(Austin, TX) — All Access Live, the weekly 30-minute concert series from Austin, Texas — the Live Music Capital of the World — is breaking national ground! Beginning this fall, the Austin music program will debut in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, CA (WB), Charlotte, NC (Fox), Las Vegas, NV (ABC), Los Angeles, CA (KHIZ), Pittsburgh, PA (WGBN), Phoenix, AZ (WB), and Washington DC (WJAL), reaching an audience of over 19 million households, throughout fourteen cities and seven states, with promise of more markets by fall 2004. The new affiliates will broadcast a 52-week run of 26 original episodes.

In addition to presenting excellent, live concert footage, All Access Live provides a rare and exciting behind-the-scenes view of some of today’s best artists. The series features a variety of national acts, with exclusive interviews in each episode, including rarely observed backstage high jinks! Experience the excitement from your front row seat with the charismatic and energetic B-Doe Bymark as your host and personal guide through each incredible musical event.

Enjoy the full V.I.P. treatment at each concert venue, from your special escort to the front of the line, to your all-access backstage pass! Hang out and chat with your favorite bands on their personal tour bus, and catch all the behind-the-scenes action with rock stars such as David Gray, 3 Doors Down, Maroon 5, Ben Kweller, Blues Traveler, Los Lonely Boys, and more!

All Access Live could be in your town soon! To find out if All Access Live is available in your viewing area, or to sign up for the AAL newsletter for up to date happenings, please refer to www.allaccesslive.com.

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I'm proud to say I told you so! I've been chronicling the path of All Access Live, the locally produced half hour video/back stage interview television show that began airing last October on the Austin's WB. Beginning with the Fall 2004 season, All Access Live will be airing on various major networks throughout the country, reaching over 15% of all market households – that's over 17 Million homes! The weekly music series filmed, produced, and marketed by Austin based Art Attack Productions, features popular and up and coming nationally known touring artists filmed live at outdoor venues such as Stubb's and the Back Yard. All Access Live is available (or soon will be) in Austin, Corpus Christi, Abilene, San Angelo and Amarillo, TX; San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego and Los Angeles, CA; Charlotte, NC; Boston, MA; Las Vegas, NV; Washington, DC; and, Pittsburgh, PA, with more to come. Dare we to hope that our own loveable B-Doe Bymark, (ex-AMN VJ and current KLBJ DJ), and host of All Access Live, will soon be the next Ryan Seacrest?

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A new music concert series tagged All Access Live kicked off in October on Austin's WB Network. All Access is the brainchild of Austin independent producers Gigi Greco of Art Attack Productions and her husband and partner Dave Drapen, vocalist/guitarist of rock band Jagger. As each episode has unfolded with shows featuring Riddlin' Kids, Seether, Gavin DeGraw, Pete Francis and 3 Doors Down, the show has visibly become smoother and tighter as the film crew and VJay "B-Doe" settle into a comfortable rhythm with each passing show. Airing twice nightly on Saturdays at 10:00 PM and again at 12:30 AM on Austin's WB, this Austin based cutting-edge music series is national in its look and feel. The choice of artists and the quality of filming and editing exhibited throughout the show gives All Access Live audience appeal that would work just as well in Baltimore as it does in Creedmore, TX. Brian “B-Doe” Bymark, a popular VJ/Host from the Austin Music Network and DJ on Austin’s rock station KLBJ 93.7 FM is a natural host; no emerging egos here. The show features excellent live concert footage mixed with candid backstage interviews that at times can be a tad rough around the edges as soundchecks blare in the background and the ugliness of the 'ready' room is revealed by day, but that's also what's so cool about it. As B-Doe is fond of saying, "you’re his +1 for the evening" as you get a real WB frog's eye view of backstage. David Gray, 311, G-Love and Blues Traveler are still to come and I hear there's more shows under production. I don't see why All Access Live can't be the next Austin rags to riches story.

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Although the Austin Music Network's future is in its usual state of uncertainty (see "Mr. Kite's Corner"), local music now has another outlet on the tube thanks to KNVA's new All Access Live. The station, better known as Austin's WB (broadcast 54/TW cable Channel 12), has been running IDs and bumpers featuring bands like Vallejo and Cruiserweight for several years, so All Access turned out to be a perfect fit. "We see pilots all the time, and this was by far the best privately-funded pilot we've seen," says KNVA Director of Promotion Jim Canning. Created by local publicist Gigi Greco and hosted by AMN/KLBJ personality Brian "B-Doe" Bymark, the half-hour show combines live performances and behind-the-scenes footage from both local and national acts. The premiere followed the Riddlin' Kids around La Zona Rosa; future episodes will feature David Gray, Maroon 5, 3 Doors Down, and Gavin DeGraw. All Access, which airs Saturdays at 10pm, also provides the station with a novel way to fulfill its public-service requirement stipulated by the FCC. Besides, notes Assistant Promotions Director Tish Saliani, "a lot of our programming is geared to the same audience these bands are trying to reach."

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