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January 11, 2010 New Website Whips Up Free Potatoes
July 14, 2009 Outdoor Writer Places in Prominent Competition
March 11, 2009 Female Outdoor Journalist Earns National Membership
Sept 09, 2008 Local Production Company Premieres Prime Time Special - Wolves : Predators or Prey
May 28, 2008 New Production Company Wins Two Awards
March 20, 2008 Local Production Company Wins High Honors for 'Idaho Meth Project Awareness'

New Website Whips Up Free Potatoes

January 11, 2010

Idaho Falls, Idaho, January 11, 2010—Tight Line Media is launching its new website with free mashed potatoes.

Go to: www.tightlinemedia.com. Sign up for the newsletter and Tight Line Media will send you a coupon for a free pouch of mashed potatoes from Idahoan Foods.

Also check out enhanced features for Time OUT with Kris Millgate online at: www.tightlinemedia.com

Time OUT with Kris Millgate is a weekly outdoor news segment produced by Tight Line Media.

Time OUT schedule:

KPVI New 6 – Wednesday and Sunday at 10pm

KFXP Fox 31 – Wednesday at 9pm

Online – all the time www.tightlinemedia.com

Time OUT online offers outdoor news, snow & water conditions, fishing & hunting tips, outdoor events and exclusive online only contests.

Visitors can also search the new Time OUT video archives for their favorite stories. “Time OUT viewers are always asking me how they can catch the segment again,” says Kris Millgate, Time OUT host and Tight Line Media CEO. “Now they can watch online anytime and while they’re there, they can look at other projects Tight Line Media produces in and out of news.”

Multi-media production house Tight Line Media contracted with web designer Web Impakt to create the new site. Web Impakt spent three months developing one site for Tight Line Media production clients and Time OUT news viewers. “Web Impakt was honored to develop Tight Line Media’s new website. Kris has a definite vision, and I think the new site does a wonderful job at showcasing her talents,” says Lindsey Anderson, Web Impakt CEO.

Visit the website whipping up free mashed potatoes: www.tightlinemedia.com  

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Outdoor Writer Places in Prominent Competition

July 14, 2009

Grand Rapids, Mich. – Idaho Falls, Idaho, resident Kris Millgate earned prestigious Excellence in Craft awards from Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA), with recognition at OWAA’s annual conference in Grand Rapids, June 16, 2009.

Millgate was awarded first place in the outdoor ethics/take pride in America contest, newspaper category. This contest recognizes excellence in communicating issues and answers that affect ethics in the outdoors and/or communicating the “Take Pride” message, i.e. encouraging the public to take care of our natural and cultural resources; getting people involved, through volunteering, to correct what has been abused; and generating new conservation projects. Her submission, “Refuge refugees,” was published in the (Idaho Falls) Post Register, April 2008.

Millgate is a freelance outdoor writer and photographer based in Idaho. She produces multimedia content for NBC and FOX in Idaho Falls, Outdoor Idaho on PBS, The Post Register, several magazines and the Associated Press.

The 1,300-member Outdoor Writers Association of America is the oldest and largest association of professional outdoor communicators in the United States. It was organized in 1927 by members of the Izaak Walton League of America and includes professional communicators dedicated to sharing the outdoor experience. OWAA’s professionals include writers, photographers, outdoors radio- and television show hosts, book authors, videographers, lecturers and artists. The association is headquartered in Missoula, Mont. For more information, go to www.owaa.org.

For more information on this award, contact Kris Millgate, P.O. Box 50242, Idaho Falls, ID 83405; 208-709-0309; kris@tightlinemedia.biz

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Female Outdoor Journalist Earns National Membership

March 11, 2009

Idaho Falls, Idaho, March 11, 2009—Tight Line Media CEO Kris Millgate is the newest member of Outdoor Writers Association of America.

Millgate is an award-winning outdoor and environmental journalist. She hosts the weekly outdoor segment Time OUT with Kris Millgate airing on NBC and Fox in Southeast Idaho.

Millgate is recognized in the March edition of OWAA’s magazine Outdoors Unlimited and will be featured as a contributing writer in the April issue. She’ll discuss the challenges of working in the male dominated outdoor industry and presents print and video samples of her multi-media work.

OWAA, founded in 1927, is a nonprofit, international organization representing a diverse group of professional communicators dedicated to sharing the outdoor experience. Its 1,300 members are commissioned to provide honest, thorough and unbiased outdoor coverage. Members of OWAA are experienced outdoor people, the nation's best outdoor writers, editors, book authors, broadcasters, film and video producers, photographers, artists and lecturers.

View productions from the newest OWAA member, Tight Line Media CEO Kris Millgate at: www.tightlinemedia.biz.

