DGAP-News: ROK Acquires Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network and Re-launches as ROK Classic Radio Network
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ROK Acquires Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network and Re-launches as ROK
Classic Radio Network
08.10.2012 / 08:00
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ROK Acquires Pumpkin FM Old Time Radio Network and Re-launches as ROK
Classic Radio Network
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
8th October 2012
ROK Global PLC, the mobile, web and industrial technology, applications and
services company, has today announced the acquisition of online classic
radio network, Pumpkin FM, which it has re-launched as ROK Classic Radio
Network and is available at www.rokradio.com
ROK Classic Radio offers a unique library of 65,000 shows from the 'Golden
Age' of radio, available as scheduled broadcasts online, around the clock,
globally, which can be listened to via computers, tablets, iPods,
smartphones and internet radios.
ROK Classic Radio has 5 distinct channels comprising British Comedy,
American Comedy, Crime and Suspense, Science Fiction and the Classic Gold
channel and includes such timeless classics as Steptoe&Son, Round The
Horne, Life With The Lyons, Dick Barton, The Shadow, The Whistler, The
Green Hornet, Dragnet, The Goon Show, Hancock's Half Hour, Dick Tracy, The
Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, Superman, Sherlock Holmes and many others.
'Pumpkin FM have a dedicated and loyal audience of more than 60,000 people
who, remarkably, tune in more than 1 million times every month and have
largely funded the service to date through voluntary donations.' Said
Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman of ROK. 'Our ambition is to keep the history of
classic radio alive for the next generation of listeners and we will do
this through dramatically increasing the reach of this unique service and
content worldwide through advertising and cross-promotions with our ROK
Mobile TV service which has an audience approaching 200,000 people.'
ROK Global PLC was co-founded by US Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and
UK-based serial technology-specialist entrepreneur, Jonathan Kendrick.
In addition to being co-founder of ROK, John Paul DeJoria is Chairman and
CEO of John Paul Mitchell Systems and is also co-founder of Patron
Tequila, the world's leading premium tequila brand.
ROK has pioneered many new and innovative products in the rapidly-evolving
mobile, web and industrial technologies space, including high quality
mass-market Mobile TV which can be streamed, live and on-demand, over
mass-market 2.5G as well as 3G and Wi-Fi, the ROK Homeland Security service
which it licenses to law-enforcement agencies, as well as multi-language
text-to-speech technologies, the worlds' fastest-growing online sustainable
brands and products ecommerce portal, JP Selects, and a portfolio of
innovative industrial technology products.
www.rokglobal.com
www.rokradio.com
www.rok.tv
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