Dear Administrator/ Ugandanet Thank you for circulating information about our TV series, "The Hostel," to your members. Would it be permissible for you to kindly send me the entire email list? My objective would be to send messages to members once our online distribution platform is launched, strictly on a Blind Copy (B.C.C.) basis, i.e. each recipient would only see their own name. Most grateful if this request could be positively considered.
Best regards Conrad Nkutu Managing Director, Fast Track Productions, Kampala Executive Producer, "The Hostel" ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 7 April, 2011 12:00:02 Subject: Ugandanet Digest, Vol 256, Issue 1 Send Ugandanet mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ugandanet digest..." Ugnet-Digest Today's Topics: 1. Hilarious Ugandan TV series available online to Ugandanet Members (Conrad Nkutu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:44:44 +0100 (BST) From: Conrad Nkutu <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "martin kintu \(yahoo\)" <[email protected]>, richard geria <[email protected]> Subject: [Ugnet] Hilarious Ugandan TV series available online to Ugandanet Members Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Would you be Interested in a Quality, Made-in-Uganda TV Drama-Comedy Series (Online Video)? Hi People,? I just recently joined?Ugandanet and would like to thank the group's founders and members for keeping your link to the mother country alive through this and other fora bringing together Ugandans in the diaspora. ? Those of you with whom I've interacted before might be aware that I moved on?from my previous posting as Managing Director of the Daily/Sunday Monitor newspaper and 93.3 KFM Radio in Kampala in 2007. I spent a couple of years at the Nairobi head office of Kenya's Nation Media Group, initially as Group Business Development/ Strategy?Director and later as Managing Director of the Nation Broadcasting Division (NTV Kenya, NTV Uganda, Easy FM and QFM). I've since relocated to Kampala and have, in the last year,?set up Uganda's first professional tv and film production company, Fast Track Productions Ltd. ? During February 2011, we launched Uganda's first and so far only quality, daily tv drama-comedy entertainment series, "The Hostel," which airs on NTV in Uganda at 7.30pm, Wednesday to Saturday. "The Hostel" has quickly emerged as the country's most popular tv entertainment programme and has been very positively reviewed by the New Vision, Monitor, Observer (and even the Red Pepper!) newspapers, in addition to generating a huge volume of Facebook buzz every week, with animated debate about the story and the actors and actresses. The huge and positive volume of discussion about the series on Facebook has motivated very many Ugandans abroad to check out the 3 episodes we've uploaded to YouTube, resulting in strong and consistent demands to us to make the entire series available to Ugandans abroad. ? Fast Track Productions plans to launch a commercial video-on-demand online distribution platform on our website, www.fastrack.co.ug, in the next couple of weeks (mid-April) and the purpose of this email is to get a sense of who and how many of our countrymen and women in the diaspora are likely to be interested in making an online purchase. ? Kindly visit www.fastrack.co.ug if you're interested in the company's profile ("About Us") and go into the "Hostel" link. Once there, you'll be able to see what "The Hostel" is about and the direction of its story. You'll also find a link for "Reviews," containing press articles about the programme, from the various newspapers. There's also an "Interactive" link that takes you to viewer comments, posted online. At the bottom of the home page is a link to our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/thehostelseries, where you'll be able to see the huge cult following and daily discussion that the series has attracted in Uganda. More imprtantly, at the bottom of our web pages is another link to our YouTube site where you can see the first 3 episodes free of charge. ? If you are interested enough to want to see the rest of the 90-episode First Season, kindly drop me an email at [email protected]. We plan to charge US$9.99 for one month's access (15 episodes, just under half an hour each), with the option to pay $24.99 for three months' access (45 episodes) or $44.99 for six months' access (the full 90-episode Season 1). Once the online distribution platform is launched in mid-April, you'll be informed via UNAANET, Facebook, Twitter, ads and press stories in the online versions of Uganda's national newspapers and announcements in the various Ugandan blogs out there. We'll be using Paypal as the payment system, so you'll be able to use your various credit cards via that well-tested route. Viewing will be via quality streaming (not dowloads) and we will be hosted in the U.S. to ensure quality, high-resolution streaming and first-class customer service experience. We'll be leasing server space from a leading U.S. service provider, to ensure adequate storage and back-up space. ? Fast Track Productions and "The Hostel" symbolise three pioneering initiatives in Uganda's media history: first daily TV entertainment show ever; first quality, made-in-Uganda drama-comedy production; and first online/ e-commerce initiative in the area of tv-video content. There are hardly any functional e-commerce / digital media?businesses operating out of Uganda with an online payment platform.?We will be proud to offer a highly entertaining, high frequency tv?series with a fiercely Ugandan cultural?feel to it, to tens of thousands of Ugandans out there and we plan to bring more programmes online if the subscriber response is strong. Any Ugandan or person of Ugandan-origin out there who misses home and wants to get a feel of life in Kampala, contemporary youth culture and something good, made in the Motherland, is just going to love "The Hostel." ? This email is an informal effort at establishing potential market size and interest. We'd be grateful to hear from you, find out if you're a likely customer and also to get a feel of whether most subscribers would rather pay monthly in instalments or make one full payment for the entire Season. We'd be even more grateful if you could send this email to all your Ugandan and Ugandan-American friends and relatives out there, many of whom might not be Ugandanet members. Potential subscribers are kindly requested to include your full name, email address and if okay with you, phone number and physical address. Name and email address are essential. ? Best regards, and Proudly Ugandan! Fast Track Productions Ltd ? Conrad K. Nkutu Managing Director/ Chief Executive Executive Producer, "The Hostel" ------------------------------------------ Fast Track Productions Ltd 1062 Mutungo Hill P.O. 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