Big Star Media Group Releases Expanded Corporate Summary

CLARKSDALE, Miss., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Big Star Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets: BMGI) (the "Company") a diversified entertainment and information distribution company, today announced an expanded corporate profile for investors.

Big Star Media Group is a multi-faceted music, film, and information communications company with a strategic focus on leveraging digital media technology to bridge the gap between authentic artists passionate about their music and the modern consumer.  Its various entities focus on everything from the webcasting of live music events, to promoting new musical talent, producing films, and performing corporate messaging.

Headquartered in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Big Star Media Group will help facilitate the dissemination of the area's rich blues heritage by creating, developing and exploiting multimedia platforms and providing for high-quality content delivery via the web and traditional media. The platforms will provide opportunities for the entire industry, but will be of maximum value when applying this infrastructure to the benefit of the company's proprietary content, technologies, and artists.  

Big Star Media Group's subsidiaries include: i) Big Star Live, ii) Big Star Records, iii) Big Star Informative Media, iv) Big Star Films, and v) Big Star Communications.

Big Star Live

Big Star Live strives to provide live streaming concert video of performances in music venues from across the country over the Internet. Big Star Live's website is being developed to allow the user to pick one of several different locations to see and hear live performances from that particular venue.

The Ground Zero Blues Club, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, is the first venue configured with the equipment used to carry the audio and video signals so they can be streamed live to viewers over the web. When performances are not occurring live, the user may select archived footage of prior performances. The site also contains a blog feature that is intended to drive interest in each venue's local music scene.

Additionally, Big Star Live will pursue opportunities for content distribution via Internet Protocol Television ("IPTV").  Big Star Live plans to participate in potential joint venture strategic partnerships in order to effectively combine media content with existing broadband subscriber infrastructure.

Big Star Records

Big Star Records is a musical talent development and production company. It is focused on the entire spectrum of each artist's career, beginning with locating, developing and recording new artists.  Once material has been produced, Big Star Records will endeavor to distribute the recorded music to the masses, provide artist development, management and agency support, in addition to marketing and promotional activities.  Big Star Records is unique in the industry in that it is dedicated to providing fair financial treatment to its artists.

Big Star Informative Media

Big Star Informative Media provides targeted messaging services on behalf of its customers to their intended audiences. Big Star Informative Media's plan of operations calls for business-to-business relationships whereby it facilitates the communication of targeted messaging, research, education, and analysis to specific recipients. The communication will typically educate a client's customer about certain issues related to the client's business environment, products, or services. The communication will be distributed through various electronic conduits and mediums such as Internet blogs, social networking sites, and corporate video systems.

Big Star Films

Big Star Films is a film production company that endeavors to write, develop, and execute projects for the big screen, television, web, and mobile platforms.  Big Star Films will pursue the completion of a series entitled 'Down to the Crossroads' which is hosted by Morgan Freeman and shot mostly at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The concept pairs a modern rock star with a blues legend and espouses the impact the blues legend had on the modern rock star's career.  Big Star Films envisions each season will include thirteen shows. They will also be adapted to be broadcast as radio shows and the Company expects it will have full rights to release the content for all forms of media existing now and in the future.

Big Star Communications

Big Star Communications will be a network and bandwidth entity focused on providing high-speed data connectivity to its customers. Big Star Communications was initially formed to facilitate the physical data communication of certain activities within Big Star Media Group. Currently, it is involved with a project to establish a high-speed wireless network in a Mississippi community that has poor broadband alternatives. Big Star Communications intends for the network to supply business and retail customers with reliable Internet connectivity at speeds of at least two megabytes.

As a whole, the Big Star Media Group benefits from a skilled team of music industry veterans lead by CEO Jeff Skillen, a highly regarded entrepreneur with experience in virtually all facets of the entertainment industry, including: digital media, A&R, management, sales, marketing and distribution. Currently the owner of SkillSet Enterprises, an entertainment and new media consulting company based in Nashville, he was previously Executive Vice President at Gibson Guitar Corporation where he held responsibility for worldwide entertainment relations and new technology initiatives. He has also served as General Manager of a joint venture label with Warner Bros. Records, Nashville.

"The team behind Big Star Media Group is passionately committed to developing quality talent and deploying technologies that will expose them to the broadest fan-base possible," said Skillen. "Each of our subsidiaries is strategically integrated in order to maximize opportunities in this rapidly evolving marketplace.  As developments unfold, we look forward to providing the public with more information about Big Star, including investor-facing assets, which will be released as soon as they are available."

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 the Company'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.

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," "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.

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