Janson Pact with K2 Includes HDTV Concerts, Giant Screen Films

Janson Media today announced a series of agreements with K2 Communications for the international distribution of a dozen titles from the company's catalog. Janson is introducing the programming this week at MIPTV 2006, in Cannes. The new HDTV concert specials range from rock and roll to country-western and from techno to hip-hop, and include &'3 Doors Down: Away from the Sun,&' &'Kenny Rogers: The Journey,&' &'The Ultra Music Festival Experience,&' &'Neal McCoy: Live from Hodag,&' and &'Hip Hop Life.&' The Giant Screen Films collection is now available for television for the first time, and includes films which have premiered successfully in IMAX theaters around the world, such as &'Mexico,&' &'Vikings: Journey to New Worlds,&' &'Gold Fever,&' &'Legend of Loch Lomond,&' Volcanoes of the Deep Sea,&' &'Straight Up: Helicopters in Action,&' and &'Ocean Men: Extreme Dive,&' among others. Various rights packages are available depending on the title. &'We"ve been working on this agreement with K2 since last summer,&' said Stephen Janson of Janson Media. &'We found them when a broadcast client asked us to source some IMAX-style films, and we learned that K2 had aggregated the largest collection of such content for post-theatrical distribution.' K2 Communications is a leading edge production and distribution organization specializing in emerging non-traditional media programming, including Giant Screen Films for both large format and digital theaters, VOD, interactive media, branded content and high-definition television and DVD. Janson Media is an independent media distribution company based in New Jersey. Founded in 1989,the company"s catalog includes over 1,200 hours of content available for licensing to worldwide television, DVD-video, VOD and broadband companies. Janson's rights portfolio includes documentaries, music and performance, lifestyle, nature & wildlife, adventure, sport, travel, how-to, history, current affairs, reality tv, children's programming, and dramas and features.