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Wizzard Media Partners With CJM Productions to Distribute TV's Inside Music Row

Posted on: Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 09:00 CDT

Wizzard Media (AMEX: WZE), the world's largest podcasting network, has teamed with CJM Productions to distribute the syndicated country music news program, Inside Music Row. This weekly program features artist interviews, breaking news, and country music event highlights. Recent episodes included interviews with country music legends Charlie Daniels and Hank Cochran, hitmaker Rivers Rutherford, and featured many up-and-coming music stars, as well as entertainment news straight from the heart of Nashville. Inside Music Row currently airs in over 80 broadcast and cable markets, and will be distributed this summer, formatted as video podcasts, through Wizzard's multiple podcast and streaming video channels.

Through this new relationship, Wizzard Media will work on behalf of CJM Productions and Inside Music Row to secure advertising and sponsorship opportunities. Additionally, Wizzard Media will provide the series with marketing and advertising support to grow the program's online audience.

Founded in 1983 by Jeff Moseley, CJM Productions' impressive list of television series and specials include: Music Row Profiles, Soundcheck, Fantasy Vacation, 25 Years Around the World with the Bellamy Brothers, An Evening with the Gatlin Brothers, Legends Fest and the gospel music special, CrabbFest. These specials have aired on Great American Country (GAC), CMT, CMT International, America One, FamilyNet and the Gospel Music Channel as well as syndicated worldwide. CJM also produces Southern Lunch and The Best of the Gospel Singing Jubilee, currently airing on the Gospel Music Channel.

"We are very excited about our new relationship with Wizzard," said Jeff Moseley, Executive Producer of Inside Music Row and President of CJM Productions/Program Factory, LLC. "Since we started Inside Music Row a year ago, we continue to attract a diverse and very loyal audience. Each week we give our audience an inside look into all the country music happenings. By partnering with Wizzard, we can bring this show to a much larger audience than ever before."

"With the production companies that are coming on-board to our publishing and distribution platform with current television programming, we can provide viewers with the ability to watch their favorite programs anytime, anywhere, and on any screen. It is a very exciting time here at Wizzard as media groups like CJM sign up and launch digital versions of their programs," said Skip Fredricks, Sr. VP of Content Development for Wizzard Media. "Certainly advertisers are able to take advantage of the 24/7 access to the consumer that digital media presents. Additionally, television programs in current production and syndication can utilize on-line and mobile distribution as a valuable promotional and marketing tool to further engage and grow their audiences."

The audience for online video is more active than ever. comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, last week released February 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that U.S. Internet users viewed more than 10 billion online videos during the month, representing a 3-percent gain versus January (despite February being two days shorter) and a 66-percent gain versus February 2007. Further, 72.8 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.

About Wizzard Media

Wizzard Media is the industry's leading podcast hosting network, with an unprecedented one billion-plus download requests in 2007. Podcasts are a means for independent and professional content creators to publish audio and video shows for the world to enjoy over the Internet or on mp3 players, such as the Apple iPod and the Microsoft Zune. Podcasting is a relatively new phenomenon, but Wizzard Media collectively broadcasts millions of podcast downloads per day through media aggregators like Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Zune Marketplace and other podcast aggregators. For more information, please visit www.wizzard.tv. Wizzard Media is a division of Wizzard Software, a leader in speech technology development.

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Source: Business Wire

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