Experience, Relationships, Creativity, and Technology result in Maximum PR!
Mission
The Press Office mission is to aggressively represent the music industry's highest caliber artists, labels and professionals with reverence and vision and to generate mass awareness of, and exposure to, their finest art.
About
Recognized as a pioneer and innovator in Entertainment Public Relations and Artist Development, The Press Office’s founder-owner, Jim Della Croce, has been featured throughout the international media in: MSNBC TV, The New York Times, BBC, London Times, Billboard, Washington Times, Fox TV, CBS, ABC and NBC TV. He proudly serves a broad spectrum of valued clients with reverence, respect, creativity, honest-counsel, strategic-planning, strong and effective execution and consistency for over 20 years! We are deeply indebted to our friends and clients within the industry.
Approach
Our mission is to strategize and design media campaigns that WIN! Carefully crafted Media Plans that clearly provide a road map for us to follow to aid us as we generate MAXIMUM PR for our valued clients. Exposure that adds great value to your name, trademark, recording project and/or event by booking and securing valuable national media opportunities worth, in many cases, millions of dollars over the life of your project. Our seasoned media specialists bring to industry public relations backgrounds in journalism (Billboard, Pro Sound News, R&R, TV Guide, People), record and TV production, heading record label departments (BNA Entertainment/BMG), national TV, radio network booking, photography and marketing.
With a Keen Eye on the Bottom-Line, We Promote Your Good News to the World.
WE TARGET, REACH AND IMPACT A MIX OF SOME 8,000 STRONG ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY TV BOOKERS, CONCERT TALENT BUYERS MEDIA VIPS AND TASTEMAKERS
We Book TV Shows. We have booked our artists on TV’s most important, national, international and regional television shows and channels including: VH-1’s Behind The Music, The Late Show with David Letterman, MTV, NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, Fox TV’s Fox and Friends, O’Reilly Factor, E!, BBC, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Grammy Awards show, The Macy’s Day Parade, The Jerry Lewis Telethon, Fox TV, CBS This Morning, NBC’s Weekend Today, HBO, the Country Music Association Awards Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, the Academy of Country Music Awards show, the Grand Ole Opry, MSNBC, FOX TV, MuchMusic (Canada), The Family Channel, The Today Show, Live with Regis & Kelly, The American Music Awards, Entertainment Tonight, 20/20, Primetime Thursday, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards Show, CNN, A&E and others. In addition, we have also booked “host” slots for television award shows and specials for many of our clients. Additionally...through our sister company, Pathfinder Productions, Jim produces videos and TV specials (reference) MTV networks show, Classic Rock with guests: Jethro Tull, Christopher Cross, Edgar Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears, Ambrosia...
Print (Magazines & Newspapers)
Through The Press Office’s vast state-of-the-art electronic database of electronic outlets, magazines, newspapers and specialized news services, an artist’s stock rises with the placement of each cover story, photo, profile, feature, review, news item, career update and tour itinerary.
Among the hundreds publications we have secured for our clients are USA Today, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Esquire, Billboard, Radio & Records, People, L.A. Times, Tower Pulse, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Interview, Musician, Spin, US, Stereo Review, Performance, Pollstar, Country Weekly, plus AP, UPI, Reuters and hundreds of other outlets.
Syndicated Radio
STRONG MEDIA RELATIONSHIPS BRING RESULTS with offices in Nashville & The Poconos, PA at the world’s hub of top media outlets. Scoring repeat impressions at radio greatly supports record-label efforts to sell records. Millions of people have heard--and heard about—Press Office clients on SIRIUS Radio Networks, Jones Radio Network, ABC Radio, Westwood One Radio Networks, Sony Radio Networks, Premiere Radio Networks, MJI Broadcasting, CNN, CBS, NBC, NPR, AP Radio, United Stations Radio Networks, Launch Radio, XM and others. And..we’ve also produced, written and edited syndicated radio specials for CBS Records, BNA/BMG, Epic Records, Arista Records, The Beach Boys and many others. Sample: The Gotta Drive interview show with Garth Brooks and Steve Wariner is a sample.
Tour Press
Helping sell hard tickets to our clients' concerts is one of our chief concerns.
