Apr 2011 Financial News

OCM launches new SuperStation

Apr 06, 2011

One Caribbean Media Ltd (OCM), the indigenous pan-Caribbean media company, officially launched its new Caribbean SuperStation (CSS) on Monday.

The new station is a part of the group's OCM Network, which currently operates radio stations in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, St Lucia, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis and the British Virgin Islands.

OCM Network chief executive officer Victor Fernandes said online listeners will have access across the region to a professional news and information service, as well as programming that is reflective of Caribbean culture.

"It offers an opportunity never presented before," with an audience in the territories of the Caribbean, Fernandes said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Following the launch on Monday, listeners were able to tune in to CSS in Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands and St Kitts and Nevis.

The CSS, through its radio and television presence, from one platform, will offer advertisers the opportunity to address multiple audiences through a single tool, he added.

"It is not just music, but news and cultural events and festivals. It will be the 'go-to' station for Caribbean news."

In an announcement on March 24, prior to the station's launch, Fernandes said the OCM Network must continue to work closely with regional governments to ensure the future success of the station.

"We fully expect that the governments of the Caribbean will support our initiative, even though the support has, so far, been slow in coming. We have applied to a number of governments in the Caribbean for licences, including the governments of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda, in our desire to more fully serve the needs and expectations of Caribbean people and to further the cause of regional integration and cooperation."

"We feel encouraged though by the recent calls from political leaders and social commentators across the region for some entity to step in and fill the breach that will be left by the closure of the BBC Caribbean service. In light of these events, our group feels an even more urgent sense of our responsibility to serve the region in this regard," he said.

The Caribbean SuperStation can be accessed online at yourcss.ocmnet. net.

OCM is the parent company of the Trinidad Express Newspapers, TV station CCN-TV6 and Hott 93FM in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as other Caribbean media entities.

—Curtis Rampersad


Source:
Curtis Rampersad
Trinidad Express
Wednesday April 6, 2011

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