RIVR Media is an Emmy Award-winning U.S. based TV production company responsible for Whale Wars[1], Trading Spaces, and The World Series of Poker. They provide programming for cable networks, including A&E, HGTV, DIY Network, GAC, MTV, Fine Living, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, History Channel, ESPN, Animal Planet, Game Show Network, TLC, Nickelodeon, Food Network, Court TV and TNN.
Their production credits include documentaries, reality series, sitcoms, travel series, sports entertainment, post-production services.
RIVR Media is owned by partners Dee Haslam[2] and Rob Lundgren, and is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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RIVR Media originally derives from Bagwell Communications, run by Ross Bagwell Sr. and Ross Bagwell Jr., a Knoxville Tennessee-based advertising agency. In 1985 Bagwell Communications formed a company named 'Cinetel Productions' and engaged with the cable network The Nashville Network (TNN) to produce 415 episodes of I-40 Paradise.
Over the next ten years, Cinetel developed programs for A&E, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Travel Channel, Nickelodeon, and The Nashville Network. In 1994 Cinetel was sold to Scripps Howard[3], a national media company looking to launch HGTV. After the acquisition, the Bagwells formed a new company, Bagwell Entertainment LLC / Ross Television Productions, and continued producing programs for a variety of cable networks, including HGTV.
In 1999, Dee Bagwell Haslam and business partner Rob Lundgren, assumed control of Bagwell Entertainment renaming the company RIVR Media. In 2000 RIVR established RIVR Media Interactive which focused on CD-ROM-based multimedia, Internet, and Interactive content. In 2002 RIVR established RIVR Media Studios, a subsidiary focused on for-hire production and post-production services.