What’s up at Keen i Media

I wanted to let know about some new things at Keen i Media Ltd that I think may be of interest to you.

NEW PEOPLE
I am pleased to announce that Andrea Tracey-Stone is our new Sales Executive. Andrea brings more than 10 years of experience in media business including print and broadcast mediums, and a lifetime of knowledge and experience of the Grand Bahama market. She also worked in Abaco for more than four years. Andrea is a great addition to our team and we are excited about being able to increase our ability to serve you better.

Also, we are pleased to have Rico Thompson on our team heading up our media production area. Rico is a multi-talented young man that has already taken on advanced video and audio editing projects, still photography and video shooting jobs. Many of you may know Rico for his performances at Regency Theatre and as the headlining act at the Thursday evening show at the Casino at Our Lucaya. Also, Rico is the on-camera host of our all-new original show, Island View (see more below). We are excited to have Rico bring his wide array of talents to the Keen i Media team.

NEW VENTURE
Many of you may have already heard about the ’soft’ launch of Grand Bahama TV (GBTV) on September 1st. We’ve had an amazing response in less than three weeks! GBTV is a 24×7 online TV channel that streams video content that is totally focused on Grand Bahama. We also offer more than a dozen shows available on demand — you start, pause, rewind and stop them when you want. We have theatre shows, documentaries, local features and news programmes that will help you keep up and stay connected to what’s going on in Grand Bahama in a unique and entertaining way. As we build our repertoire of exclusive shows on GBTV, such as our wildly popular Island View show and several other new projects on the way, we’re sure you will agree that Grand Bahama is finally going to get the exposure and entertainment that it has been sorely lacking. Click HERE now to start watching GBTV now.

GBTV also provides an entirely new outlet for advertising and promoting your business. Through everything from 30- and 60-second TV spots, to infomercials, to public service announcements, church services and many other options, GBTV makes a powerful new medium available to the masses at a drastically lower cost than traditional TV-based advertising. For example: a 30-second spot on ZNS TV in Grand Bahama will cost you around $100 per showing. A 30-second ad on GBTV can run for an entire month — with unlimited showings — for just $450. That means in less than a week of nightly showings on ZNS TV you will have already paid for a month on GBTV. It’s a great value. Write to us at ads@grandbahamatv.com for more details or to make a booking.

NEW CAPABILITIES
In the last month we have added two great new features and capabilities to our range of services:

• Multi-camera video switching: we can now cover events that require multiple cameras (up to four), such as church services, conferences, panel discussions, TV shows, training situations and more. We can do this with our fully digital (meaning, excellent quality!) video switcher and either record this to digital tape or stream an event live to the web on GBTV or do both at once.
• Audio Engineering & Amplification Service:  Need sound for your next event? A press conference or panel discussion? Birthday or cocktail party? Graduation? Grand opening? We’ve got all the sound gear and expertise you’ll need to make that happen. We can also provide digital recording and audio CD duplication and custom packaging service. We’ve got more than 25 years of in-house experience in sound engineering so we’re confident we can handle it.

And, of course, we can put these things together to deliver multi-camera video shooting and audio engineering with live web streaming or recording. Our light can also help illuminate a stage for any of the above type of events. We can make it all happen and at very competitive rates.

NEW PROJECTS
We’ve completed a few new projects of interest recently:

• Mentioned above, Island View is our all-new TV show that takes you inside some of the more interesting and unusual places in Grand Bahama. With a fun, upbeat and entertaining style, host Rico jumps right in to what’s going on so you can see how things work. Our first two episodes are showing now on GBTV and available there on demand. New episode coming next week!
• Early in August we were contacted by a New York production company and hired to shoot a celebrity photo shoot at Atlantis, Paradise Island. We didn’t know it at the time but we soon found out that the celebrity was actually Kim Kardashian, model and star of reality TV. The footage of the photo shoot was shot entirely by Keen i Media and was then featured on PEOPLE Magazine’s PEOPLE TV on their web site. Check it out by clicking HERE.
• A few months ago we established a relationship with The Counsellors Ltd, a well-respected and experienced media production company in Nassau, to produce Grand Bahama-focused segments for their TV show, Bahamas@Sunrise. Bahamas@Sunrise airs live on Mondays and Fridays at 6:30am, and Monday’s show is  rebroadcast on Wednesday at 8:00 a.m. and Friday’s show airs again on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. To date, Keen i Media has shot more than half a dozen segments for Bahamas@Sunrise, including two just last week which will air soon on national TV.
• GBTV News is on the beat! We are now covering locally relevant stories that we think you want to see, whether it is an announcement from the GB Port Authority about the new bridge planned for the Grand Bahama Highway or the crowning of a new Miss Grand Bahama, GBTV News is there to get the story and deliver the most important information to you. We’re constantly developing this service to provide greater coverage and we would love to receive your reports and video from things around town. This segment of GBTV News that we’re calling iWitness News can include your cell phone video or video from your home cameras. Just capture the news as it happens and we’ll get it out to the people! E-mail us at news@grandbahamatv.com.
• Keen i Media designed, produced and hosts the all-new web site for The Garden of the Groves, launched just last week. The new site features a number of great photo galleries, FAQs, and a high resolution downloadable map of the Garden. Check it out at http://www.TheGardenOfTheGroves.com.

STAY IN TOUCH
If you want to stay in touch with what’s going on in the media business and at Keen i Media in particular there are a few ways you can do that. You can follow us on Twitter (@keenimedia), become a fan on Facebook, read our blog, check us out on YouTube, or watch GBTV for our latest productions. Oh yeah, you can phone us (242-351-5339), visit us at our studio on Queen’s Highway (Orlando House, next to OBS Marine), or e-mail us (info@keenimedia.com), too (isn’t it funny how those things seem so…quaint?).

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Finally, if you are in range of Love 97FM (or click HERE to listen to their online stream) tune in this Saturday, September 19 from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. when I will be the guest on ‘Nate Lewis in the A.M.’ talking about the arts and media in the Bahamas.

Take care,

~ejr~