Former restaurant now a cluster of ‘creative offices’ for small businesses

Commercial Dispatch

November 25, 2009

by Tim Pratt

Jim Lytle can’t help but get a little teary-eyed when he talks about his new business, Mediagraphix Photography, on North Jackson Street.
Lytle for years served as chief photographer at Mississippi State University’s Office of Agricultural Communications. He also has shot for The Associated Press for more than 20 years. Continue Reading

Broadcast Media CEO tabbed as business leader

Top 40 Under 40: Robbie C. Coblentz, 36,

President and CEO, Broadcast Media Group, Inc.

STARKVILLE – In the late 1980s, Robbie Coblentz helped make a music video that aired on a cable channel in his hometown of Meridian.

The impressionable teen fell in love with the creative process of video production, bought a small professional editing system, taught himself how’ to use it, and set up shop in his room. Continue Reading

BMG wins national awards for video production

Broadcast Media Group wins national awards for video production

STARKVILLE, MS (July 30, 2009)—Broadcast Media Group of Starkville has won two Telly Awards for videos produced in 2008, bringing the company total to nine Tellies. Continue Reading

“Oh Wow! Cows” featured

‘Cow’ flick a real hit, Miss. dad discovers

May 31, 2004

By Gary Pettus
gpettus@clarionledger.com

Watching his young son stare wide-eyed at the large animals grazing in roadside pastures, Robbie Coblentz realized you can get more than milk out of a cow.

An education, for one thing.

“Our son David, who’s almost 3 now, was about 18 months old when this started. He thinks cows are the greatest thing in the world,” says Coblentz, of the video production company Broadcast Media Group in Starkville. Continue Reading