Post by uptowndragon on May 13, 2006 13:51:22 GMT 7
Had a chance to attend the OIAM Press Conference held at 2.30pm on 11/05/06 at the Johore Room at Shangrila Hotel KL.
The highlight of the PC was the introduction of the 2 main sponsors TMNet & BHPetroleum, as well as the official launching of the OAIM microsite hosted by Blue Hyppo (oneinamillion.bluehyppo.com). Officiating the event was 8TVs CEO, Izham Omar himself, who gave complete details of the show and its process, and fielded questions from the members of press. The event was well attended by press, sponsors & invited guest, who were later treated to a decent buffet spread (although MC Rina joked that since they spent all their money on the prize, they could only afford roti canai & teh tarik).
Izham receiving key from Tan, MD of BHPetroleum
Izham, Blue Hyppo & Michael Lai, CEO of TM Net
Izham & Michael launching the OIAM microsite
One of the interesting things to note, as mentioned by Izham, was that elimination rounds will also include a "blind test" where the judges will not be able to see the contestants when they sing. The 89 qualifiers will be whittled down to 40, and then to 20 and finally 10. An additional 2 will be given a 2nd chance to make it Top 12 during the 5 day process.
The judges have been instructed to be really stringent in the qualifying and will select the finalist as if they are looking for their very own artiste who will make them a ton of money.
Izham also announced that they will be forming a brand new record company to manage the winner, which I am not mistaken, will be headed by him. Apparently he misses being in the music business which he gave up when he headed up 8TV.
He also announced that 9 popular artistes where among the ones who qualified to the elimination rounds although he read out a list of more than 13 which one pressmen pointed out. Asked whether there were artiste who didnt qualify at the auditions, Izham just smiled and said there were a few but declined to say who they where, and asked the pressmen to fish it out through the grapevine.
MC for the day, Rina & Adam of 8 Team sembang sembang
The highlight of the PC was the introduction of the 2 main sponsors TMNet & BHPetroleum, as well as the official launching of the OAIM microsite hosted by Blue Hyppo (oneinamillion.bluehyppo.com). Officiating the event was 8TVs CEO, Izham Omar himself, who gave complete details of the show and its process, and fielded questions from the members of press. The event was well attended by press, sponsors & invited guest, who were later treated to a decent buffet spread (although MC Rina joked that since they spent all their money on the prize, they could only afford roti canai & teh tarik).
Izham receiving key from Tan, MD of BHPetroleum
Izham, Blue Hyppo & Michael Lai, CEO of TM Net
Izham & Michael launching the OIAM microsite
One of the interesting things to note, as mentioned by Izham, was that elimination rounds will also include a "blind test" where the judges will not be able to see the contestants when they sing. The 89 qualifiers will be whittled down to 40, and then to 20 and finally 10. An additional 2 will be given a 2nd chance to make it Top 12 during the 5 day process.
The judges have been instructed to be really stringent in the qualifying and will select the finalist as if they are looking for their very own artiste who will make them a ton of money.
Izham also announced that they will be forming a brand new record company to manage the winner, which I am not mistaken, will be headed by him. Apparently he misses being in the music business which he gave up when he headed up 8TV.
He also announced that 9 popular artistes where among the ones who qualified to the elimination rounds although he read out a list of more than 13 which one pressmen pointed out. Asked whether there were artiste who didnt qualify at the auditions, Izham just smiled and said there were a few but declined to say who they where, and asked the pressmen to fish it out through the grapevine.
MC for the day, Rina & Adam of 8 Team sembang sembang