LDSAudio.com to Offer Support to Emerging and Established LDS Recording Artists

LDSAudio.com to Offer Support to Emerging and Established LDS Recording Artists

OREM, Utah, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- LDSAudio.com, the only diversified download site on the Web for digital LDS audio books, talks, and music is joining with the LDS music establishment to help foster growth in the industry and make the music of talented LDS artists available to a wider audience. The company will co-sponsor two major industry events in the coming months: Highway Records' Utah's Next talent search and the PEARL Awards, a Grammy-style production of the Faith Centered Music Association (FCMA) "recognizing excellence in enriching entertainment."

In sponsoring these events, LDSAudio.com will provide digital download services to Highway Records and FCMA. For Highway Records, the Web site will make the Utah's Next award winner's 4-track album available online for public consumption. For the PEARL Awards, the company will accept digital submissions from nominated artists and provide online sampling and feedback services both for judges and the general public.

The company currently offers online music distribution through its website (www.ldsaudio.com) for most of the major LDS producers, including Deseret Book's entertainment labels (Excel, Highway Records, Shadow Mountain, etc.), Sounds of Zion, Tantara, Prime and others.

"As a unique distribution outlet for LDS music, audio programs, and eventually film and video, we think it's important to be an active participant in the growing LDS entertainment and publishing industries," says Neal Bergstrom, VP of Operations and Content Acquisition at LDSAudio. "We certainly can't take the place of record companies in developing and promoting new talent, but we believe we can play a role in creating wider distribution for existing talent, and in helping new artists get some exposure as well."

About LDSAudio.com

Founded in 2004 LDSAudio.com is part of the LDS Media Network, a division of Infobase Media, LLC focused on the LDS market. Infobase Media makes valuable text, audio and video content, in every field of human knowledge, available in digital format. Deseret Book is a strategic partner with Infobase Media for content, marketing and distribution of audio books and music in MP3 format, as well as electronic texts included in the LDS Collectors Library 2005. Other content providers include Brigham Young University, Excel Entertainment, Litchfield Associates, Prime Recording, Sounds of Zion, and Sound Concepts among others. The LDS Media Network includes LDSAudio.com and LDSLibrary.com as well as the LDS Audio Listener's Library of digital audio titles on CD ROM. Founded by Paul Allen and Dan Taggart, the co-founders of Infobases, Ancestry.com(TM) and MyFamily.com(TM), Infobase Media is a private company funded by private investors.

CONTACT: Bruce Ackerman 801.437.9660 backerman@ldsaudio.com

Source: LDSAudio.com

CONTACT: Bruce Ackerman of LDSAudio.com, +1-801-437-9660, backerman@ldsaudio.com

Web site: http://www.ldsaudio.com/

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