BRBTV marks its 10th anniversary all year long in 2008, with special deals on the full line of BRBTV products as well as other fun stuff.
United States of America (Press Release) January 1, 2008 --
BRBTV, the web and print brainchild of author Billie Rae Bates, celebrates its 10th year in 2008, and Bates says she's got lots of fun stuff planned for the anniversary year.
"In 1998, BRBTV was just a crazy idea I had while working in the newspaper business in Detroit," Bates says, "and sometimes, when I look back at the past decade, I can't believe how it's grown."
As part of the anniversary celebration, BRBTV.com is featuring signed copies of the print editions of the BRBTV reference books, special bundle packages of the BRBTV electronic products and other features like original press kits of '90s TV shows.
BRBTV was officially launched in 1998 with the Destination: Dallas fan website, dedicated to the popular CBS-TV primetime soap "Dallas" with episode guide, character guide and "fun and useless information" about the show and its stars. Bates followed it up with fan sites for "Dynasty" and "The Dukes of Hazzard," following the same general format and learning as much about HTML as she could in her free evening hours.
As the years passed, she added more and more content to the sites, based on her own viewing of the episodes as well as news stories and items she'd clipped over the years. An editor and writer who holds a bachelor's degree in journalism who by then had worked at three different daily newspapers, Bates applied her love of research and reporting to the BRBTV sites.
It was in 2003 when Bates, who'd already published a Detroit-based novel, "Rubi," realized that she had enough content to actually parlay these fan sites into books, themselves. Thus, the BRBTV series of reference books was born, in printable, letter-sized, PDF format, with hyperlinks and full interactivity throughout.
Not long afterward, Bates added a fourth show to the BRBTV lineup, the '80s daytime soap "Santa Barbara," which she watched and loved all through high school and college.
In late 2004, the first print edition of a BRBTV reference book was published: "Dynasty High," named for the website it evolved from. "Them Dukes! Them Dukes!" followed in early 2006, and "Destination: Dallas" rounded out the third print edition of the original three e-books in late 2007.
"It's been a lot of fun," Bates says of the whole BRBTV thing, "and it's definitely been a labor of love."
"In 1998, BRBTV was just a crazy idea I had while working in the newspaper business in Detroit," Bates says, "and sometimes, when I look back at the past decade, I can't believe how it's grown."
As part of the anniversary celebration, BRBTV.com is featuring signed copies of the print editions of the BRBTV reference books, special bundle packages of the BRBTV electronic products and other features like original press kits of '90s TV shows.
BRBTV was officially launched in 1998 with the Destination: Dallas fan website, dedicated to the popular CBS-TV primetime soap "Dallas" with episode guide, character guide and "fun and useless information" about the show and its stars. Bates followed it up with fan sites for "Dynasty" and "The Dukes of Hazzard," following the same general format and learning as much about HTML as she could in her free evening hours.
As the years passed, she added more and more content to the sites, based on her own viewing of the episodes as well as news stories and items she'd clipped over the years. An editor and writer who holds a bachelor's degree in journalism who by then had worked at three different daily newspapers, Bates applied her love of research and reporting to the BRBTV sites.
It was in 2003 when Bates, who'd already published a Detroit-based novel, "Rubi," realized that she had enough content to actually parlay these fan sites into books, themselves. Thus, the BRBTV series of reference books was born, in printable, letter-sized, PDF format, with hyperlinks and full interactivity throughout.
Not long afterward, Bates added a fourth show to the BRBTV lineup, the '80s daytime soap "Santa Barbara," which she watched and loved all through high school and college.
In late 2004, the first print edition of a BRBTV reference book was published: "Dynasty High," named for the website it evolved from. "Them Dukes! Them Dukes!" followed in early 2006, and "Destination: Dallas" rounded out the third print edition of the original three e-books in late 2007.
"It's been a lot of fun," Bates says of the whole BRBTV thing, "and it's definitely been a labor of love."
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