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OSTN TEAMS WITH CHICAGO IMPROV TO BROADCAST COLLEGE COMEDY CHAMPIONSHIPS | | | Cleveland – October 23, 2007 – OSTN, the leading provider of student-produced entertainment, educational and news IPTV content and services, today announced partnership with the Chicago Improv Festival Productions to bring the biggest college comedy competition in the world to its college audience. The College Comedy Championships (CCC) will be held at Loyola University’s Mundelein Auditorium and Columbia College’s Theatre and Music Center from November 2 through November 4. For details, visit www.myspace.com/collegecomedychampionship. CCC is a competition of comedy troupes from colleges and universities around the United States including troupes from Arizona, Indiana, Illinois, New York, South Carolina, and Florida. CCC is the largest student comedy competition in the world that will showcase top comedy talent on campuses. Many professionals in the industry see the competition as a scouting opportunity for the next generation of writers and talent for TV. |
Some of the troupes in competition are “Barren Mind” from Arizona State University (ASU), “Seriously Bent” from Suffolk University, “45 Kings” from Loyola University, “Cosby Sweaters” from DePaul University, “Awkward Science” and “Full Frontal” from Indiana University, “Charred Goosebeak” from Colgate University, “The Humor Artists” from the University of Notre Dame, “Mock Turtle Soup” from Clemson University, “Dropping $cience” from Columbia College Chicago, “On the Fly Improv” from University of Dayton, “Charles Darwin Experience” from University of Arizona and the “Titanic Players” from Northwestern University. |  |
| “The first annual College Comedy Championship is going to be a wonderful event that will showcase the hilarious talents of tomorrow's stars today,” said Executive Director of the Chicago Improv Festival Productions, Jonathan Pitts. “That we get to highlight the quarter-finals through the finals by telecasting them nationally and internationally on OSTN makes this opportunity for the college players and college teams that much more fantastic!” Julia Gustafson of Suffolk University shared her enthusiasm, “This is an amazing opportunity for Suffolk University's comedy team ‘Seriously Bent,’ and for everyone else involved, too. We're really excited for the experience that we'll gain from participating in the College Comedy Championship and for being on OSTN!” “OSTN is the minor league of film and TV that will benefit Hollywood’s top talent agencies like CAA (Creative Artists Agency), William Morris, UTA (United Talent Agency) and ICM (International Creative Management),” said Arun Kumar, OSTN President and CEO. “If you are looking for the stars of tomorrow, watch our channel. We see CCC as a valuable event that had to be taken to a national audience and we are happy to do that.” | | |
For more information on receiving OSTN, contact Anthony Davis, Vice President of Membership Development, at anthony_davis@ostn.tv or 216-973-7564.
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| | | | | About OSTN
OSTN is the leading provider of entertainment, educational and news IPTV content and services. OSTN features the only 24/7 worldwide channel exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. OSTN now is delivered to 42 million subscribers at more than 4,500 university member campuses and 37 countries around the globe. OSTN can be viewed on televisions and personal computers. In North America , OSTN uses Internet2’s advanced network to distribute programming to members. It uses ORION in Ontario, Canada and the GEANT2 Network, managed by DANTE, in the European Union. GEANT2 links to Asia via TEIN2, the Middle East & Africa via EuroMed, Latin and South America via ALICE and Australia via AARNet. For more information, visit www.ostn.tv. OSTN features a wide variety of programming genres ranging from news like “OSTN News,” to soap operas like “Ivory Tower” from HRTV at Harvard University, to dating shows such as “Blind Date” from YTV at Yale University, to talk shows such as “CU@USC” from Trojan Vision at University of Southern California, to news shows like “Northwestern News Report” from Medill’s School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
About Chicago Improv Festival Productions:
The Chicago Improv Festival Productions is a non-profit organization that produces the Chicago Improv Festival, the Teen Comedy Fest, and the College Comedy Championships. CIFP’s mission is to celebrate the present, honor the past, and showcase the future of improvisational theatre, in all of its multi-disciplinary expressions through local, regional, national and international perspectives; by presenting and producing performances and workshops for both the general public and practicing improvisational theater artists. For further information,
visit www.chicagoimprovfestival.org
or contact Jonathan Pitts, Co-Founder & Executive Director, jonathanpitts@sbcglobal.net,
or Justin Jackson, Artistic Director, at
justinjackson26@gmail.com.
| For more information on OSTN Programming, contact Maria Shuckahosee, Program Manager, at maria_shuckahosee@ostn.tv. | | | | |
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