``The Bandies'' Call for Entries Extended Until Oct. 6 to Accommodate Expansion of Best Broadband Video Service Category to Include Animation.Business Editors/Technology Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2000 Confirmed Judges Include Geraldine Laybourne Geraldine Laybourne founded Oxygen Media and has served as its chairman and chief executive officer since its inception. Oxygen was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape -- creating a television network targeted to younger women. , Simon Applebaum, Paul Bond, Joe Cantwell and Leslie Ellis "The Bandies" (www.thebandies.com), honoring excellence in broadband content, announced the expansion of the best broadband video service category to include animation content or service providers. To accommodate the interest from companies involved in these technologies, deadline for submissions has been extended to Oct. 6, 2000. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held in Downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000, at the Mayan Theater, during the cable industry's Western Show. Leading sponsors of the awards, representing many aspects of the broadband industry, include: Cahners Television Group, ICTV ICTV International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ICTV Independent Community Television Alliance , Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, OpenTV, Game Show Network, The Cable Channel, Heavy.com and Grange Advertising, among others. The program will help bring together players from both the worlds of cable and new media to create an ongoing dialogue on the future of broadband applications. Confirmed Judges include: -- Geraldine Laybourne, chairman and chief executive officer, Oxygen Media -- Simon Applebaum, senior editor, Cablevision Magazine -- Paul Bond, New Media editor, Hollywood Reporter -- Joe Cantwell, executive vice president, new media, Bravo Cable Network -- Leslie Ellis, independent analyst, columnist and author "The Bandies" brings together cable executives, broadband content developers and technology providers for an event that will shape the emerging broadband future by rewarding the best efforts to extend traditional television with the new technologies and tools. These tools include middleware, streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. servers and TV browsers that enable a diverse range of new applications, including: Video-on-Demand, interactive program guides, enhanced television Enhanced Television (ETV) is a collection of specifications developed under the OpenCable project of CableLabs (Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.) that define an ETV Application consisting of resources (files) adhering to the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) content , TV-based e-mail, interactive gaming, Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , hyperlinking, hyperTV and new broadband content built with Web-based tools now reaching to the television. Submission in the form of URLs or videotapes can be submitted via an online application which is posted at www.thebandies.com. Award Categories include: -- Best New Revenue Source -- Best Music Service -- Best Broadband Video or Animation Content or Service -- Most Likely Killer App A software application that is exceptionally useful or exciting. Killer apps are innovative and often represent the first of a new breed, and they are extremely successful. For example, in the late 1970s, the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for the Apple II, providing reason -- Best New Advertising Solution -- Best New Commerce Solution -- Best Enhanced TV Enhanced TV (ETV) is one example of interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to Two-Screen Solutions TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web Implementation -- Best Interface Application -- Best "Vertical" (i.e. niche content) -- Best New Content Creation Tool -- Newest New Thing -- Best of Show The awards will be presented on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000, at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The awards program will bring together professionals from many areas of the broadband sector, including cable MSOs, programming executives, content developers and technology providers. For more information about the Call for Entries, and "The Bandies" Award, visit www.thebandies.com. |
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