April 16, 2003, Out&About Orange County will debut
on 9-plus Web sites in English. They are: www.AOCVCB.org,
www.AnaheimOC.org, www.OrangeCounty.TV, www.OCTV.com, www.OrangeCountyTV.com,
www.OCFilm.org, www.Out&AboutTV.net, www.TheTravelMom.com,
www.CyberTVShows.com. The Spanish version of Out&About
Orange County will debut on April 30, 2003 on www.OCTVEspanol.com.
Bureau members will have rights to stream the content on their
own Web sites for one full year.
Additionally, on March 11, 2003, Out&About Orange County
began airings on local Orange County TV. By the end of April
the airings will also be seen at the AOCVCB Visitors
Center, at the Anaheim Convention Center, In-Room Hotel Programming
and in transportation vehicles.
Emily Kaufman, The Travel Mom, segment hostess for CNN, MSNBC,
CBS, Discovery, FOX and NBC, will use Out&About Orange
Countys film and video footage for national broadcasting,
giving the company even greater added exposure. Ms Kaufman
has limited rights to use OCTVs video footage for segments
she hosts for such national media outlets as CNN, MSNBC, CBS,
Discovery, FOX and NBC. This exposure will allow Orange County
to be seen in different venues throughout out the world.
Future added value advertising venues for Out&About Orange
County include airings in-flight programming for three major
airlines and Direct TV. Out&About Orange County is estimated
to reach between 5-8 million viewers in its first year.
Community leaders, CEOs and business executives have
reacted positively to the Out&About TV endeavor,
states Rooney. They indicate this form of multi-media-wide
programming will fill a need, as well as a void left when
OCN ceased operations. An additional feature of the
new programming will be one-on-one interviews with business
leaders, allowing them enough time to answer questions in
a business-friendly environment.
Out&About TV is a division of Rodney Rooney Production
& Advertising, Inc. The companys mission is to provide
its clients with a one-stop source for production and advertising
needs.
The media is invited to cover the April 16, 2003, debut/announcement
and view programming content demonstration.
For additional information please contact Liz Rooney, Out&About
TV, www.octv.com.
949.722.7788.
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OUT&ABOUT
TV
An Innovative Maxi-Multi Media Organization
DEBUTS
--
www.newportbeachfilmfestival.com
Featuring Steaming Video of 4thAnnual
Newport Beach Film Festival
Highlighting
Films from 45 Countries
And
-- Marking the Largest Short Films Program
for any Feature Film Festival in the United States
Newport Beach, CA - April 2003.
Out&About TV has successfully launched its Web site
www.newportbeachfilmfestival.com
featuring the Newport Beach Film Festival's (NBFF)gala opening
night festivities. Out&AboutTV has now posted its exclusive
streaming video coverage highlighting interviews by Entertainment
Reporter Cherri Farah with celebrities, producers, directors
and dignitaries.
Out&About TV Owner/Producer Liz Rooney
explains, We at Orange County
TV have taken the entertainment news of the Newport Beach
Film Festival to streaming video for viewers around the
world to see on our Web page. (www.newportbeachfilmfestival.com)
we have created videos with the Premiere Cinema Guild organizers
and interviews from the opening night's festivities with
celebrities and dignitaries praising the stature of this
innovative Film Festival.
Opening night festivities for the Film Festival
were held Thursday evening, April 3, 2003, at Edwards Big
Newport in Fashion Island.
Stars interviewed included Edoardo Ponti
(Sophia Loren's son), actor Judd Nelson, actress
Deborah Kara Unger, actress Jeanne Carmen,
writer Brandon James, actor/director Val Guest,
director Marc Munden, actor John Simm, producer
Kathy Leek and director Brian Belefant. Others
interviewed include: Festival founding members Rita Goldberg,
Lucy and Leigh Steinberg, and Executive Director
Gregg Schwenk.
This year marks the largest short films program
for any feature film festival in the United States; films
from over 45 countries; an increase of about 35 percent
more screenings over last year; and 14 gala and special
spotlight film events. The Festivals selection committee
reviewed more than 1000 films.
The Festival runs April 3-11, 2003 and will
highlight some 300 films from more than 45 countries around
the world, including features, shorts, documentaries, childrens
films and animation.
