Honorable Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism talks with Michele English, COO during Flow after a Flow/HBO On Demand Launch during a 2011 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival .

Kingston, Jamaica;
Jamaica and a Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival will once again receive
another boost as Flow leverages a broadband record and
partnership with general calm provider HBO to assistance create
multiple avenues for exposure.  With a partnership with HBO, viewers
across a Caribbean and Latin America will be treated to another
Special underline showcasing Jamaica and a 2012 Jamaica Jazz and Blues
Festival, a repeat of a rarely successful beginning that was such a
key component of a prior year’s festival.  Flow’s record will
also promote live streaming to several countries opposite a globe,
OnDemand programmes on a Flow OnDemand platform, and a internal feature
on Flow TV.

Michele English, President
and Chief Operating Officer for Flow, vocalization during a launch for the
2012 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, announced a repeat of the
partnership with HBO and highlighted a stress of a Festival as
being a initial vital eventuality of a year in that Jamaica celebrates the
50th anniversary of independence. “This was an intensely important
motivator for us during Flow as we acquire a eventuality to support and
celebrate such a poignant miracle in Jamaica’s history.” English
also announced that in further to a HBO Special, FLOW TV would
produce a underline to showcase a festival and also work with the
Festival group to rise programmes for Flow’s OnDemand platform,
enabling viewers to see what they wish to see, when they wish to see it.
“We are gay that a festival is fixation such a clever concentration on
highlighting a best of Jamaican song and talent over a years. As
part of a joining to support internal culture, we continue to find out
avenues to assistance rise and showcase a abounding talent, both on and off
the stage, in Jamaica.”

“HBO is gay to be back
on house to support a Jamaica Jazz Festival during this really significant
time in a island’s story during a 50th anniversary celebrations.
 We continue to uncover a joining by investing and partnering with
Flow and a Ministry of Tourism to furnish an HBO Special that will be
featured via a Caribbean and a rest of Latin America.” said
Miguel Angel Oliva, Vice boss of Public Relations and Corporate
Affairs for HBO Latin America.  ”Our viewers will suffer this relevant
program showcasing a abounding enlightenment and beauty of Jamaica.”

The Honourable Edmund
Bartlett, Minister of Tourism reiterated a significance of a Flow/HBO
partnership to Jamaica’s tourism. “HBO’s display on a final Jazz
Festival was an comprehensive success. HBO brought genuine images and a power
of a product to a universe that severely benefitted Jamaica,” he said.
“I trust that it is HBO that has assisted us in removing a vital acts
that are headlining a Festival this year. When vital acts see that
large networks are interested, it invites them to participate.” Minister
Barlett reliable that a HBO/FLOW beginning would have a positive
impact on efforts to boost tourism arrivals from new markets in the
region when he pronounced “Latin and South America are a subsequent limit for
visitors to Jamaica and we are severely vehement that a HBO underline will
assistance us in conveying some of Jamaica’s pivotal values that will support us
in a vital efforts.”

The festival this year will
also concentration on record for larger avenues for exposure.  English
revealed that Flow will precedence a state-of-the art broadband network
to yield 100 MBps high speed internet use for a event, enabling
live streams and updates from a event. “With this kind of power, the
team will be means to tide live all a movement to anywhere in a world
during a best quality. Local and general media, business partners
and congregation will be means to record reports, blog, twitter and post
commentary and photos of all that is function as partial of their
Jazz and Blues Festival knowledge pity now in genuine time with
those who are not means to be there to suffer it in person,” she said.

The 2012 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival will open on Jan 26th with
first night dedicated to highlighting a best of Jamaican music and
talent over a years. Headliner for a festival will be
multi-platinum, 5-time Grammy endowment winning songstress, Celine Dion.

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