Surge Inks Deals for Tred Barta, the Star of Hit OLN Show The Best and Worst of Tred Barta : ACR Electronics, Winslow, Rampage Yachts, 3Rivers Canyon Ammo Sign On
May 17, 2006
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Surge Inks Deals for Tred Barta, the Star of Hit OLN Show “The Best and Worst of Tred Barta”: ACR Electronics, Winslow, Rampage Yachts, 3Rivers & Canyon Ammo Sign On
Mark Freedman says his Surge Licensing is signing deals for TV star Tred Barta, whose hit OLN series, “The Best and Worst of Tred Barta,” is attracting national attention. Freedman says www.tredbarta.com will offer 24/7 online information about the hot TV star who is opening a new era in licensing.
Syosset, NY May 17, 2006 — Surge Licensing announced a series of licensing and merchandising deals for Tred Barta, the outdoors maverick and star of the hit OLN series, “The Best And Worst Of Tred Barta,” said Mark Freedman, President of Surge and Executive Producer of the show.
Freedman, famed for creating the phenomenal licensing and entertainment success with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles through Surge, said, “Tred Barta is opening a new era of licensing based on Barta’s real life approach to hunting and fishing. Tred’s fans are loyal to what they call ‘the hard way… the Barta way’ of approaching outdoor adventures and can now enjoy him even more at www.tredbarta.com .”
As OLN-TV’s #1 show, “The Best and Worst of Tred Barta” is in its third hit season, with a growing fan base that enjoys his in your face no-holds-barred entertainment on OLN, Fridays at 9pm ET., with encore airings throughout the week.
Companies joining the Tred Barta team include:
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ACR Electronics, famed for its world acclaimed Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs) and Personal Locating Beacons (PLBs). ACR’s satellite location devices save lives, linking people to responders all over the globe. ACR devices that Tred will promote include the newest in search and rescue technology, the TerraFix 406 GPS PLB for land use, AquaFix PLB for marine use and AeroFix PLB for aviation safety. As an ACR spokesman, Tred says, “Don’t tell me you can’t afford a PLB when your family’s lives may depend upon it. This is a must-have to outdoor enthusiasts.” ACR, a Cobham plc Company, provides safety equipment to the aviation and marine industries as well as to the military since 1956.
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Winslow LifeRaft Company builds the world’s best marine and aviation life rafts and Tred Barta will bring its product story to his fans nationwide. Barta said, “Winslow life rafts are built with one thing in mind, to save your life in offshore emergencies. I demand the best and I don’t leave the dock without a Winslow raft aboard.” Founded in 1941 to provide life rafts during World War II, the company’s life rafts include the innovative Winslow Super-Light™, a superior design engineered for survival in extremes, but light enough to lift and deploy for almost anyone, including women and children.
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Rampage Sport Fishing Yachts launched the limited 33-foot Rampage “Barta Canyon Edition,” featuring more than 50 new design and capability offshore innovations. Barta said, “This rig is battle-wagon tough and can compete in blue water tournaments throughout the world.” It features 428-gallon fuel capacity for extended range, numerous rod holders, four-blade props, underwater lights, top safety and electronics, outriggers and more. Rampage Sport Fishing Yachts, the Offshore Authority, designs and builds rugged blue-water sport fishing yachts that combine comfort and convenience with speed, durability and performance-focused engineering.
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3Rivers Archery, the world’s largest traditional archery supplier, offers quality products and equipment at reasonable prices and caters to outdoor enthusiasts interested in bowhunting and target shooting. Tred, renown for hunting big game with a longbow and homemade wooden arrows, believes archery hunting gives animals a fair chance and enhances the outdoors experience.
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Canyon Ammo Fishing Tackle has launched a Tred Barta inspired series of fishing lures, tackle and rods designed for Big Game Offshore Fishing. With his multiple world record catches on light tackle rod and reel, Tred is a legend in blue water fishing.
Freedman says Barta’s hard edge belies a soft heart that viewers can sense. Barta’s annual Blue Marlin Classic fishing tournament has raised over $1 million to help kids, and has been sponsored by companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Rolex, Rampage Yachts, Caterpillar, Maui Jim, Mercury Marine, OLN-TV, Volvo Penta and many others.
Barta’s honor system scoring catch-and-release tournaments, without money prizes or judges, revolutionized fishing tournaments worldwide. “In my world, your word is your bond,” says Barta.
Barta is a prolific writer who pens his “For The Record” column in Sport Fishing Magazine and has written articles for Big Game Fishing, Yachting and Sports Illustrated. He also authored the book for which the OLN-TV show is named, “The Best & Worst Of Tred Barta.” Barta has also been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, radio reports and television interviews.
Barta says, “I hunt and fish at the hardest level. If you’re going to take an animal, face it. Drop me at noon on a remote mountain with bow and arrow and I’ll have a full belly by dusk.” While his extreme hunting and fishing approach is more like frontier America, Barta is a 21st century man who is both a pilot and owner of a corporate aircraft company, Barta-Iso Aviation.
The New York Times recently reported:
“Mr. Barta, a record-holding saltwater fisherman and big-game hunter with no previous television experience, has become the star of a new cable show on the Outdoor Life Network called “The Best and Worst of Tred Barta,” which has become an unlikely hit for the network.”
Surge Licensing, based in Syosset, NY, licenses entertainment properties worldwide. For more information about Tred Barta visit www.tredbarta.com .
For more information visit www.tredbarta.com or contact Brian Dobson at 203-894-9240 or bd at dobsonpr.com