Turner Broadcasting taps ACE Media Corp. to rep ‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne’
 
(April 23, 2007) ACE (Andrea’s Communications Empire) Media Corp. has been selected to represent Turner Broadcasting System’s (TBS) multi-cultural ad sales for the original, first-run syndicated sitcom, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. The series, which enjoyed a highly-successful test run in summer 2006, will launch nationally with a 100 complete episodes on TBS in primetime in June 2007. 

“ACE is excited to not only do business with TBS and its award-winning ad sales team, but also to represent such a highly-anticipated and groundbreaking property as House of Payne,” says Andrea Holmes Thompkins, (above) president and CEO.

Tyler Perry’s House of Payne follows the comic situations that ensue when a multi-generational family lives under one roof.  It stars Allen Payne (“New Jack City,” “Jason’s Lyric”) as C.J. Payne who is forced to move in with his parents after his house burns down. The series is produced by Tyler Perry, who since making his film debut with “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” has become a multi-media phenomenon with a roster of successful film, stage, TV and book projects, most recently Lionsgate’s “Daddy’s Little Girls.”

ACE, an ethnically-focused broadcasting media sales and marketing communications firm, was founded in 2004 by Holmes Thompkins, a veteran media sales executive. She who has more than 20 years media sales experience including work with WWOR-TV and WNYW-TV.

Among the programs that ACE has represented are The Super Bowl, The Emmy Awards, American Idol and World Wrestling Entertainment. The firm’s client roster has included American Express, BMW, Chase, Coca Cola, Chrysler, Ford, Kraft,  MasterCard, McDonalds’s, Mercedes Benz, Nike, Pepsi, Proctor & Gamble, Toyota, Visa and Walmart. ACE also represents Uptown Media Network, a nationally-syndicated urban media network, a division of First World Syndication.

For further information contact ACE Media at 212-247-2665 or aholmes@acemediacorp.com.




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