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Why TVA Productions?

  • Because TVA is one of the top independent media production / placement companies in the country. Our clients are worldwide. We have our own production facilities, coast-to-coast staff, worldwide distribution & tracking resources.
  • Because of the successes TVA has had as a pioneer in the production & media placement industry, our team has won every major award in the industry. We've also been the subject of numerous major media interviews, both on television (NBC, PBS, The Learning Channel, TNN, Nippon TV) and in the press (Newsweek, LA Times, Ad Age, Adweek, Direct, Target Marketing , Hollywood Reporter. Film & Video, Response TV , Electronic Media and more).
  • Because TVA offers the most cost-efficient way to get your story out to 1,100 TV stations, 40 major airlines (in-flight programming), 6,600 radio stations, 10,250 newspapers, 400 trade magazines & journals, and thousands of news portals --- in a format broadcasters and editors can easily use immediately.
  • Because TVA has a 21 year history of producing and placing news features for more than 2,400 clients including most Fortune 500 companies, top-10 PR firms, national associations & non-profits, start-ups, micro & mid-cap companies; professionals, and government agencies.
  • Because our media production / distribution / placement packages:
  • require no long term contract or retainer
  • come with more guaranteed minimum placements and seven other Guarantees.
  • Because our several veteran producers, directors and editors (including former CNN and top daily newspaper and wire service editors) know what pulls best in this market. They'll edit your releases or write a new series based on your materials and today's hot trends. Editors and programming directors rely on our quality ready-made news features to meet their own growing need for editorial content due to news staff cutbacks.
  • Because our Emmy & Golden Mike winning news team will develop the plan to your approval, implement it, and measure the results. You will receive advance media schedules, detailed broadcast affidavits and Arbitron reports (showing station, city, date and time, cumulative audience, and circulation) and actual clippings from newspapers and magazines. Clip entry and placement numbers are shown in real-time via 24/7 online tracking.
  • Because TVA guarantees to get your press releases, story ideas, VNRs, and/or videos the greatest number of editorial media placements on TV, airlines, radio and print for the lowest cost.
  • Because TVA fills a specialized niche in the marketing industry, blending elements of public relations, advertising and promotion with the accepted forms of traditional journalism. Our media methods are more cost effective than TV spots, infomercials, print and radio ads, direct mail, etc.
  • Because we have a reputation for producing highly successful image, instructional and motivational shows for some of the largest and most demanding corporations and institutions worldwide.
  • Because our clients range from global, multi-billion dollar corporations to local charities. By bringing show business to business we've helped these organizations communicate more effectively, both internally and to the outside world. With electronic media that combines sight, sound, motion and emotion---we turn their vision into visuals and image into income.
  • Because we offer a huge digital production facility with a giant sound stage with blue, orange and green screens, motion control rigging, an insert stage, on-site digital compositing, digital editing bays, and a state-of-the-art duplication facility (off-site) that can create over 1,000,000 DVDs, VHS and CDs in a single shift. The motion control / special F/X shots for Intel, Star Trek, Voyager and Deep Space Nine series are created here. Many of the scenes for the Disney movie "Up Close and Personal" with Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer were shot here.
  • Because TVA owns an extensive library of high-end live-action footage shot all over the world as well as exciting computer graphics and special F/X which could increase the production values and impact of the video several times over.
  • Because we've shot award-winning programs in almost every part of the world. In the last few years alone, we've shot programs in the Caribbean, Bahamas, Mexican Riviera, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Egypt, Honduras, Mexico City, and Canada. Our team has lived and/or worked in over twenty countries worldwide and is experienced in cross-cultural communications (See bios).
  • Because TVA is debt-free and has operated well in the black since its formation in 1987. TVA maintains a credit rating of "Excellent" by Dun & Bradstreet. (#61-908-3066).