TV to talk about... music to jam about.

This past week in my public relations campaigns class, team 31061 The Ville hosted an event to promote some of CW's newest shows, 90210 and Melrose Place.

Both of these shows are remakes of the classic 90's television shows. They are set in a modern world, but still have the dramatic plot lines that their predecessors were known to have. There are even some of the original cast members on the new CW shows.

Our event was held in order to raise awareness for these CW shows. This fall, 90210 started their second season and Melrose Place premiered; therefore, both shows could greatly benefit from this extra promotion on our college campus. For our event, we decided to bring music and television together. Everyone loves music and it's a great platform for promoting another form of entertainment, television.

Our event, TV to talk about, music to jam about took place on Oct. 8, 2009 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. We hosted this CW sponsored event on front campus. We figured this would be the best place to reach the greatest number of people for an event meant to promote CW's shows. We would be able to grab all the people going to and from class and all of the people just wanted to relax on the lawn on a beautiful day. To top it all off, the weather proved to be perfectly sunny for our outdoor event.

We were able to get two amazing bands for TV to talk about, music to jam about. The Wales and Blake Whitworth both made the trip from their own college towns to support the CW. Check out their music at http://www.myspace.com/thewalesmusic and http://www.myspace.com/blakewhitworth.

Since it was such a beautiful day outside, we also had corn hole and ladder golf set up for guests to win some CW prizes such as posters, door hangers, and pens. We also had a raffle full of great prizes from businesses around Milledgeville. Many businesses were willing to help out with raising awareness for CW's shows, 90210 and Melrose Place.

Here is a list of the amazing sponsors we had at our event. We are very grateful that all of them were willing to help. We couldn't have pulled off an event like we did without all the help we got from these Milledgeville businesses:

Carmike Cinemas

Tucan Tans

Kuroshima

Pig In A Pit

Deano's

Milledgeville-Baldwin County Convention & Visitors Bureau

Blockbuster

Flair for Hair

French Vill'Edge

Villane's

Scoop's

Chili's