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High Noon Productions and Get Real Entertainment Tap Comcast Media Center for New Trivia Unwrapped Game Show 52 New Episodes of Popular Unwrapped Series Also Scheduled
Shows, Hosted by Marc Summers, Part of Food Network’s Popular Fare
Denver, Colo., June 10, 2003 — High Noon Productions and Get Real Entertainment are producing 52 episodes of a Hollywood-style game show in Denver, at the Comcast Media Center (CMC). Trivia Unwrapped will be a 30-minute companion to the popular Unwrapped series on Food Network. High Noon, which has been selected to produce more than 400 episodes of programming by several cable networks for the 2003-2004 season, will also produce the studio-based segments for 52 new episodes of the original Unwrapped series at the CMC this spring.
Get Real Entertainment’s Executive Producers Jean Wiegman and Marc Summers, who also hosts the Unwrapped series, know game shows and what it takes to make them. Summers has hosted and produced games show for Nickelodeon (Double Dare, What Would You Do, Wild and Crazy Kids), the Game Show Network (Wintuition) and TNN (Ultimate Revenge), among others. Wiegman, who has produced a wide variety of programming, including Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club, led the team of LAbased writers and producers that created the game and recruited experts in game show production to assist the Denver-based crew. Get Real and High Noon selected the Comcast Media Center for its competitive rates, convenience and quality. But they became even more impressed once production began.
“We knew that the Comcast Media Center had the best equipment you can find anywhere, but what has really made a difference is its people,” Summers said. “They are experts in production and are always ready, no matter what comes up,”
The CMC is our home, so we know what it has to offer” said Duke Hartman, a partner of High Noon Productions, which also leases office space at the facility. “But what impressed us the most is how little we needed to add to its resources in order to produce a game show, which is one of the most demanding studio productions.”
Summers and Hartman also agreed that having in house graphics and music composition in-house is a huge benefit offered by the CMC. “When you need to make a change you’re going down the hall instead of across town, which is a major consideration in keeping to a production schedule,” Hartman explained.
The Comcast Media Center’s 305,000 square-foot facility, the region’s largest, features four studios, digital on-line post-production edit suites, audio bays equipped with 16-24-32-track capability and ProTools workstations, including an original composition studio. Its HD capabilities include an Avid DS|HD system that can conform and finish programs at multiple uncompressed HDTV formats and supports 24p progressive scanning. The CMC also features Motion Capture and Virtual Set technology and an Interactive Sandbox that transmits HTML data and files for creating enhanced television programming.
About Comcast Media Center
Comcast Media Center (CMC), a unit of Comcast Cable, provides network origination services, global transmission via satellite and terrestrial fiber optics, broadcast quality studio, mobile and post production services, interactive television applications and streaming distribution capabilities. CMC’s HITS (Headend in the Sky) digital platform, founded in 1994, delivers 150 digital services to more than 2,000 cable system headends. More information is available at: http://www.comcastmediacenter.com/
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Headquartered in Philadelphia, Comcast Cable is a division of Comcast Corporation, a developer, manager and operator of broadband cable networks and provider of programming content. Operating in 17 of the United States' 20 largest metropolitan areas, Comcast is one of the leading communications, media and entertainment companies in the world. Providing basic cable, Digital Cable, high-speed Internet and telephone services, Comcast is the company to look to first for the communications products and services that connect people to what’s important in their lives. The company’s 55,000 employees, in six divisions, serve more than 21 million customers.
FOOD NETWORK (www.foodnetwork.com), is a unique lifestyle network where viewers will always be surprised and engaged by likeable hosts and personalities and the variety of things it does with food. The network is committed to exploring new, different, and interesting ways to approach food - through pop culture, adventure, travel - while also expanding its repertoire of technique-based programs. Now distributed to more than 78 million U.S. households, FOOD NETWORK ranks first among adsupported cable networks on year-to-year subscriber growth. With headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Knoxville, FOOD NETWORK can be seen internationally in Canada, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Monaco, Andorra, France and the French-speaking territories in the Caribbean and Polynesia. The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE:SSP), which also owns and operates Home & Garden Television Network (HGTV), Do It Yourself (DIY), and Fine Living, is the managing general partner.






