New Location for Broadband Interactive Group to Include Expansive TV and Web Production Facility for Bluetorch Media and Home to Gotcha Brands.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2002 A 10,000-square-foot facility for production of Bluetorch programming and multimedia projects is underway at New Broadband Interactive Group HQ Also New Home to the Gotcha (jargon, programming) gotcha - A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome. Brands Broadband Interactive Group (BIG), developers of software solutions for delivery of streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. , electronic programming guides (EPGs) and video-on-demand for cable and satellite set top boxes, and integrators of media, consumer brands, various communications platforms and emerging technologies, today announced that the build-out of a new Technology and TV Production Facility for Bluetorch Media and a new Global Office and Showroom for the Gotcha Brands is underway at their new headquarters in Irvine. BIG acts as the holding company for Bluetorch Media, a new-media and marketing company and Gotcha Brands, a brand management company. BIG has dedicated 10,000-square-feet of its new space as a TV, video and Web production facility for Bluetorch Media, which produces Bluetorch TV programming and hosts the Bluetorch.com and Bluetorch.tv Web sites. The new space, to house the 7 station Avid Unity system and all Bluetorch.com Web production and hosting equipment, will provide Bluetorch the ability to bring all television, video and Web production and hosting capabilities in-house. The new headquarters will also house the head office and showroom for the Gotcha Brands, to include Gotcha, More Core Division (MCD MCD Minor Civil Division MCD McDonalds (restaurant) Mcd Macedonian (linguistics) MCD Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD Magnetic Circular Dichroism MCD Mad Cow Disease ), and GirlStar. All international licensing, product development, brand identity and marketing programs will emanate em·a·nate intr. & tr.v. em·a·nat·ed, em·a·nat·ing, em·a·nates To come or send forth, as from a source: light that emanated from a lamp; a stove that emanated a steady heat. from this office. The new location for all three companies is: 11 Cushing, Irvine, Calif., 92618 Contact Information: Broadband Interactive Group Bluetorch Media Dawn Fraser Dawn Fraser 949/579-1200 949/579-1222 dfraser@broadbandinteractivegroup.com dfraser@bluetorch.com Gotcha Brands Dawn Fraser 949/579-1212 About Broadband Interactive Group Founded in 1999, Broadband Interactive Group (BIG) developed an integration of emerging technologies with various communication platforms to include television, Web, live events and print media to create a "convergence" business model that incorporates programming with brand development and innovative marketing programs. To demonstrate convergence, BIG created Bluetorch, a media company targeted at the youth market sector. Bluetorch produces television programming, Web sites, live events and magazines coupled with unique integrated sponsorship packages. BIG also devotes man-years of software engineering time in development of converged media and interactive television (iTV) delivery solutions to include Electronic Programming Guides, Video-on-Demand and Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. Meta Information, for new-media over "fat-pipe" broadband connections See broadband and wireless broadband. via cable modems cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. , satellite and ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line . About Bluetorch Bluetorch was founded in January 2000, by Broadband Interactive Group (BIG) to demonstrate real world multimedia convergence. Targeted at the youth market, Bluetorch produces television programming, live events and Web sites, all tied together with innovative integrated sponsorship packages. These integrated sponsorship packages, linking extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). events, informational Web sites, live & delayed Web-casts, online sweepstakes, delayed television programming, all within the Bluetorch media network, have been very successful for clients such as Panasonic, Philips, Norelco and IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there , demonstrating new values to the competitive media and sponsorship market. |
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