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Local Production Company Premieres Prime Time Special - Wolves : Predators or Prey

Sept 09, 2008

Idaho Falls, Idaho,September 8, 2008-Tight Line Media proudly presents a half-hour, prime time, special edition of Time OUT with Kris Millgate. The weekly outdoor segment, Time OUT with Kris Millgate is expanding for a half hour special in September.

Wolves: Predators or Prey

KPVI News 6 Idaho Falls/Pocatello

September 11, 2008 8:30pm
September 13, 2008 5:30pm

Fox 31 Idaho Falls/Pocatello

September 11, 2008 9:30pm
September 14, 2008 9:30pm

Fox 35 Twin Falls

September 11, 2008 9:30pm
September 14, 2008 9:30pm

Award winning reporter Kris Millgate investigates wolves from every angle talking with those who want to watch wolves and those who want to stalk wolves. Follow the timeline from reintroduction in the 90s to now and find out what will happen next to the animal thriving in a place where it is not wanted by many.

The controversial reintroduced wolves in Idaho reached a pinnacle in the Spring when the federal government removed wolves from the Endangered Species List only to return the pack to the list before the state’s planned wolf hunt started this Fall.

View segments of Wolves: Predators or Prey and other award-winning productions at Tight Line Media’s website: www.tightlinemedia.biz

Tight Line Media is owned and operated by multi-media professional, Kris Millgate. She hosts Time OUT with Kris Millgate for KPVI Newschannel 6, produces half hour shows for Outdoor Idaho, and writes for Post Register Outdoors, Idaho Falls Magazine and the Associated Press.

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New Production Company Wins Two Awards

May 28, 2008

Idaho Falls, Idaho, May 28, 2008-Tight Line Media is earning national honors with two Communicator Awards of Distinction for its production of Idaho Meth Awareness and Time OUT with Kris Millgate.

Mountain View Hospital contracted with Tight Line Media for Idaho Meth Awareness, which debuted at the hospital’s Idaho Meth Project fundraising banquet in October 2007. The video also won a silver Telly earlier this year.

KPVI News Channel 6 airs Time OUT with Kris Millgate bi-weekly in the Idaho Falls/Pocatello television market during the 10 p.m. newscast. Kris investigated issues with the recently de-listed grizzly bear in the special three part series Bear Country.

View the award-winning productions, Time OUT with Kris Millgate and Idaho Meth Awareness, at Tight Line Media’s website: www.tightlinemedia.biz

Tight Line Media is owned and operated by multi-media professional, Kris Millgate. She hosts Time OUT with Kris Millgate for KPVI Newschannel 6, produces half hour shows for Outdoor Idaho, and writes for Post Register Outdoors, Idaho Falls Magazine and the Associated Press.

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Local Production Company Wins High Honors for 'Idaho Meth Project Awareness'

March 20, 2008

Idaho Falls, Idaho-March 20, 2008-Tight Line Media is earning national honors with a Silver Telly Award for its production of ‘Idaho Meth Project Awareness.’

Mountain View Hospital contracted with Tight Line Media for the video, which debuted at the hospital’s ‘Idaho Meth Project’ fundraising banquet in October 2007. “This is a tribute to all the people who came together to fight this epidemic, especially those willing to share their revealing stories about the kind of damage meth can do,” says Frank McGovern, Mountain View Hospital Director of Public Relations. “Mountain View is proud to be a part of this."

‘Idaho Meth Project Awareness’ also aired as a special on KIFI Local News 8 in October. The 10-minute documentary profiles the lives of four local people either addicted to meth or related to a meth user. Their painful struggle reveals the challenge facing the community and the state in the fight against meth. “We have a lot of work ahead of us,” says Meghan Ronk, Idaho Meth Project Executive Director. “We have great faith the Idaho Meth Project is going to work. We’ll do everything we can. It’s something we can’t afford not to address.”

View a segment of the award-winning ‘Idaho Meth Project Awareness’ at Tight Line Media’s website: www.tightlinemedia.biz

Tight Line Media is owned and operated by multi-media professional, Kris Millgate, who also produces Time OUT with Kris Millgate for KPVI Newschannel 6 and writes for Post Register Outdoors and Idaho Falls Magazine. “I had no idea how deadly meth was until I met the people in this documentary,” says Kris Millgate, Tight Line Media CEO. “The opportunity to spend so many hours with them, in and out of the editing room, really opened my eyes to the scary situation surrounding us.”

The Telly Awards were established in 1978 as the premier award honoring outstanding productions nationally and internationally. More than 14,000 entries are submitted annually for the Telly Awards. Less than 10% of the projects are awarded the Silver Telly, the highest honor issued.

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