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Upcoming Opportunities
New for 2023 - 24 Season
New shows for 2024 include:
Positively America is a weekly half-hour series focusing on all the good things happening in the USA that will improve people's lives with uplifting stories and interviews that inform, educate, entertain and inspire viewers with optimism and hope for a brighter tomorrow. Positively America is hosted by Emmy-award winning TV news anchor Ernie Anastos.
This uplifting show features the latest trends in social culture, family and relationships, education, health, fashion and consumer news, entertainment, technology and a look at the world tomorrow.
Details:
* Half-hour weekly show.
* 82% US coverage, with flagship station WPIX in New York!
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SMI Sports Unwired - This package includes World Chase Tag, Sportswrap Daily (M-F)
& Weekly (Sat-Sun) with Jason Page. This opportunity offers clients an unwired syndicated network of programming that will deliver 13 exposures per week with only one buy.
WORLD CHASE TAG - previously seen on ESPN and NBC sports, this show has a worldwide following. It is an hour long weekly series showcasing the best parkour and Ninja warrior athletes competing in exciting and extreme games of tag. Each weekly spot purchased receives 2 exposures, one in the first half hour and one in the second.
SPORTSWRAP with Jason Page - is a timely weekly and weekend sports wrap-up show recorded daily with expert commentary and highlights hosted by longtime NBC Sports and ESPN Radio commentator Jason Page. There is be a one hour version that runs each day
Monday-Friday, as well as a half-hour weekend version. Each advertiser will receive 2 spots per day in the strip, as well as a bonus spot in the weekend show.
We will be adding our newest show, the Triton Poker Series into SMI Sports Unwired when the show launches in April. This is a weekly one-hour series showcasing high stake poker matches with top players in tournaments at various venues around the world. The series inspires lovers of poker in the pursuit of preeminence with tables full of world class poker competitors, entrepreneurs and titans of business. They are truly the Purveyors of Poker Excellence!
This SMI Sports Unwired currently has a combined clearance of 93% of the US Markets and each weekly spot purchased will deliver 950+ local market exposures!
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Beat the Odds - hosted by veteran News Anchor Dave Hall, he will be joined in the studio by several experts including Jack Ross ("Fat Jack") and Ted Severansky ("Teddy Covers") and will features news, data and analysis, mixed with legendary sports and betting stories designed to educate and entertain bettors and sports fans at all levels. BEAT THE ODDS will pair their expert opinions with tales of sports and betting history focused on iconic wins, memorable upsets, bad beats and stories of odds makers and risk takers.
Beat the Odds has concluded it 13 week run for 2023-24 season, but will be returning this September for more sports action!
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SPECIALS
Besides our regularly scheduled weekly programming, these specials are coming up:
Women on the Move Magnificent Mother (May) & Black Music (June) Editions - one-hour special highlighting inspirational stories of three of America's most inspiring women. Broadcast Window: May and June broadcast months.
LOST & FOUND: The Search for USS Lagarto is the powerful story of the last battle of Lagarto and her crew, and of the families that were left behind with no graves to mourn, no bodies to bury, and the mystery of why no one escaped from the sinking sub. In 1944, the submarine USS Lagarto left a small shipyard in Wisconsin and traveled 8,000 miles to serve in the Pacific. While on war patrol, Lagarto engaged a Japanese convoy in a ferocious sea battle and all communication with the sub ended. For more than 60 years nothing further was known; families were simply told "Lagarto overdue from patrol, presumed lost." Then, miraculously, a British diver stumbled upon the remains of Lagarto and her crew of 86, entombed at the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand. Broadcast Window: May 4th - 26th.
Unknown Heroes: Behind Enemy Lines at D-Day - This half hour special tells an unearthed story of strategy and bravery. In May, 1943 the Allied Forces determined that a new type of soldier was required to win World War II. A special operations unit was formed consisting of specially trained Allied soldiers from various countries and was known as the Jedburgh Teams (forerunner to today's Green Berets). They were created with the specific purpose of conducting unconventional warfare behind enemy lines in German-occupied Europe. Operation Jedburgh parachuted three-man teams deep behind enemy lines to win no matter the challenge. They were able to make a significant change in WWII by successfully preventing Germany from reinforcing Normandy and repelling Operation Overlord, and the sacrifices many made in this little know effort. Broadcast Window: June 1st - 9th.
Juneteenth: Freedom Day - This half hour special explores the history of this federal holiday celebrating the effective end to slavery in the United States. It marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when in the wake of the American Civil War, Major General Gordon Granger led federal troops into Galveston to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed.
He ordered the final enforcement in Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation signed in 1863 by President Lincoln. This program explains the history and the legacy of this special anniversary, including interviews with historians and African-American descendants commemorating this special event.
Specials have limited inventory, so plan early. Contact us for rates and station line ups.