Time4 Media's Mountain Sports Media Acquires Warren Miller Films; Bailey Pryor Named President, Warren Miller Entertainment.Business Editors BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002 Time4 Media's Mountain Sports Media Sports Media, Inc. (SMI) is a Sports Media and Marketing company that produces radio and television programming as well as representing professional athletes. 2002 Cowboys Live - Hosted by Dallas Cowboys Joey Galloway has acquired Warren Miller There are several people of note named Warren Miller, including
Mountain Sports Media is the publisher of SKI, SKIING, FREEZE and TransWorld SNOWboarding magazines. Warren Miller Films is known worldwide as the leader in adventure sport filmmaking and has just completed production on its 53rd annual Warren Miller ski and snowboard feature film. "This acquisition furthers our position as the world's leading snowsports media company," said Clurman. "It will allow us to strengthen and enhance our multi-media platform of magazine and book publishing, marketing and special events, the Internet and film assets. We are pleased to welcome the remainder of Warren Miller's staff, also based in Boulder, to our family." The acquisition completes Mountain Sports Media May 2000 acquisition of Warren Miller Entertainment and SnoWorld magazine. The combination will form a new Warren Miller Entertainment Group. Bailey Pryor, previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Warren Miller Films, has been named President, Warren Miller Entertainment, effective immediately. He will report to Clurman. Kurt Miller, previously Chairman of the independent group, will step down, but continue to develop film and television projects for the group. "We are excited about the cross-platform opportunities this move brings to us," said Clurman. "We'll continue to integrate the assets of Warren Miller into MSM MSM - Micronetics Standard MUMPS with events like TransWorld Live, an independent ski and snowboard film for college students, which was successfully launched last winter." Pryor joined Warren Miller Films in 1998. Previously, he was Vice President of Production at Tacamo Productions and a producer at Sonalysts Studios. A graduate of University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut is the State of Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 27,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 9,000 graduate students in multiple programs. UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. , Pryor resides in Boulder with his wife and two children. In addition to the annual ski and snowboard feature film, Warren Miller Films teamed up with ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and Touchstone on the two hour, prime-time MOW "The X-Team" and currently produces four television series on the Outdoor Life Network including Wild Survival with Corbin Bernsen, Warren Miller's Global Adventure, Toyota Presents: There and Back and Warren Miller Television. Other recent productions include the award winning On the Inside: Avalanches for the Discovery Channel, a children's series entitled The Adventures of Zimmo and 30 short films for Nike.com. Mountain Sports Media, a division of Time4 Media(TM) based in Boulder, CO, is the world's leading publisher of magazines and web sites for snow sports enthusiasts. In addition to publishing the world's leading snow sports magazines--SKI, SKIING, FREEZE, TransWorld SNOWboarding, SKIING TRADE NEWS, TransWorld SNOWboarding Business and SnoWorld - MSM has started a book publishing division, Mountain Sports Press. Mountain Sports Media's web sites include skimag.com, skiingmag.com, skinet.com, freezeonline.com, warrenmiller.com, snowtradenews.com and myskitrip.com. Events include NASTAR NASTAR National Standard Race (skiing) NASTAR National Aerospace Training & Research Center , US Freeskiing Open and the Warren Miller Film Tour. Time4 Media(TM) is a subsidiary of Time Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL). |
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