The films selected to run in this years
Film Festival competed for jury and audience awards, and
includes 120 features and documentaries. In addition, more
than 170 short films will be showcased, making it one of
the largest short film programs within a film festival in
the entire nation.
Special events at the Festival include the
premiere of Miranda (United States) starring Christina Ricci
on Opening Night followed by a gala celebration at the Radisson
Hotel, Newport Beach. The Outsiders, a Francis Ford Coppola
film, celebrated its 20th Anniversary at the Festival on
April 4, 2003 followed by a post-party at the Hard Rock
Cafe with special performance by Leif Garrett and his band
F8.
This years Asian Spotlight will feature
the world premiere of Red Trousers-The Life of the Hong
Kong Stuntmen (China), a behind-the-scenes look at the worlds
greatest stuntmen. The Festival will also spotlight A Beautiful
Secret (Mexico), a coming of age film by Leopoldo Laborde,
and will present a tribute to Academy Award Nominee Greg
MacGillivray, a Newport Beach native, whose projects include
Five Summer Stories and the IMAX hit Everest. The Newport
Beach Film Festival will conclude with Small Voices (Philippines)
a film by Gil M. Portes.
Out & About TV sprang onto the media scene
in 1999 with a concept that is much more than merely multi-media
production. The company provides entertainment news coverage/destination
information and business news in the Orange County (CA)
area by combining Internet streaming media in English and
Spanish with television programming, in-room hotel programming,
convention center exposure, visitor center airings and transportation
vehicles.
Producer/entrepreneur Liz Rooney, the guiding
light of this maxi-media Internet product, created and oversees
the concept. Community leaders, CEOs and business
executives have reacted positively to the Out&About
TV endeavor, states Rooney. They have indicated
that this form of multi-media-wide programming will fill
their many communications need.
The Newport Beach Film Festival is sponsored
by Absolut Vodka, Adelphia, American Express, Lucy &
Leigh Steinberg, and the City of Newport Beach.
Out&About TV is a division of Rodney
Rooney Production & Advertising, Inc. The companys
mission is to provide its clients with a one-stop source
for production and advertising needs.
For additional information please contact
Liz Rooney, Out&About TV, liz@octv.com,
www.octv.com. 949.722.7788.
www.newportbeachfilmfestival.com
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OCTV
TO COVER
55th ANNUAL DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
AWARDS CEREMONY
(Newport
Beach, CA February 25, 2003)
OCTV Orange County TV, a new player on the scene
covering business, entertainment and hard news for Orange
County via Cable TV and Internet streaming media -- has been
chosen to cover the 55th Annual Directors Guild of America
Awards Ceremony on March 1, 2003, at the Century Plaza Hotel
in Los Angeles.
"This invitation places OCTV on the big playing field
with the elite media, and will bring attention to our up-and-coming
media company," says OCTV.com Producer/Owner Liz Rooney.
Adds Orange County Film Commissioner Janice Arrington, "This
is an especially prized media event. That OCTV has been invited
to cover it is a wonderful coup for OCTV.com and for the County
of Orange."
The announcement is important because of its place as the
precursor of the Academy Awards Director Awards. Only five
times since 1949 has the winner of the DGA Award not gone
on to win the Best Director Oscar®.
OCTVs celebrity host, Cherri Farah, will conduct interviews
throughout the evening with the nominated directors and DGA
members. Tune in to www.OCTV.com
for the latest in streaming media. Orange County TV is a product
of Newport Beach-based Out&About TV.
Out&About TV sprang onto the media scene in 1999 with
a concept that is much more than merely multi-media production.
The company provides entertainment news coverage/destination
information and business news in the Orange County area by
combining Internet streaming media and simultaneous television
programming.
Out&About TV Producer/Owner Liz Rooney explains: "We
believe that Orange County is ascending onto the world stage
in terms of international business development and visitor
destination planning. We intend to be the first there with
our products to serve and inform the County, and especially
the international community, about Orange Countys amenities
and business opportunities."
Currently, Out&About TV is producing an entertainment
show called Out&About Orange County in conjunction with
the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau
and their members. Production of this show is under contract
through 2005. The goal is to reach four target audiences
local residents, visitors, meeting planners, and the feature
film industry to promote awareness, tourism and increase
economic development.
For additional information please contact Liz Rooney, Out&About
TV, www.outandabouttv.net.
949.722.7788. info@outandabouttv.net.
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