Working six weeks in advance, we support each date by blanketing all relevant media within a 100-mile radius (or more) of the venue. And we don't just send out news releases and press kits--we follow up with phone calls aggressively pursuing features, covers and reviews on each date.
Our tour press is supported by state-of-the-art database technology and a corps of veteran, media-savvy publicists. It is worth noting that when our efforts sell just 15 extra tickets per date, our fee is covered!
Client History
Over the years we have either launched or help establish and develop the careers of Rock, Country, Folk and Bluegrass artists including: John Anderson, Vince Gill, Ralph Stanley, The Beach Boys, Grand Funk Railroad, Martina McBride, Jesse Winchester, Little Feat, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, The Band, The Clash, Eddie Money, Bad Company, Aaron Tippin, Alabama, Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers, Jesse Winchester, Night Ranger, Clint Black, Lorrie Morgan, Karla Bonoff, Steve Wariner, Leon Redbone, Roy Rogers, Little Feat, Phil Vassar, Pam Tillis, NASCAR driver Chase Mattioli, The Power Station w/Robert Palmer, Hippiefest Tour, Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone...
Corporate Clients
(Record Companies, Concert Venues, Casinos and more)
In addition to working closely with a broad palette of recording and performing artists, we have been responsible press agents for dozens of leading entertainment industry corporations including: Arista Records Nashville, Asylum Records, BNA Entertainment, Nashville Songwriters Foundation, BMG,
Capitol Records-EMI, Capitol Records,
EMI-CMG Records, RCA Records Nashville, Sony Music and Warner Bros. Nashville, The Mountain Laurel Center for the Arts, The Liquid Fence Company, Vernon Downs Casino (NY), Tioga Downs Casino (NY), Red Man-Swedish Match, MAXIM Magazine, and a host of independent music-related concert venues, publishers, record companies and their top brass.
Recent TV Bookings
NBC Today Show, ABC Good Morning America, Regis and Kelly, NBC / Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NBC Weekend Today, MSNBC, Extra!, Diy Network, Imus In The Morning, SIRIUS /The Howard Stern Show, PBS/ A July 4, 25th Anniversary Special, Fox And Friends, ET Entertainment Tonight , FOX O’Reilly Factor, Access Hollywood, Inside Edition, CMT, VH-1, VH-1 Classic, GAC TV, RFD Crook and Chase Show.
CORPORATE CLIENTS
Arista Records, Asylum Records, BNA/BMG, Capitol Records, CBS Records, CMT, EMI-Capitol, EMI-CMG, RCA Records,Vernon Downs Casino, Mountan Laurel Center for the Perfomring Arts, River North Records, Tioga Downs Casino, Sony Music, Arista Texas Records, Warner Bros. Records
ARTISTS
| The Beach Boys Bad Company Badfinger The Band Bob Woodruff Bryndle (Karla Bonoff, Andrew Gold, Wendy Waldman, Kenny Edwards) Eddie Money Felix Cavaliere Hal Katchum Holly Dunn Jerry Clower Jesse Winchester Jim & Jesse |
Aaron Tippin John Anderson Jim Horn Keith Stegall Leon Redbone Levon Helm Little Feat Mark Farner Martina McBride Merle Haggard Radney Foster Night Ranger Pam Tillis Paul Overstreet Prairie Oyster Pure Prairie League |
Rick Derringer Ronna Reeves Run C&W Sherrie' Auston Stephanie Bentley Steve Wariner The Kentucky HeadHunters The Power Station (Robert Palmer, Andy Taylor) The Remingtons The Tractors Valerie Carter Vince Gill Waylon Jennings Ralph Stanley |
SOUNDTRACKS, TRIBUTES & BOOKS
Hope Floats
Big Mon: The Songs of Bill Monroe
Come Together: America Salutes the Beatles
Heavy Metal-Arista Style
O' Brother Where Art Thou
Mama's Hungry Eyes:
A Tribute to Merle Haggard
Garth Brooks: Platinum Cowboy (St. Martin's Press)
The Roads That Brought Us Home (Mountain State Press)
The Official Country Music Directory (Entertainment Media Corp.)
Chicken Soup For The Country Soul (Health Communications, Inc.)
Nashville: The Pioneers of Guitar Town (Stewart, Tabori, and Chang)