Chicago MediaHub Project Raising $50K For New Social Media Driven "Independent Talk" Station
http://www.fundable.com/groupactions/groupaction.2009-09-26.5510390477
The Chicago MediaHub Project (http://groups.google.com/group/chicagomediahub) is a new Chicago-based "Social Media Station" with the following purposes:
1) Create a media platform capable of producing and distributing quality journalism, entertainment, and community-oriented media programming via a cutting-edge production and distribution framework; utilizing new and existing creative and technology resources based in Chicago.
2) Act as a catalyst for media production, distribution, and job training in Chicago; through engaging community, corporate, and internationally-recognized standards organizations for employment re-training and ongoing excellence in content production and distribution.
3) Create, teach, learn, and re-organize the media landscape through new citizen-powered business, community, and media production models.
4) Finance, grow, and mentor new production companies, organizations, and individual properties; through pooled funding, financial planning, and tiered micro-financing of projects and producers, projects and individuals.
5) Host and distribute programming and resource-based educational resources on a fully-integrated technology platform.
6) Continuously evolve through input, organizational change, and creative self-analysis.
STATUS UPDATE:
In August 2009, Founder Scott Foval, President of The Foval Group Inc., announced that CMHP signed a development partnership to bring a new Internet talk radio station to the Chicago media market. The Foval Group Inc. is the current Corporate holder of the wsRadioChicago.com Station Agreement with wsRadio Inc. (http://www.wsradio.com), the world's largest provider of Internet talk radio to Live365.com, iTunes, and numerous other online websites.
This fundraiser is to fund an initial franchise payment to activate the agreement with wsRadio Inc., and launch the station's wsRadioChicago .com "Chicago's Independent Talk" this fall. This payment secures the deal, which has a funding deadline of December 31, 2009 to be maintained. The project is raising money both through donations for the project, and through private investment in the station. The project, which is Chicago's first "Social Media Station," not only includes wsRadioChicago.com "Chicago's Independent Talk," but also a Spanish-language channel, and an Arts/Entertainment channel. Each channel will feature local hosts, producers, technologists, engineers, and talent; all aired online and across a multitude of social media platforms, mobile handsets, Internet/Cable/Fiber/Wireless connected media devices and networks, portals, and in the future possibly even via syndication across the globe!
You can learn more about this exciting new development in our story by reviewing the posts on groups.google.com/group/chicagomediahub, as well as at ScottsBigMouth.com. In addition to wsRadioChicago.com, we hope to launch a Spanish-language talk radio station, based in Chicago, and creating Spanish-language talk radio content in collaboration with wsRadio in other areas of the country. We also intend to launch an Entertainment channel, featuring Chicago's unique music and entertainment scene. Most importantly, we are working with wsRadio and other providers to launch the very first Chicago-based "Social MultiMedia Station" which will broadcast our stations' content around the globe through its associated websites. Our partners at AdAnonymous (http://www.adanonymous.com) are coordinating those efforts to build Social Media into the "fabric" of all of our programs and channels, as well as supervise the build-out of wsRadioChicago.com and relaunch of ScottsBigMouth.com for our future audience.
As we are in pre-development of the wsRadioChicago.com operation here, and for the other stations as well; we are in search of investment and content partners to hep us with this groundbreaking project. Our initial budget for first-year operations includes the build-out of the station, ownership of the wsRadioChicago.com talk radio license, coordination of new program creation, the station launch, and social media operations with our partners. Our 18-month plan includes additional wsRadio.com talk radio franchises around the country, and expanding our social media programming and channels.
In the future we will offer sponsored programming, LIVE video simulcasting, syndication of our content, and multi-site support for our programming across mediums such as mobile, VOD, Internet, podcasts, advertising platforms, satellite, cable, and terrestrial broadcast media (traditional radio and TV). Our programming will be diverse, empowering, progressive, and open; allowing ANYONE who wants to host and produce a show, the ability to do so with a professional production platform.
For more information, please review the documents on this site, and feel free to post your comments and questions. You may also contact me directly, as the owner of The Foval Group Inc. and Founder of The Chicago MediaHub Project; via email scott@foval.com, or telephone 1-773-570-0011 (Google Voice Number). It is our hope that you will find our project and teaching platform as a valuable and worthy resource in the Chicago community.
Thank you for your consideration of helping us fund the Chicago MediaHub Project!
Scott Foval
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The Foval Group Inc. / Chicago MediaHub Project
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