[0] PayForView.com Secures Internet Rights to International Soccer Games; Exclusive Five-year Deal Includes USA Woman's Team World Cup and Men's Carlsberg Cup Games Live and Archived.Sports Editors/Soccer Writers & Columnists NEW YORK--(BW SportsWire)--July 26, 2000 PayForView.com (National Quotation Bureau-PAYV), today announced the acquisition of the Internet broadcast rights to two International Soccer Games: The USA Woman's championship Team vs. Norway on July 30th and the Men's Benfica vs. Liverpool game on August 5th. The terms of the deal, completed with Innovative Sports Marketing Sport marketing (or "sports marketing" in the US) (1) the specific application of marketing principles and processes to sport products (e.g., teams, leagues, events, etc.) and (2) the the marketing of non-sports products (e.g., cigarettes, beer, long-distance phone service, etc. this week, includes the exclusive North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Internet broadcast rights to the live games, as well as the right to archive the events on the payforview.com web site and/or syndicate the events to other video web sites for a period of five years. It will be the first time since the 1995 Women's World Cup The Women's World Cup could refer to either the:
Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. will have an opportunity to watch the team in action live on foreign soil. The U.S. women's team is the 1999 Woman's World Woman's World is a popular American supermarket weekly magazine with a circulation of 1.6 million readers. Generally marketed with other tabloid papers, it concentrates on short stories about popular woman-focused subjects such as weight loss, relationship advice and Cup champions. Liverpool is led by superstar Michael Owen
Marc Pitcher, President of PayForView.com, stated, "Our immediate goal is to secure as many exclusive Internet broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems), or IBS, is a provider of television station web sites. IBS hosts over 70 local stations' sites, and co-produced NBCOlympics. licenses that will be extremely beneficial both short and long-term. This is the longest Internet broadcast license for top quality international sporting events ever signed by a streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. company. As broadband continues to roll out and as Internet streaming of compelling content becomes ubiquitous, these types of deals give us the opportunity to maximize the revenue potential over the mid to long term." Doug Jacobs, President of Innovative Sports Marketing, holder of the North American broadcast rights to the games, sees Internet distribution as a valuable part of his company's future sports marketing plans. "Soccer is the most watched and influential game in the world," said Jacobs. "The Internet gives one the opportunity to market directly to the broad-based soccer constituency, particularly in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , where large expatriate communities are anxious to see teams from their countries. By marketing directly to the fan, via cultural or soccer oriented web sites, PayForView.com and Innovative should be able to reach more of the fans who desire to watch these games". The first game, USA vs. Norway, will be broadcast live and free of charge as a video only test via the PayForView.com web site at 2:00 pm on July 30th, then re-broadcast with triggered parallel content and a live chat room hosted by 1999 USA Woman's World Cup team member Tracy DuCar at 12:00 noon on August 4th. The Benfica vs. Liverpool game will be shown live at 11.00 am on August 5th, complete with triggered parallel content and live chat hosted by former Chicago Fire Chicago fire conflagration destroyed most of city (1871). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 94] See : Disaster and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Metrostars team member Zack Thornton. Included in the parallel content will be news, bios, game and player information and links to the most popular soccer content available on the web. Both events are being presented as part of PayForView.com's ongoing beta phase of the site, and feedback from viewers is welcomed at feedback@payforview.com. PayForView.com is an integrated on-line and off-line entertainment company that will distribute movies, music, sports and live events direct to viewers on a pay-for-view, retail and e-commerce basis. The company has distributed several pay-for-view events and is in the process of acquiring additional content and creating programming for broadcast specifically over the Internet and traditional media. Additionally, the company owns several off-line interests. Voyager International Entertainment is currently packaging several motion picture projects for production. Voyager Film Sales is the Company's foreign sales division for these projects. Rap and hip-hop music label, Street Solid Records, is distributed through K-Tel Distribution (NASDQ: KTEL). CERTAIN INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS COMMUNICATION (AS WELL AS INFORMATION INCLUDED IN ORAL STATEMENTS OR OTHER WRITTEN STATEMENTS MADE OR TO BE MADE BY PAYFORVIEW. CONTAINS STATEMENTS THAT ARE FORWARD LOOKING, SUCH AS STATEMENTS RELATING TO relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc THE FUTURE ANTICIPATED DIRECTION OF THE INTERNET INDUSTRY, PLANS FOR FUTURE EXPANSION, VARIOUS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES, PLANNED CAPITAL EXPENDITURES, FUTURE FUNDING RESOURCES, ANTICIPATED SALES GROWTH AND POTENTIAL CONTRACTS. THESE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO A NUMBER OF KNOWN AND UNKNOWN RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES THAT COULD CAUSE ACTUAL OPERATIONS OR RESULTS TO DIFFER MATERIALLY FROM THOSE ANTICIPATED. |
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