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Burbank, CA, November 12, 2003- TVN Entertainment
Corporation, the leading provider of on demand television
programming, management and delivery services, today announced
a new Video-On-Demand (VOD) services agreement with ESPN,
The Worldwide Leader in Sports.
TVN will provide ESPN with a range of VOD Services in support
of ESPN's distribution strategy, including encoding, asset
management, site-specific metadata and multicast transport
to VOD systems throughout North America via TVN's ADONISS
platform. Additionally, TVN and ESPN will explore other VOD
opportunities including rapid delivery and real time encoding
of time-sensitive content, as part of TVN's TVNow rapid VOD
transport service.
"ESPN is committed to supporting our affiliates with
outstanding content that will allow customers to experience
high-quality, branded content from our extensive VOD library,"
said Matt Murphy, VP of Interactive Sales for ESPN. "TVN
supports our VOD efforts with their ability to customize packages
market by market. The flexibility that their platform offers
will bring our unique VOD titles to the local and regional
levels and capitalize on the seasonality of major sporting
events."
"Many networks with strong brands are finding ways to
exploit the VOD platform in which the MSOs have invested heavily
- and ESPN is at the forefront of that emerging trend,"
said Jim Riley, SVP of Sales & Business Development for
TVN. "When you combine ESPN's exciting content packages
and stellar brand with TVN's distribution base and our ADONISS
system, you begin to see that VOD is much bigger than just
movies on demand."
About TVN Entertainment Corporation
TVN Entertainment, the leading provider of on demand television
programming, management and delivery services, enables Video-On-Demand
(VOD), Pay-Per-View (PPV) and direct response programming
reaching over 35 million U.S. cable television households.
TVN currently distributes more than 1500 hours VOD programming
from over 70 content providers. In addition to comprehensive
programming services, TVN Entertainment offers the only single-source
management and distribution solution for VOD and PPV, including
content aggregation, packaging, encoding, asset management
and transport via satellite to all video service providers.
TVN Entertainment has been chosen as the VOD solution for
many leading MSOs, including Adelphia, Charter, Comcast, Insight
and Mediacom.
About ESPN
ESPN, Inc., The Worldwide Leader In Sports, is 80 percent
owned by ABC, Inc., which is an indirect subsidiary of The
Walt Disney Company. The Hearst Corporation holds a 20 percent
interest in ESPN. ESPN, Inc. includes six domestic television
networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS, ESPN Now and
ESPN Today), ESPN International (24 international networks
and syndication), ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine,
ESPN Regional Television, SportsTicker, and ESPN Enterprises,
overseeing brand extensions such as the ESPN Zones, interactive
sports-themed dining and entertainment experiences.
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