Platinum Television Group Announces Affiliation with Soap Opera Digest

The magazine will feature PTG in 20 full-page four-color ads for its half-hour show Great Taste, which highlights aspects of the good life around the world. The ads will spotlight companies that have been chosen for special segments of these shows. In turn, Platinum Television will produce one :30 spot for Soap Opera Digest magazine.

Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWEB) December 24, 2004 -- Platinum Television Group, an industry leader in producing consumer lifestyle educational programming, is pleased to announce its immediate promotional affiliation with Soap Opera Digest, a weekly magazine featuring news and feature stories about the long-running dramas on daytime television.

The magazine will feature PTG in 20 full-page four-color ads for its half-hour show Great Taste, which highlights aspects of the good life around the world. The ads will spotlight companies that have been chosen for special segments of these shows.

In turn, Platinum Television will produce one :30 spot for Soap Opera Digest magazine, which will air 500 times on family-oriented networks such as The Style Network, E! Entertainment, Discovery Channel, regional news networks, PAX TV, Oxygen, the Travel Channel and others.

Published continuously since 1975, Soap Opera Digest is the number one source of celebrity news and program information for 42.5 hours of original weekly television programming. Read by more than one million fans each week, the magazine produces the annual Soap Opera Digest Awards, as well as sponsors local mall and shopping center tours and fashion events throughout the country. Its editors regularly contribute their expertise to newspapers, television shows, radio broadcasts and other general interest magazines.

In fact, editors of Soap Opera Digest will become part of the Advisory Board of Platinum Television Group and introduce some segments of the show and offer their expertise.

Primedia, parent company of Soap Opera Digest, is the leading targeted media company in the United States. With 2003 revenues from continuing businesses of $1.3 billion, its properties deliver content via print, the Internet, live events and video and offer highly effective advertising and marketing solutions in some of the most sought-after niche markets. Primedia Enthusiast Media includes more than 120 consumer magazines, their Web sites and About.com, and is the #1 special interest magazine publisher in the U.S. with well-known brands such as Motor Trend, Automobile, Creating Keepsakes, In-Fisherman, Power & Motoryacht, Hot Rod, Snowboarder, Stereophile and Surfer. Primedia Consumer Guides is the #1 publisher and distributor of free consumer guides, such as Apartment Guide, Auto Guide® and New Homes Guide.

For more information, please visit http://www.soapoperadigest.com/ and platinumtelevision.com.

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