Major League Baseball Advanced Media and CenterStaging Team to Launch rehearsals.com; rehearsals.com Allows Music Fans a ''Behind the Scenes'' Look at Their Favorite Musical Artists
Since its launch in 2001, MLB.com has rapidly become a major internet force attracting more then seven million daily viewers. Recognizing the enormous amount of both sports and entertainment music fans, MLB has aggressively developed creative internet solutions appealing to the tandem audiences. In a marketing commitment to reach the largest audience of fans, both rehearsals.com and MLB.com will offer internet links to direct their respective traffic to its sister website. Earlier this year, MLB Advanced Media entered into an agreement with music merchandiser, Signatures Network.
CenterStaging's rehearsals.com presents a unique gateway into the professional artist's workshop & rehearsal. rehearsals.com provides high-definition streaming video as well as digital audio programming, exclusive performances, candid artist interviews and intimate lessons from the masters. rehearsals.com was created specifically to capture talent during the rehearsal process and includes a vast array of music programming from pop stars and emerging artists to legendary acts and hard rock. A sample of current programming includes: The New Cars, debuting their new single, "Not Tonight;" R&B legends Earth, Wind & Fire fine-tuning their classic jam "Let's Groove;" and all-female revue the Pussycat Dolls as they prepare to hit the concert trail. The legendary Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers thirty year anniversary campaign will also include footage shot at the facility as well Panic Channel -- the hot new act from "Rock Star's" Dave Navarro. CenterStaging generates content for rehearsals.com from their Burbank, CA, rehearsal and production facility. The 150,000 square foot campus features 11 rehearsal studios, one sound stage, a high-definition broadcast center, thousands of musical instruments and backline equipment.
According to CenterStaging CEO Roger Paglia, "CenterStaging's strategic mission is to capture a piece of the worldwide multibillion dollar digital marketplace. We partnered with MLB.com because Bob Bowman and his team are second to none and have demonstrated an unsurpassed track record in the digital marketplace. They have shown an extraordinary ability to create long-term business and revenue growth through the delivery of streaming video and other advanced forms of online programming and e-commerce."
"Our partners at rehearsals.com have exceptional facilities and vision," said Bob Bowman, CEO of MLB Advanced Media. "Their reputation in the entertainment industry is terrific, and together we are determined to serve music fans in the same way MLB.com feeds the passion for Baseball, our National Pastime. It's a natural fit. Every rock star wants to be a championship athlete, and vice versa. Getting into business with rehearsals.com demonstrates our belief in the importance of interactive, digital content and nonstop distribution through leading-edge technology."
About MLB.com
Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of Baseball's Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com, and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game summaries, extensive historical information, and exclusive features about Major League Baseball events and programs, including on-line ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live and archived radio broadcasts of every game, live and archived video webcasts of entire games, pitch-by-pitch enactment of games, and hosted post-game video highlight shows. MLB.com offered more live events on the Internet than any other website in the world.
About CenterStaging Corp.
CenterStaging Corp. (OTCBB:CNSC) is a public company based in Burbank, CA, with an office in Bensalem, PA, and is the parent company of CenterStaging Musical Productions, Inc. and its division rehearsals.com. The Company provides rehearsal and production services for all facets of the entertainment industry. The 150,000 square foot facility features 12 rehearsal studios and sound stages, a high-definition broadcast center, thousands of musical instruments and backline equipment in Burbank, CA. The facility houses rehearsals.com which is envisioned as a gateway into the professional artist's workshop, and provides streaming video as well as digital audio programming, exclusive performances, candid artist interviews and intimate lessons from the masters. The teaming of CenterStaging and rehearsals.com mounts a powerful vertically integrated entertainment model that not only develops and produces content, but also delivers compelling programming to an online audience.
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