Big Star Media Group Announces Ongoing Strategic Relationship with Steinberg North America

CLARKSDALE, Miss., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Big Star Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: BMGI) ("Big Star") a diversified entertainment and information distribution company, today announced a strategic marketing and promotional relationship with Steinberg North America ("Steinberg"), a recognized leader in the music and media technology industry, that will leverage the marketing, promotion, and online presence for each of the companies.

Steinberg has been instrumental in providing cutting edge technology and support for Big Star's media creation operations and post-production facilities in Clarksdale.  Big Star Media and Steinberg look forward to being able to leverage each of their corporate infrastructures to increase awareness by a variety of upcoming promotional activities including news releases, co-promotions, and ongoing exposure to their respective online communities.  Steinberg will continue to support the Company through ongoing access to their award winning products, and will provide additional promotional support through its marketing channels and in upcoming product launches.

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH has been providing award-winning, technologically advanced music and media production products for musicians and producers of music, video and film since 1984. Today, Steinberg is one of the world's largest manufacturers of audio software and hardware, with more than 1.5 million users worldwide. Steinberg also provides business customers with license management and copy protection systems. The Steinberg range of products has long since found world renown in all aspects of modern digital audio processing, and form the backbone of facilities specializing in music composition and production, mastering, restoration, broadcast, sound design, audio post for the film industry among many others.  

Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH is responsible for groundbreaking technologies such as VST and ASIO that offer flexible, cost-effective and intuitive ways of realizing your full creative and professional potential, and for the basis of countless production environments around the globe.

"Working with Steinberg has allowed us to expand our potential from a technology standpoint without complicating our approach to media creation," says Gary Vincent, senior vice president of Big Star.  "Our relationship with Steinberg has been fantastic, and we have a lot to offer one another going forward."  

"We continue to be great supporters of Big Star because our respective vision and opportunities are in such alignment," comments Brian McGovern, Marketing Manager for Steinberg North America.  "We're excited to be working together to expand the reach and exposure for each other."

About Big Star Media Group, Inc.

Big Star Media Group, Inc. is a multi-faceted entertainment and information distribution company focused on web-based presentations of live music events, the promotion of new musical talent, film production, and corporate messaging. Big Star Media Group holds several subsidiaries that are each focused on specific aspects of Big Star Media Group's strategic plan, including: Big Star Live, Big Star Records, Big Star Informative Media, Big Star Films, and Big Star Communications. Its various entities focus on everything from the webcasting of live music events, to promoting new musical talent, producing film, and performing corporate messaging. For more information, please visit: www.bigstarmediagroup.com.

About Steinberg North America

Steinberg North America distributes Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH products in the United States.  Since January 2005, Steinberg is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of audio hardware.  For more information, please visit: www.steinberg.net

Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, commonly identified by such terms as "believes," "will," "looking ahead," "anticipates," "estimates" and other terms with similar meaning. Although the Company believes that the assumptions upon which its forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these assumptions will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's projections and expectations are disclosed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements in this press release are expressly qualified by such cautionary statements and by reference to the underlying assumptions.

SOURCE Big Star Media Group, Inc.