Pub Stars Grand Final - A Night to Remember
The Pub Stars National Karaoke Competition 2008 ended in a spectacular finale last week at Camelot Theme Park in Preston. After 8 months of tough competitions across the county, the fourteen Grand Finalists came together to compete for the crown of Pub Stars Champion 2008. The atmosphere was electric with the crowd raising the roof after each performance.
Although nerves were present, they did nothing but drive the adrenaline: all the finalists rose to the occasion and gave their best possible performance. After careful deliberation, the 4 judges announced their top stars of the evening in reverse order. In third place, from The Malt Shovel in Hungerford, was Alistair Ward: second place was awarded to Claire Yaxley, from The Regal in Norwich; and finally the Pub Stars Champion for 2008 was declared as Natalie Whalin, (pictured above: centre and top right), representing the Bullion Wine Bar in St Helens. Natalie wowed the judges with her rendition of Pink’s' Who Knew’.
The contestants were joined on stage by the judges: Richard Horne, Managing Director of Mediatheme Limited; Pascal Magdinier, Music Director of Easy Karaoke; Andrew Campbell of Pub Stars, and reigning champion of Pub Stars, 2007 winner Stephen Barr.
Huge congratulations to Natalie who was presented with a cheque for £3000 and a chance to record her own gold disc courtesy of Easy Karaoke. All contestants deserve our praise as the performances were of such high quality – everyone singing at this stage of the competition is already a star!
Pub Stars Regional Finals
Karaoke madness has hit the UK, covering the whole of the country in just five weekends the Pub Stars team highten their search for the 2008 Champion. With well known faces from previous years and plenty of new talent taking part, yet again Pub Stars helps licensees drive revenue through their tills.
Trade Show Success
Dispite the current unease across the pub industry, due to the economic downturn, Mediatheme achieved a very positive response during this months trade show. Leads were as high if not higher than 2007 and interest was strong, with a number of new venue owners looking at ways to guarantee success. Attracting customers to their venue and keeping them spending for longer.
March 2008
See For Yourself the Power of the Entertainer™
Spring means show time! From 27 February through to the 21 May, Mediatheme™ will be exhibiting at the many trade show around the country. So now is the best time to come and see for yourself how the Entertainer™ can increase your trade and make your profits rise.
SLTN Show, Edinburgh – 27th to 28th February, stand number A30
The Publican Live, London Olympia – 1st to 3rd April, find us on stand number 335
Northern Restaurant & Bar, Manchester GMEX – 7TH TO 8TH April, stand 442
Pub Business, Birmingham NEC – 20TH – 21ST May, showcasing the Entertainer™ at stand 551.
January 2008
We're back... bigger and better!
That's right, Pub Stars™ the UK's biggest and best independent karaoke competition is back with a bang! Bigger, better and stronger than ever before with fantastic prizes and great incentives to enter your pub.
Now in it's fourth year Pub Stars™ is back with fantastic prize money up for grabs for both the winning singer and the winning pub.
Pub Stars™ National Karaoke Competition 2008 is brought to you by Mediatheme™ the UK's leader in touch screen entertainment. The aim of the competition is to find a star, that person who gets up and entertains the drinkers in your venue week after week. If you think you have a hidden talent in your venue - Pub Stars™ is for you.
Pub Stars™ is designed to maximise your profits over the winter months. The first stage of the competition is managed by you. Run heats each week during January-May with your own in-house final. The more nights you run the more publicity you gain resulting in more customers through the door.
Your star then goes on to represent your venue at the regional heats in June-July, with the Grand Final being held in September.
December 2007
Mediatheme™ have maintained their position of market leaders in entertainment for the pub and club market during 2007. A difficult year for the industry with the Smoking Ban coming into force, with many businesses hoping for a successful festive season to get profits bouncing back. In 2008 entertainment will move higher up the ladder of importance as venues work hard to encourage custom to their venue. With the price of beer rising to an all time high, organised evenings, theme nights with food and drink promotions will all be key to success next year, keeping people spending through the next twelve months.
November 2007
New Features Released
Scrolling Text - We’ve also created a “Scrolling Text” feature, another excellent way for you to keep in touch with your customers. Display special Congratulations, Anniversary or Birthday messages, and keep customers advised about forthcoming events. Choose “Scrolling Text”, and then just “Add” whatever message you want.
Custom Images - Ever wanted to use your own pictures on your Entertainer™? Plug your camera or memory card into the USB Port and follow the instructions! The Entertainer now helps you choose the pics you want to use and makes them available for you to use in your adverts.
