FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gary Master, Publisher
(719) 495-5050
AGiLE TV Productions Goes Behind the Scenes of the Logistics Industry with the Premiere of Move it!
--Series hosted and co-produced by Emmy® Award Winning TV Personality Steve Thomas--
January 12, 2012 -- AGiLE TV Productions, a subsidiary of AGiLE Business Media, LLC, today announced the premiere of Move it!, a new web-based series that explores the science and art of the $986 billion-a-year U.S. logistics business.
From light bulbs and gourmet foods to refrigerators and cars, Move it! reveals the story behind how the products and resources we use every day get where they need to be. Each half-hour episode of Move it! will take viewers inside the operations of leading companies and introduce them to the people, cutting-edge technologies, and surprising strategies that help keep our home and work lives convenient, safe, and running smoothly.
An exclusive, by-invitation-only premiere of the pilot is set for 4 p.m., Monday, February 6, 2012, in a 400-seat theater at MODEX, a new logistics, material handling, and supply chain conference and trade show at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The pilot’s world premiere online will take place February 6, 2012, at 6 p.m. EST at www.MoveItShow.com. It will be available for on-demand viewing immediately after the premiere.
The pilot episode of Move it! takes viewers on an all-access tour of the logistics nerve centers of several leading companies and organizations: consumer products distribution giant Amway in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the United States’ most technologically advanced ocean port facility, the Port of Virginia; Old Dominion Freight Line; and national online natural health products distributor iHerb in Moreno Valley, Calif.
Move it! marries the high production quality and entertainment values of television with the flexibility and easy access of current digital technologies and consumer devices. Viewers will be able to watch Move it! via any device capable of streaming video—from smart phones, to tablet devices, to computer screens and web-enabled televisions.
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Move it! is hosted by well-known TV personality Steve Thomas, formerly of PBS’s “This Old House,” and co-produced by David Maloney, senior editor of DC Velocity, the leading logistics magazine brand in the United States. Both Thomas and Maloney will serve as executive producers. The pilot show will be broadcast via DCV-TV.
“AGiLE Business Media is committed to providing the logistics industry and the millions of people who depend on it with the highest-quality content across all media platforms,” said Gary Master, executive VP of AGiLE Business Media and publisher of DC Velocity and CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly. “With Move it!, we hope to engage and entertain people both inside and outside of the profession and provide new insights into this fascinating business that touches every part of modern life.”
“I am excited to partner with AGiLE to produce this ground-breaking show,” said Thomas. “It promises to deliver compelling stories in a way that has never been done before. Viewers will be fascinated to see and learn how businesses “Move it!” to get them the things they use and rely upon in everyday life. Logistics is nearly a $1 trillion business in the United States. That’s 17% of GDP! Even tiny efficiencies in the supply chain translate to huge bottom-line savings, and thus, anyone in the business — and lots of general viewers — will want to learn of the latest advances in this highly technology-driven business.”
Initial founding sponsors for the show include Old Dominion Freight Line, Hytrol Conveyor Co., Dematic Corp., Port of Virginia, the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC), SDI Industries, DC Velocity, and CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly.
Additional sponsorships for the pilot episode and six ongoing series episodes are available. Contact Gary Master, 719-495-5050, , or Jim Indelicato, 630-567-1328, , for details.
About AGiLE Business Media, LLC
AGiLE Business Media, LLC is the publisher of market-leading brands in the logistics and supply chain markets, including DC Velocity and CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly. Focused on delivering must-have business content to its audiences of senior executives, it provides information across the full spectrum of media platforms, ranging from traditional print to web, tablets, webcasts, events, and video.
About Steve Thomas
Emmy Award-winning host Steve Thomas consults on residential building and renovation for clients all over the United States. He celebrated his final year as host of television's most popular home improvement series, “This Old House,” during the 2002/2003 television season. Over the course of his 14 years as host, Steve became known as the “ultimate home enthusiast” and helped catapult “This Old House” to the top of PBS's list of the most-watched ongoing series of all time.
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Steve was honored with a 1997-1998 Daytime Emmy Award and nine nominations for “Outstanding Service Show Host.” An “expert in demand” on television shows such as “Oprah!,” “Today,” CNN, “Entertainment Tonight,” and “The CBS Early Show,” Steve describes “This Old House” as “one of the best adventures of my life.”
Steve hosted and co-produced the “Save Our History” series on The History Channel and “Renovation Nation” on Planet Green.
About Dave Maloney
David Maloney has been a journalist and video producer since 1980. He spent the first 20 years of his career working in television in Pittsburgh, first producing news and public affairs programs for a local broadcast station. Starting in 1988, he managed a media production house for the Catholic Church, where he produced local broadcast programming, including a public affairs radio program he hosted on KDKA in Pittsburgh and a syndicated television program for The Odyssey Channel (now known as the Hallmark Channel).
In 1999, Maloney began writing for business publications, first for Cahners Publishing and now AGiLE Business Media, where he has been senior editor of DC Velocity since 2004. Maloney has also been an independent video producer, owning AdVent Productions since 1989. He now combines his video expertise and knowledge of the supply chain industry to serve as the co-executive producer and director of Move it!
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