LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IC Places,
Inc. (OTCQB: PNCH) announced today that it has formed a partnership
with Empire Media Center to become the new home of the Imagine TV
Network. Imagine TV is a new TV network which will Inspire,
Motivate and Entertain its audience, built around the World's most
fascinating Motivators, Producers, Educators and Authors.
Under the agreement, Imagine TV will brand Empire Media Center
as the home of the Imagine TV Network. Imagine TV shows
filmed at Empire will be titled "Brought to you from
Empire Media Center in Glendale
California."
As promotional consideration, Imagine TV will be given full use
of the facilities to film and produce its in-house
productions.
Empire Media Center, located at 3915 San Fernando Rd.
Glendale, California features one
of LA's largest permanent green screens which has been used in the
production of TV shows, music videos, commercials, and photo
shoots. The studios offer full time news sets, fully
furnished interview sets, office spaces and large event
facilities.
IC Places, Inc. has also signed an agreement with Empire Media
Center to become the Company's new corporate headquarters.
IC Places Inc., which manages all Imagine TV assets, is
currently building launch sponsors relationships for the network as
well as bringing on board some of the top Motivators, Producers,
Educators and Authors in the wide arena of Self-Improvement.
The Reason Behind the Creation of Imagine TV
In the $9.84 Billion
Self-Improvement Market, technology is driving the way people
around the world produce, find, obtain and use self-improvement
content. More content than ever is flooding the market place, as
technology has made it possible for anyone to become an author, a
coach, a producer or an innovator. A great deal of
extraordinary content is becoming lost in the noise as content
offerings expand and crowd the marketplace.
The company felt there needed to be a singular, free of charge,
multi-media accessible point where consumers can experience the
best messages on the planet. A place where people who
are true fans of and believers in the power of
self-improvement content dig in and find the best of the best
delivered to the consumer free of charge no matter where they
are.
Imagine TV lets people see and hear speakers, authors, trainers
and motivators. It lets them decide for themselves if they like
what they are seeing and if they want more. Viewers get to
experience this for free in their homes or on their smart phones,
tablets or computers. If, after experiencing the shows on
Imagine TV, they like what they see and want more, Imagine TV gives
them the ability to fulfill that desire right away via the website.
At www.MyImagineTV.com they can immediately purchase and
download audio, videos and ebooks by the author or speaker they
were just watching on Imagine TV. Imagine TV is giving the
buyers of this $9.84 billion dollar
market place the best access to make the best decision about
whether or not they want more from these extraordinary experts.
"No matter where you are, who you are or what starting
platform you begin life from, you have a God given right to reach
your dreams. Imagine TV, in partnership with the world's most
fascinating Motivators, Educators and Authors, will deliver the
inspiration, education and motivation to help you find your path to
success."
Steven Samblis
Founder, Imagine TV
About the Self-Help Industry
In a 2013 press release titled "$10.4
Billion Self-Improvement Market Survives Scandals &
Recession - More Content & Services Being Delivered Online,
Finds Marketdata Enterprises," Marketdata Enterprises, Inc.,
a leading independent market research publisher since 1979,
released the 9th edition of one of its best-selling studies, a
382-page report entitled: The U.S. Market For Self-Improvement
Products & Services.
In the study it states: "Technology is driving the way
Americans produce, find, obtain and use self-improvement
content."
The study quotes:
MARKET VALUE: The total U.S. self-improvement market was worth
$9.84 billion last year, versus
$10.82 billion in 2007 — a 9.1%
4-year decline. We forecast better 6.1% average yearly gains from
2012 to 2016. The recession took a toll on most market segments,
including live seminars, books, infomercials, personal coaching,
commercial diet programs and stress management. However, growth was
evident in audiobooks, medical diet programs and holistic
institutes/training companies.
AUDIOBOOKS MARKET: This is now a $2.97
billion segment. After dipping 10% in 2009, sales have
rebounded strongly, 10% in 2010 and 13% in 2011. The APA says that
24+ million Americans now listen to audiobooks. Of this total,
self-improvement titles account for $445 million—or about 17% of all audio book
sales. 24% of Americans now listen to audiobooks.
This is the industry Imagine TV lives in. There is no
other Self-Help-based TV network on cable or broadcast today.
Imagine TV is not a religious network but will feature content that
Inspires, Motivates and Entertains.
About Empire Media Center
Empire Media Center is an all-inclusive media solution for
actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, models, and other
skillful talent to provide a venue along with the necessary means
of creating their vision and achieving their goals and intended
results. The company works hard and takes pride in providing our
talent and clients the resources necessary for them to realize
their full potential by creating a positive atmosphere that is
conducive to achieving excellence.
Empire Media Center has a team on site that hosts corporate
events and broadcasts TV shows their studios. The Studios
also offer on-site editing and voiceover/recording studio
spaces.
http://www.EmpireMediaCenter.com
Other Imagine TV Partners:
Primeau Productions
Imagine TV has formed a strategic partnership with Primeau
Productions to help speakers in creating content for the Imagine TV
Network. Primeau Productions is a provider of motivational and
inspirational audio and video production for professional speakers
and the meetings industry. Ed
Primeau, the company founder, has personally worked with
some of the great orators of our time: Og Mandino, Zig Ziglar and Les
Brown.
Primeau Productions is currently working with The Napoleon Hill
Foundation to restore 16 MM film to HD video of Napoleon Hill
lectures from 1959.
Today, Primeau Productions works with the best of the best in
the speaking industry. Professional speakers like Steve Rizzo, Floyd
Wickman, Mark C Thompson, Walter
Bond, Connie Podesta,
Jordan Belfort and Mark Sanborn, to name a few. Primeau Productions
has worked with the speaking and training industry creating audio
and video marketing, motivational and inspirational programming for
30 years.
FilmOn
Imagine TV has teamed up with FilmOn.com, an Internet-based
television provider who is providing the online broadcast platform
as well as the bandwidth of the broadcast. FilmOn offers
Imagine TV virtually limitless video-on-demand variety, and far
more media options and channels possibilities than traditional
media distribution outlets.
Reed's, Inc.
Reed's (www.reedsinc.com), maker of the top-selling sodas
in natural food stores nationwide, signed on as the first official
launch sponsor of the new Imagine TV network.
Reed's brews six carbonated ginger combinations using only the
finest ingredients. The six flavors are: Original Ginger, Extra
Ginger, Premium Ginger, Raspberry Ginger, Cherry Ginger and Spiced Apple.
These award-winning, top-selling beverages are found
internationally in gourmet and natural food stores. Reed's passion
for ginger comes from its incredible flavor and health-giving
properties.
About IC Places, Inc.
IC Places, Inc. is a trans-media entertainment complex that
produces entertainment content for distribution across multiple
media. The company trades on the OTCQB: Symbol PNCHD currently and
will be changing its PNCH shortly. (http://www.icplaces.com)
Through multiple long-term partnerships, clips and full episodes
of the company's shows are available to people outside the
traditional set top box. This exposure serves as both a profit
center and marketing component promoting the TV Network, its line
up and the company's new media-specific programming across multiple
platforms.
IC Places Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These
forward-looking statements are based on the current plans and
expectations of management and are subject to a number of
uncertainties and risks that could significantly affect the
company's current plans and expectations, as well as future results
of operations and financial condition. A more extensive listing of
risks and factors that may affect the company's business prospects
and cause actual results to differ materially from those described
in the forward-looking statements can be found in the reports and
other documents filed by the company with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no obligation to
publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether
as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Contact:
IC Places, Inc.
323-362-2428
info@icplaces.com
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