Reach Entertainment
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Reach Entertainment is the largest supplier of budget sport
s home video
programs in the USA. In the 1990s, Reach produced over 250 sports blooper
s and sports highlight home video programs for labels such as Simitar, Goodtimes
, Madacy, Front Row (label), and Diamond.
Reach owns the Mizlou Television Network
library, the TVS Television Network
library, the TCS/Metrosports Library, and the Video Techniques boxing
library among its 2,500 sports library. On television
, Reach was the sports department for Nostalgia Television network prior to becoming a major program supplier for Classic Sports Network. Currently, Reach supplies classic sports events for Fox.com, Tavern Television, and the revived TVS Television Network.
Reach also owns more than a dozen record
labels including RKO/Unique Records
, Boardwalk Records
, Unique Jazz, Cool Jazz
, and several others.
Reach also sponsors the AAU Elite basketball
team, the Akron Wingfoots
of the NABL.
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...
s home video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
programs in the USA. In the 1990s, Reach produced over 250 sports blooper
Blooper
A blooper, also known as an outtake or boner is a short sequence of a film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. It also refers to an error made during a live radio or TV broadcast or news report, usually in terms of misspoken words...
s and sports highlight home video programs for labels such as Simitar, Goodtimes
Goodtimes
Goodtimes is the November 2002 recording from Australian three-piece band The Beautiful Girls.This CD is currently unavailable.-Track listing:#Goodtimes#Water#All I Need #Everything Does#At The First Sign Of Trouble...
, Madacy, Front Row (label), and Diamond.
Reach owns the Mizlou Television Network
Mizlou Television Network
The Mizlou Television Network was an early syndicator of sports television in the United States. It was founded in 1961 by brothers Claude and Vic Piano. Its first telecast was of the 1968 Peach Bowl football game....
library, the TVS Television Network
TVS Television Network
The TVS Television Network, or TVS for short, was a syndicator of American sports programming. It was one of several "occasional" national television networks that sprang up in the early 1960s to take advantage of the establishment of independent television stations and relaxation of the AT&T...
library, the TCS/Metrosports Library, and the Video Techniques boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
library among its 2,500 sports library. On television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, Reach was the sports department for Nostalgia Television network prior to becoming a major program supplier for Classic Sports Network. Currently, Reach supplies classic sports events for Fox.com, Tavern Television, and the revived TVS Television Network.
Reach also owns more than a dozen record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
labels including RKO/Unique Records
RKO/Unique Records
RKO Records and Unique Jazz are two record labels. They began in 1955 as Unique Records, a New York pop music record label. After several small pop hits, such as "Man in the Raincoat" by fourteen-year-old Priscilla Wright, the label was acquired by RKO General in 1957, who had recently acquired the...
, Boardwalk Records
Boardwalk Records
Boardwalk Records was a record label founded by Neil Bogart in 1980, after PolyGram acquired his Casablanca Records. The label had a huge hit act with Joan Jett before Neil Bogart died of cancer in 1982...
, Unique Jazz, Cool Jazz
Cool jazz
Cool is a style of modern jazz music that arose following the Second World War. It is characterized by its relaxed tempos and lighter tone, in contrast to the bebop style that preceded it...
, and several others.
Reach also sponsors the AAU Elite basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
team, the Akron Wingfoots
Akron Wingfoots
The Akron Wingfoots are one of the oldest basketball teams in the United States. They were founded in 1918 by the workers at the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio...
of the NABL.