October 2007
Comedy Nights become the new must have for Pubs
across the Country
October saw the launch of the first VIP Lounge package from Mediatheme™.
By teaming up with The Comedy Club the UK’s leading provider of comedy, Mediatheme™ yet again stay ahead of the competition by providing exclusive comedy nights to pubs across the land, further expanding their claim that the Entertainer Pro™ is ‘The Complete Entertainment Solution’.
Combining every aspect of community entertainment the system empowers the venue to run their own entertainment schedule in house.
With an endless array of entertainment on tap including – Karaoke, Theme Nights, Disco, Roulette, Bingo, Raffles, Horse Racing, Quiz, Night at the Dogs, Bar Games like Hi-Lo Cards, Open the Box and Skint or Mint. There is no end to the possibilities, saving money and earning additional revenue for all participating pubs.
For more information visit www.mediatheme.com or call our Customer Services team on 01780 480100, between 9am and 5.30pm.
Have a laugh down your Local!
Experts in Entertainment - Mediatheme™ have introduced Comedy Nights to their ever-growing repertoire of features on the Entertainer Pro™.
Pub and clubs can now add Comedy to their entertainment schedules, with Comedy Nights, provided by some of the Top Comedians in the UK today.
“The Comedy Club has traditionally been out of reach for smaller more intimate venues which may not have the budget or indeed the facilities to hold a live comedy evening. We are proud to say our new partnership with Mediatheme dramatically changes this. Together we have been able to provide a flexible, innovative entertainment package presenting the UK’s top comedians at a fraction of the cost of a live comedy night for everyone to enjoy.”
Ian Franklin - Managing Director The Comedy Club Ltd
Comedy fills pubs across the Country
Mediatheme’s ™ new Comedy feature in association with the Comedy Club Ltd, is seeing pubs all over the country reap the benefits of Comedy Nights. Historically Comedy Clubs have been out of the average licensees reach.
Quiet midweek evenings are now a thing of the past, with pubs all over the country looking for new ways to attract customers to their venues. Mediatheme™ are proud to announce the launch their exclusive Comedy Club option. Entertainer Pro™ customers are already seeing the impact of the new feature.
We saw a 20% upturn in revenue, on the night we ran the Comedy Club and the response from our customers was phenomenal everyone is asking when the next Comedy Night is.
Pam Johnson – Bar Four, Reading
The changing face of entertainment, as important as the beer you sell and the menu you offer when it comes to attracting custom to your venue. Make your place stand out from the crowd, bring Comedy Nights to your town today.
June 2007
Skint or Mint
The game of chance, mystery and tension, as players take part in a battle of nerves, courage and risk against the mysterious banker.
The game works using a maximum of 22 boxes each containing various amounts of cash. No-one knows what amount is in each box.
The player chooses their own box at the beginning of the game, which they will keep until the end. He/she then begins opening the remaining boxes on the board aiming to eliminate the lower amounts. During the game, the banker will offer the player cash amounts to buy them out. The decision to gamble and continue to the next round is in the hands of the player.
As the player goes through the rounds each choice is pivotal as the more, higher amounts that remain the higher the amount the banker will be, forced to offer. The tension rises as the boxes disappear one by one, no-one knows if the right deal has been taken until the end of the game.
The player can take the banker’s offer when it is made or choose to risk going all the way to the end of the game and take what’s in their box whether it is £5 or £500! Do they have what it takes to beat the banker?February 2007
Park Holidays UK formally Cinque Port Leisure
Mediatheme™ secures order across premier family holiday park company. With costal resorts across Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, Essex and Suffolk, Park Holidays were looking for an entertainment solution, which was easy to run in house, gave a large variety of entertainment available to their sites. With Mediatheme’s™ reputation for reliability, quality and customer service, the Entertainer Pro™ is the obvious choice.
January 2007
Mediatheme™ Listen to their Customers
In touch with our customers, the key to providing a successful product is listening to our customers. On a quarterly basis Entertainer™, owners are given the opportunity to input into THEIR product. ‘Future games and enhancements are all prioritised around our customers need’ says Richard Horne, MD. No-one knows their customers better than the Licensee, how they interact and what entertainment would work in the communal venue environment.
November 2006
Sell More Save More
Mediatheme™ has been asked by the team at The Publican Newspaper to head up the Entertainment category for their category management project Sell More Save More. Mediatheme’s primary objectives being, to highlight the importance of entertainment as part of a Publican’s revenue generation, not as a service. By developing a programme over the course of the project showing successes and pitfalls correlated to effort and planning.
