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NorthStar Studios named production provider for Country’s Family Reunion 11th Series
Nashville, TN (January 20, 2010) Country’s Family Reunion, the franchise that produces the popular reunion television and video series, announced today that they will go into production for their 11th Country’s Family Reunion series. The series is being produced at NorthStar Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in a HD multi-camera format. Executive Producer Larry Black says, “We have had extraordinary success with the 10 other country music reunion series that we have produced and the demand for more shows has grown even bigger”. CFR features country music’s greatest performing legends and brings them together to share stories, music, and their life’s experience in the country music industry. Season 11 of Country’s Family Reunion will feature some of the biggest country music legends, such as Vince Gill, Lorrie Morgan, Brad Paisley, BJ Thomas, George Jones, Ray Benson, Charlie Pride and Billy Grammer, all while being hosted by fan’s favorite and country music’s own Bill Anderson. Shot in “the round” the series showcases each country music star’s story, their inspirations, and the music that make them the legends that they are today.
“The Country’s Family Reunion series is a production that we value having at NorthStar Studios,” says Grant Barbre, President of NorthStar Studios, “This incredibly popular show series utilizes all of our HD services, from our studios and cameras to our HD post production suites. We are providing CFR with all the tools to produce a world class production”. Black goes onto say that, “NorthStar Studios is a state of the art production facility that can handle the size and talent of our production”.
Production Highlights:
- Executive Producer: Larry Black
- Producer: Jamie Amos
- Directed by Jim Yokey
- Host: Country music legend Bill Anderson
- HD series and DVD release target date: Summer 2010
- Pre-order by going to CFRVideos.com
Country’s Family Reunion produces a new series at NorthStar Studios
Nashville, TN (January 18, 2010) Country’s Family Reunion entertainment franchise is producing a new “reunion” series called CFR’s Songwriter’s Reunion. The series is produced in HD in a multi-camera format at NorthStar Studios. The highly successful series is focusing on some of country music’s biggest songwriters telling their stories, inspirations, and sharing the background on how they were able to write and produce their music. The Songwriter’s Reunion show is hosted by country music legend Bill Anderson and will be released in early summer of 2010. Larry Black, Producer of CFR’s Songwriter’s Reunion says, “The Songwriter’s Reunion show is long over due in bringing tribute to the people who wrote this music. There would be no music industry without the writers, and this series showcases their incredible rich talent and moving stories”. Over 23 music writing legends are being featured in this series that will be broadcast nationally and released as a DVD series. “No other production studio in Nashville could support such a large production so seamlessly” says Black. “We recently completed our multimillion dollar HD production conversion and CFR’s Songwriter’s Reunion show is the perfect production to showcase our new equipment”, says Grant Barbre, President of NorthStar Studios.
The Songwriter’s Reunion series includes stories and songs from many songwriter legends. Vince Gill (“Go Rest High On That Mountain”), Hank Cochran (“I Fall to Pieces” for Patsy Cline and “Make the World Go Away” for Eddie Arnold), Don Shultz (“The Gambler” for Kenny Rogers), Curly Putman (“The Green Green Grass of Home” for Tom Jones and Porter Wagoner), Sammy Throckmorton and Wayne Carson (“Always On My Mind”) are just a few of the amazing writers who tell their story about the songs that they have written. Black goes onto say “Beyond the great stories these writers tell and sing, this is like a Master Class in song writing where these legends share the roads they took to get their songs to the people”.
Production Highlights:
- Show series title: CFR’s Songwriter’s Reunion
- Website: www.CFRvideos.com
- Executive Producer: Larry Black
- Producer: Jamie Amos
- Directed by: Jim Yokey Studio: NorthStar Studios, Nashville (www.NorthStarStudios.tv)
- Number of Cameras: 8 (in HD)
- Crew size: 100
NORTHSTAR STUDIOS TO PROVIDE NETWORK ORIGINATION FOR BIZTELEVISION
NASHVILLE, TN - Newly launched television network BizTelevision based in Dallas, Texas has announced that Nashville, Tennessee’s television production facility, NorthStar Studios, has been selected as their broadcast network origination provider. BizTelevision delivers relevant business news to a broad demographic audience.
“NorthStar Studios meets all of our broadcast needs, says Vice President and General Manger of BizTelevision Justin Murf. “NorthStar Studios strong experience in Network Origination and exceptional production services provides us with a full service broadcast option that we require to offer our television audience a quality broadcast.”
