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blogTV Broadcasts National ROCK SUMMIT Live

Posted on: Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 09:00 CDT

PENSACOLA, Florida, August 26 /PRNewswire/ -- blogTV, the popular live (http://www.blogtv.com/)broadcasting platform will broadcast The 1st Annual National Rock Summit Festival kicking off Labor day Weekend. The summit will begin in beautiful downtown Pensacola, Florida, at 2pm EST on August 30th, 2008.

Over 100 bands from across the country will be performing at the National Rock Summit in the streets of downtown Pensacola and at participating venues, such as; Bedlam, Top of the Town, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola Cultural Center, and Seville.

The Rock Summit (http://www.blogtv.com/People/ROCKSUMMIT) visitors will have a chance to text votes from their cell phones to choose the Rock Summit winners. The winning band will be announced at the end of the show and will receive a slot on next year's local Rock Summit Tour and their choice of a cash prize or an independently contracted marketing deal.

Guy Eliav, CEO of blogTV (http://www.blogtv.com/) said: "The Rock Summit broadcast is aligned with our company's mission of bringing the most entertaining and interesting live broadcasts to our rapidly growing audience." Eliav added, "Our community members demonstrate great interest in such events as they inspire them to generate high quality content themselves where they directly interact with their peers and their audiences. Our recent stats which show that site visits more than doubled in the last 2 months, have strengthened the notion that quality drives growth, and our forte is clearly the high quality of our broadcasts and the community's level of interaction, which we plan on further prompting."

With the blogTV unique chat feature, the viewers of the show will be able to directly interact with the broadcasters and with other viewers along the show.

Rock Summit Founder, Derrick Knight said, "Rock Summit is an interactive entertainment experience which reflects the positive effects of the changes in the music industry and the growth of online music." He continues, "The blogTV broadcast will allow these cross country bands to feature a live show to a worldwide audience. I think that the most entertaining thing about the Rock Summit live broadcast, is offering viewers to watch bands from across the country on one broadcast venue."

About blogTV.com

Launched in June 2007, blogTV.com is a leader in live UGC social networking and is a popular web location where viewers from all over the world can come share their personal talents and opinions, LIVE!

BlogTV.com enables anyone with a Webcam or a DV cam to create and broadcast his own live online show. No download is required to launch a broadcast. The LIVE show platform incorporates an option to invite a co-host to your show, an easy-to-use chat room to stay in touch with your viewers and embeddable tools allowing distribution of your content all over the web.

BlogTV.com is a well-recognized platform that has won several awards worldwide including the 3gsm "Best Made for Mobile" award and "New Trend Leader" award at the GMCA, Seoul digital forum.

Contact: Haim Mashiah, Head of Marketing, haimm@blogtv.com , +1-646-736-7449, and +1-646-652-6160.

BlogTV.com

CONTACT: Contact: Haim Mashiah, Head of Marketing, haimm@blogtv.com ,+1-646-736-7449, and +1-646-652-6160.

Source: PRNewswire

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