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By the Immigrant Magazine, Sept. 9, 2011

E! Co-founder and President/CEO Metan Development Group Larry Namer will be honored on September 10, 2011 at the 4th Annual Investment Seminar & Global Independence Day, to be held in Beverly Hills at the legendary Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The fourth annual event will host dignitaries and business leaders from more than 196 countries, including the Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor, City of Los Angeles.

Part of the event is a Global Awards Ceremony honoring noted individuals for their outstanding contributions to international business, philanthropy and entertainment. Larry Namer will receive the “Aaron Spelling Award” for his pioneering work in the areas of television, domestically and globally.

“I’m delighted to be honored with such a prestigious award that bears the name of the most influential producer and creative mind in television history,” said Namer.

An accomplished entrepreneur with over 40 years professional experience, Mr. Namer is the co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, a company now valued at over $3.5 billion USD, and the creator of several successful companies in the United States and overseas.

Among those companies are Comspan Communications that pioneered Western forms of entertainment in the former Soviet Union, including the syndication of the popular soap opera Santa Barbara, which ran for 10 years in the region, and Steeplechase Media that served as the primary consultant to Microsoft’s MiTV for developing interactive TV applications. In recent years, Mr. Namer has become recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on new technology and how it is fundamentally altering the business of international media and entertainment. Among the companies that have enlisted his expertise are Microsoft, Paul Allen’s Digeo, World Digital Media Group (a joint venture of Radio Shack), EchoStar and Sirius Radio network.

Mr. Namer’s latest venture, Metan Development Group (Metan) was created to develop and distribute entertainment content and media specifically for Chinese speaking audiences in China and abroad. Namer’s partners on this venture are entertainment industry veteran Martin Pompadur and Amerilink founder Jean Zhang.

Metan’s most notable projects include Hello! Hollywood!, a weekly entertainment news series tailored to Chinese audiences, offering up the latest in celebrity and lifestyle news, and covering the most glamorous red carpet events and award shows. Since its launch in summer 2009, the series is now available on over 40 television stations in China and nine in North America, reaching more over half a billion potential TV viewers. The series is also featured on China’s top Internet portals where over one million people watch online weekly.

Additionally, he serves as Senior Advisor, Strategic Development to Eurocinema On Demand, the only 24/7 on demand foreign film channel now available in 36 million homes via cable and satellite in North America.

About Metan Development Group- Launched in 2009, Metan Development Group LLC (Metan) is a venture created to develop and distribute entertainment content and media specifically for international markets. The company’s founders are entertainment industry veteran Martin Pompadur, E! Entertainment Television co-founder Larry Namer and Amerilink founder Jean Zhang. www.metanmedia.com