BizTelevsions’ soft launch occurred in late fall of 2009. The network has already signed twelve new broadcast markets and plans a presence in every major market by 2013. BizTelevision programming combines Main Street with Wall Street and provides specialized programming for business professionals, families and retirees. The network will also deliver a children’s weekend programming schedule to teach children the basic lessons about money and savings. BizTelevision plans to produce several of the planned shows at NorthStar Studios.
Grant Barbre, President of NorthStar Studios is pleased about the addition. “We consider BizTelevision a natural fit for our growing Network Origination business unit. Network Origination services combined with our ability to produce shows live or taped for BizTelevision creates a win/win for both companies. BizTelevision fills an important niche in this economic climate where viewers are eager to learn more about money management, investment opportunities and entrepreneurship.”
NorthStar Studios is Nashville’s largest full service television production providing HD and SD broadcast services including network origination, studio production, post production and field production support.
WITH HELP FROM BRITA’S “FILTERFORGOOD” CAMPAIGN, NASHVILLE’S GABRIEL ENTERTAINMENT AND NORTHSTAR STUDIOS GOES GREEN
Gabriel Entertainment and NorthStar Studios will have their first green video shoot beginning the week of January 18th thanks to the help of Brita and their “FilterForGood” campaign. Gabriel Entertainment producer, Jamie Amos, contacted Brita’s representative to enlist their help after receiving a reusable water bottle and signing a pledge to reduce bottled water waste from the Brita tent at last year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
“I’ve used my Brita water bottle every day since I took the pledge. When this shoot came up, I thought this would be a great opportunity to continue and expand Brita’s goal in reducing bottled water waste” said Amos. “Our executive producer, Larry Black, has been very supportive in the effort and understands that using reusable bottles not only benefits the environment but also helps on the amount of bottled water unnecessarily wasted and discarded on video shoots.”
In addition to using the donated 180 reusable water bottles and filtered water pitchers donated by Brita, the shoot will be recycling all recyclable products and using biodegradable coffee cups, plates and recycled paper goods.
Brita partnered with Nalgene to launch the FilterForGood campaign, which encourages people to reduce their bottled water waste by switching to reusable bottles filled with filtered water. Since the campaign launched in 2007, more than 170,000 people have taken the pledge to reduce their bottled water waste, keeping an estimated 180 million disposable bottles out of landfills. Visit filterforgood.com to learn how you can make a difference.
NorthStar Studios First in Nashville to Install Digidesign VENUE Systems for Television Production Service
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - NorthStar Studios, Nashville’s largest full service television production facility, has announced the purchase and installation of a new state of the art audio production system – Digidesign VENUE. “This is a first in Nashville and NorthStar Studios is on the cutting edge of audio support for television production in the US” says Grant Barbre, President of NorthStar Studios. “The Digidesign Venue audio systems are an incredible addition to our production facility enabling us to support a variety of live and taped productions in all three of our control rooms with pristine audio support. This is a serious investment in our studio which we expect will attract clients who produce major music and concert multi-track productions for television broadcast.”
The VENUE system is designed to answer the needs of modern live sound television studio applications the state of the art system is shaping the future of live performance audio. This highly expandable and customizable system comprises the D-Show™ mixing console, local and remote I/O racks, artist-driven PQ monitoring, and Pro Tools® recording interfaces. With numerous hardware options for every system component, VENUE offers the ultimate in flexibility for all types of live sound applications. “VENUE features, such as Virtual Soundcheck and native storage and control of TDM Plug Ins are wonderful assets for any live event workflow – particularly music for television. So it goes without saying, that we’re thrilled to have a broadcast facility the caliber of NorthStar Studios adopting and employing VENUE, especially in one of the greatest music cities in the world,” comments Robert Scovill, Market Manager for Live Sound Products for Digidesign.
VENUE leverages Digidesign’s core technologies and delivers the quality and flexibility that are Digidesign’s hallmark coupled with unique features, such as TDM effects plug-ins, artist-driven PQ monitoring, and seamless recording and playback integration with industry-standard Digidesign® Pro Tools systems. NorthStar Studios has installed the Venue system into all three of its control rooms which allows NorthStar Studios to produce three independent studio productions at the same time.