Local makes country music program

Empire Bay resident Noel Sadler has started producing a new weekly country music program to be screened on pay TV.

"The program will be mostly produced locally using some of the great shooting locations available on the Central Coast, beaches, National Parks and other locations," said director Mr Noel Sadler of Skip Film Productions.

"Production has just started with the filming of the first stages of the music video clip that will be used for the show.

"It will take a few months to complete this clip and, after this, the TV show will begin production, where a lot of our local entertainers will be featured on the show."

The new country music program is expected be aired on the Fox national network as well as in the United States.

It will be ready to go to air mid next year when a number of episodes have been completed.

The first episode will feature the 2010 Tamworth Country Music Festival, featuring behind the scenes footage of the festival, talking with festival organisers, key personal, event promoters and selected artists.

The beginning of each episode will focus on a recording artist and their video clips and the last segment will feature an up and coming artist, someone who has the passion but has not had media exposure.

Apart from the first program that will be an hour long, the rest of the series will be half hour programs.

"With a working title Skip's Country Music Round, it will follow much the same format of my national radio program that went to air some 20 years ago," said Mr Sadler.

"From the 70s though to the mid 90s, I was heavily involved within the country music industry, with promoting live shows, radio programs including producing Tamworth's first documentary of the festival in the late 70s, for a Sydney station.

"I was also a key player in creating Australia's first licensed country music night club, The Hollywood Country Music Club."

Media release, 2 Nov 2010 Noel Sadler, Skip Film Productions