NAPTE VETERAN SEEKS DISTRIBUTION DEALS FOR LIVE MUSIC SERIES AND SIGNATURE DOCUMENTARIES FROM ME TELEVISION NETWORK
AUSTIN, TX (January 28, 2008) — Media industry veteran Constance Wodlinger announced today that she will be seeking distribution for the ME Television program catalog including it’s hallmark series ME Live! and ME Documentaries. ME, “Music and Entertainment” Television is a 24-hour network showcasing live performances and an entire catalog of genre specific programming. Wodlinger, the CEO of ME Television will be at NAPTE to negotiate regional distribution alliances.
Wodlinger’s companies have produced thousand of hours of original music programming that have aired in more than 50 countries. She negotiated the first-ever worldwide television music-licensing deal with VPL and IFPI and the deal, representing record companies around the world, was announced by the joint heads of all the major record labels at MIPTV in 1989.
ME Live!, a live-music concert series, showcases the hottest artists in the industry as well as legendary Texas stars. Featured artists have included Willie Nelson, Charlie Sexton, Spoon, Los Lobos, The Pinker Tones, Rodney Crowell, Patrice Pike, and Ray Benson & Asleep at the Wheel, to name a few. The multi-genre format brings the best in rock, country, Latin, and R&B to the world. In addition to Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum artists, ME Live! features the next generation of talent that are shaping the sounds of tomorrow. Many of the artists featured have a global fan base.
Taped live at many of Austin’s legendary venues like Antone’s, Stubb’s, the Continental Club and ME Television’s renowned soundstage, ME Live! brings the audience up close and personal with each artist by providing rare performance footage and exclusive interviews.
ME’s Documentaries, offers non-scripted, non-fiction programming by ME’s award-winning producers. The documentaries takes viewers from the little-known, hidden corners of society, to the incredible lives of the high-profile world of music and entertainment, ME Television’s documentaries capture the essence of reality providing glimpses of unique struggles, influences and successes.
Exclusive interviews and footage from jeweler to the stars, Anthony-Nak, to poets slamming their rhymes to the ever fascinating break-dancing phenomenon of the 80’s, ME unveils fascinating dimensions to these personalities, attracting a wide audience demographic.
“Live music programs and documentaries have always been popular with audiences and yet, well produced series of this kind were not readily available in the marketplace,” says Wodlinger. “ME Television fills that void.”