From 'A Star Is Born' to 'Popeye' - DRAMA.TV and TOON.TV Launch on the Web Without Commercials, Downloads, Subscriptions, or Waiting

From 'A Star Is Born' to 'Popeye' - DRAMA.TV and TOON.TV Launch on the Web Without Commercials, Downloads, Subscriptions, or Waiting

NEW YORK, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate media giants are not the only contenders putting vintage and original programs on the quickly evolving content-driven Internet. Jacques Rosas and Eric Steding, New York City-based design, production and programming entrepreneurs, are launching classic films, TV series and cartoons at new entertainment websites/channels DRAMA.TV and TOON.TV under the banner of SHOPSTUDIOS.TV. The sites -- stop, pause and resume streaming content with no time or memory-consuming downloads -- are completely free without commercials, subscriptions or sign-up.

"We are in the midst of a content boom that is opening up an entire new world of free access to film and TV content on the Internet," said Jacques Rosas, CEO of Shop Studios Network. "This is an intensely creative time where the capacity to put together media content from huge film and TV libraries is now a reality for small entrepreneurial companies. We think of ourselves as a web lab that is upending the old definition of a network, while also allowing us to experiment with new types of original programming."

Current SHOPSTUDIOS.TV channels include DRAMA.TV, which features classic films such as "A Star Is Born" (starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March) and "The Perils of Pauline" (starring Betty Hutton) and the classic TV series "Bonanza," and TOON.TV, which has the popular animated "Popeye" series and classic Mel-O-Toon cartoons.

Rosas, with partner Eric Steding, will be adding new movies and TV shows on a weekly basis. News reports with Rosas as on-air host and producer are in the works for two of SHOPSTUDIOS.TV's other channels, WEBISODE.TV and ALLGOODNEWS.TV, already up and running.

Also in development is FOODREVIEW.TV which will feature restaurant reviews, recipes and food product announcements. Rosas and Steding are planning shopping destinations on the SHOPSTUDIOS.TV network that will sell gifts, furniture, fashion, food, linens and kitchen and bath accessories. The concept is a virtual mall experience -- after watching classic films users can browse through a shopping section much like they would after attending a movie house in their local mall. They plan to keep the network free of advertising.

Jacques Rosas and Eric Steding are partners in Shop Studios Network, their film, video, design and production company founded in 1997 with studios in midtown Manhattan. They are world famous for their expertise in new product launches with an array of Fortune 500 companies relying on them to put their products in the best light for coverage by national magazines, newspapers and television shows, with clients including Proctor and Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Starbucks, Sony, General Electric, Viacom, Colgate Palmolive, Coach and Home Depot, among others. The company is also known globally for the design of major exhibitions for the United Nations, UNICEF and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Available Topic Expert(s): For information on the listed expert(s), click appropriate link. Jacques Rosas http://profnet.prnewswire.com/ud_public.jsp?userid=10025204 Eric Steding http://profnet.prnewswire.com/ud_public.jsp?userid=10025205

Source: Shop Studios Network

CONTACT: Tim Fisher, +1-845-526-0182, tf@fishercompany.net, or Kathryn
Perry, +1-917-881-1345, ktperry@optonline.net, both for Shop Studios Network

Web site: http://www.shopstudios.tv/

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