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Arnold goes Indie

Monday, June 30th, 2008

As first broke by NewscastStudio at NAB 2008, Stephen Arnold has launched a new indie styled news music package.

“The 15 themed music collection was developed for local stations to use during their newscasts and features live, album-style music recorded with an array of independent musicians, a complete change from the programmed music typical to most news media today.”

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Tags: Indie-Band, News package, sam, Stephen Arnold Music
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Gari Comm Rebrands

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Once known as Gari Communications, Frank Gari’s famous music company is now Gari Media Group.

“You may have known us as Frank Gari Productions, Gari Communications or Gari Media…but we’re now the Gari Media Group (GMG). As we look to the future of the broadcast industry, we are positioning our company to expand on our legacy music brand by adding a full range of creative service products as turn-key outsource solutions.”

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Tags: gari, gari media group, Music
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360 Music debuts new site

Monday, May 12th, 2008

360 Music Production, the company that purchased Your Brain on Music from Arnold, has launched a Web site.

The new site features samples of the six music packages currently available from the company. Visit 360 online at: http://www.360musicproduction.com/

Tags: 360, ybom
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615 is ‘Moving Forward’

Monday, May 12th, 2008

As first reported on NewscastStudio during our NAB 2008 coverage, WFOR in Miami has unveiled a new 615 Music produced package.

The new package features 8 themes and up to 100 cuts. The package is centered around a distinctive guitar riff. The riff is heard in all the main themes with many variations. 615 Music describes this package as an “energetic package with a distinctive Sonic Brand.” It is also interesting to see them use the words Sonic Brand…

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Tags: 615 Music, moving forward, news music, wfor
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FirstCom gearing up for affiliate news market

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

FirstCom, one of the industry’s largest and most well-known production music companies, is looking to expand its presence in the broadcast news market.

While the company has done work for some stations, including KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, and WFMY-TV in Greensboro, N.C., company spokesperson Todd Dunlap says his firm is looking to grow in this area.

While not going into specifics, the company hopes to expand its offerings of syndicated news music packages as well as increase its overall presence in the industry.

Tags: firstcom
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Arnold goes Indie

Gari Comm Rebrands

360 Music debuts new site

615 is ‘Moving Forward’

FirstCom gearing up for affiliate news market