Punch TV Network Announces Arrival Into the Windy City Just in Time For the Holidays
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- IC Places, Inc. (OTCQB: ICPA) is pleased to announce today, it's Punch TV Network has signed on new affiliate, WPVN in Chicago, Illinois. Punch TV Network will be available on channel 24.1 over WPVN Television in Chicago beginning December 2012, just in time for the Holidays. The Chicago market is ranked by Nielsen as the 3rd market in the US with 3,493,480 million TV Homes.
Launched in October 2011, IC Places' Punch Television Network will begin airing its new Fall season of programs in October 2012. Approximately 70% of this programming will be original. The shows include new detective shows such as Port City PD and Second District. The Hollywood Fast Lane and Luisa will link viewers more closely with the world of Hollywood. The dramatic series, Eros, will bring true stories of fairy-tale love. The Punch TV original, Filbert's Big Bash will enchant children through its family of lovable dinosaurs. The gangsters in Get Thee Behind Me will intrigue. Many more new shows will be available when IC Places' Punch TV Network begins airing its new season of programs.
About IC Places:
IC Places is a transmedia entertainment complex that produces entertainment content for distribution across multiple mediums. The company trades on the OTCQB: Symbol ICPA. ( www.icplaces.com )
On August 11th 2012, IC Places purchased Punch TV Network giving the company a broadcast TV network available in 50 million households. Punch TV Network has a roster of original programing which includes 36 new dramas, comedies, variety shows, talk shows, children's shows, and inspirational entertainment.
Through multiple long term partnerships, clips and full episodes of the company's shows are available to more than 300 million people a month outside the traditional set top box. This exposure serves as both a profit center and marketing component promoting the TV Network, its line up and the company's new media specific programming across multiple platforms.
One of the core components of this multiple platform approach is IC Places 350 city-based websites. These online "websites/TV stations" offer virtual keyhole views of life in each community they serve. These sites offer local, regional and national news, as well as programing. They deliver Punch TV to communities in which the network is not currently available through traditional means.
In May of 2012, IC Places signed a content distribution and development agreement with connectiVISION Digital Networks for their new Clear Vision Airport Network. connectiVISION Digital Networks for the Healthcare Industry expands that agreement by adding IC Places content to the Away From Home Television network in waiting areas of Hospitals, Doctors offices, Clinics and Care Centers across the country. This extended ad based network offers IC Places another another revenue stream for the shows it produces as well as additional exposure for its newly acquired Punch TV Network.
Additional partnerships deliver IC Places content to Checkout TV Network, HDTV network, Dining Network further expanding its footprint in breadth and depth to levels unimaginable as recent as a decade ago.
To complete its reach, IC Places signed a 2nd window and International Distribution Agreement with Spartan Bay, a company that will profitably deliver IC Places shows to markets around the world.
