San Francisco, CA – December 12, 2008 – Furthering its position as the ultimate online source for entertainment news, Revision3’s hit program the Totally Rad Show has won two prestigious tech industry awards. Hosted by Dan Trachtenberg, Alex Albrecht and Jeff Cannata, the Totally Rad Show is an explosion of movie, video game, TV and comics news and reviews. And the awards are…
- The 2008 Podcast Award, Best Produced: Online media fans submitted nominations for their favorite shows in the 2008 Podcast Awards, which recognize the best video and audio podcasts, and then voted to honor TRS for its top-notch production skills. For more information, check out http://www.podcastawards.com/.
- Nintendo’s Supermarket Spree and Cook-Off Competition: Nintendo of America invited The Totally Rad Show hosts on a high-octane trip to the supermarket to compete in Personal Trainer: Cooking Supermarket Spree—and they won! The two-part contest, held at Whole Foods Market in Pasadena, Calif. saw contestants scouring grocery shelves in pursuit of ingredients to prepare one of the 245+ recipes found in Personal Trainer: Cooking, a new interactive cooking coach available on Nintendo DS. The TRS hosts crossed the finish line first. Check it out here! At the conclusion of the spree, the contestants with the fastest times traded-in their shopping carts for chef hats and met face-to-face in a heated cook-off. After preparing a selected recipe from Personal Trainer: Cooking, Totally Rad Show hosts took home the silver in the cook-off. The Totally Rad Show features the Supermarket Sweep/Cook-off challenge in Episode 89.
Hosted by Alex Albrecht, Jeff Cannata and Dan Trachtenberg, the Totally Rad Show is Revision3’s explosion of movie, video game, TV and comics news and reviews. Four dudes in a garage. One green screen. A cubic ass-ton of enthusiasm. The Totally Rad Show is all about the feeling of sharing a great new movie, video game, TV show or comic. If it’s out there and it is rad, it is on the Totally Rad Show.
About Revision3
Revision3 is the first media company that gets it. Born from the Internet, Revision3 is the home of Internet Television, creating and producing shows for a new audience: passionate, committed fans who want to watch shows about technology, modern culture and music that entertain, educate and help to expand their life experiences.
The company was founded in 2005 by technology visionaries Kevin Rose, Jay Adelson and David Prager because they couldn’t find anything they wanted to watch on traditional television. The company is now led by Internet TV pioneer Jim Louderback. With more than 60 million views to date (and six million per month), Revision3’s programs can be found everywhere from Revision3 to a wide range of platforms, including iTunes, YouTube, Joost, Hulu, Viddler, Blip.TV and TIVO. Shows can be watched on any device, from a cell phone to an Apple iPod to a computer or a TV.
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