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Italian American Network Formed - Fearuring Video Clips and Webisodes
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
Italian American Network (I A NET) will provide online content, originally
produced, with video clips and webisodes ranging from 30 seconds to four minutes in
duration per piece. ItalianAmericanNetwork.com will also include blogs, podcasts, interactive
games and user generated content in the comedy, music and other categories.
The
Clips will be dedicated to Food, Travel, Sports, Cooking, Must-See Videos,
Phrase of the Day, Our Community, Restaurant Reviews, In Shape (health and fit
living), Comedy, Music, Produce Pete, Video Blogs,
and Behind the Scenes,
A
substantial backer and participant is "The Italian Zone", an online
retail and e-commerce platform that will offer a variety of quality products
from
Italian American Network Formed
Business Wire - Press Release
April 17, 2008
The
Italian American Network (I A NET), a new, advertiser-supported, multi-platform
media company, has been formed to provide Americans, for the first time, a
vibrant daily window to the complete Italian and Italian American experience.
The new company has today launched its first media leg with the premiere of its
English language broadband video platform - www.ItalianAmericanNetwork.com. The
company is also committed to developing and launching a high definition (HD)
linear television network, a video-on-demand (VOD) offering, a mobile content
platform, as well as home entertainment and publishing initiatives. The
announcement was made today by Italian American Network Founder and CEO, Tony Ceglio.
A multiple Emmy Award winner, the Italian American Network's Mr. Ceglio remarked, "As someone who grew up in an Italian
American household, I have an intimate understanding of the countless
traditions and experiences that are part of a c ulture
that millions of Americans have fallen in love with throughout the years.
Embracing this experience, the Italian American Network will offer compelling,
contemporary lifestyle programming featuring the beauty, pleasures and passions
of a country and a culture that for more than 500 years have enriched our
country with the same. There is no lifestyle that has become more admired and
envied than the Italian La Dolce Vita - the sweet life." He added,
"Beginning with its initial broadband video launch, I A NET will celebrate
everything Italian in an entertaining and informative way, regardless of the
media platform."
As part of this mission, the Italian American Network will appeal to both the
26 million Italian Americans as well as the nearly 70 million Italophiles in the
Advertising & E-Commerce
The Italian American Network's completely
English-language broadband video platform is advertiser-supported, with charter
sponsors including: the Piemonte Italy Regional
Tourism Bureau, Perillo Tours and
ShopWineandDine.com. To celebrate the launch, Perillo
Tours is sponsoring a "Win a Trip to
Also part of www.ItalianAmericanNetwork.com is The Italian Zone, an online
retail and e-commerce platform that will offer shopping opportunities for a
variety of quality products from
Original Programming
Initially, www.ItalianAmericanNetwork.com will feature originally-produced,
English-language programming, updated daily and dedicated to multiple, in-depth
content categories including: Food, Travel, Sports, Cooking, Must-See Videos,
Phrase of the Day (Italian ones, of course), Our Community, Restaurant Reviews,
In Shape (health and fit living), Comedy, Music, Produce Pete, Video Blogs, Behind the Scenes, and even... Italian
Superstitions.
Nearly 100 percent of the online content is originally produced, world premiere
programming, with video clips and webisodes
ranging from 30 seconds to four minutes in duration per piece.
ItalianAmericanNetwork.com will also include blogs, podcasts, interactive games and user generated content in
the comedy, music and other categories.
Valerie Smaldone, a five-time
At launch, other celebrity hosts for IA Net online content will inclu de former star football (soccer) player Giorgio Chinaglia, star actor/screenwriter Chazz
Palminteri, television personality "Produce
Pete" Napolitano, "Biker Chef" Christopher Coppola and recording
artist/television host Rue DeBona.
About Tony Ceglio
Mr. Ceglio, prior to becoming the founder and CEO of
the Italian American Network, had more than 30 years of experience in the
broadcast television industry as well as a long history with the New York
Giants. He joined the Giants staff as the team's first Film Director in 1976
and introduced such innovations as the installation of a state-of-the-art film
laboratory and editing facility. He pioneered the process of in-house
television program production in the NFL while serving as the Giants first
director of broadcasting.
During his 27-year tenure with the Giants, Mr. Ceglio
designed the premier video sports editing system in the NFL that was put online
in 1986, the year that the Giants won their first Super Bowl championship. In
1986, he was elected as Chairman of the National Football League Video
Directors Committee. In this role, he authored practices, policies and rules
for all NFL video and, today most of the NFL teams employ a director of
broadcasting who uses Mr. Ceglio's business model.
Working with NFL Properties, Mr. Ceglio played a key
role on the task force which orchestrated a $17 million deal with Sony for the
league to switch from film to video. Mr. Ceglio, who
has served as executive producer on programs that have garnered 14 Emmy Awards,
went on to launch a sports film laboratory business based in
About The Italian American Network
The new multi-platform media company was founded by
its CEO Tony Ceglio to both entertain and inform
Americans by providing the nation's first and only daily window to the complete
Italian and Italian American experience. The Italian American Network has
already received overwhelming interest and support from the Italian American
community and, in turn, has established grassroots affiliations with millions
of Americans through such noted organizations as: National Italian American
Foundation, Order Sons of Italy, Columbus Citizens Foundation, National Trust
of Italy, Center for Italian and Italian American Culture, New Jersey Italian
American Heritage Commission, and UNICO, to name a few.
The company's headquarters are based in
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