ABC News, Disney and ESPN Mobile Content Launches on ALLTEL Axcess Services.Business Editors NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003 ALLTEL wireless customers are now able to access the magic of Disney, along with sports scores from ESPN.com, up to the minute headlines from ABCNEWS.com and family and entertainment content through their wireless phones. Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney. (WDIG WDIG Walt Disney Internet Group WDIG Walt Disney Imagineering Glendale (California) ) and ALLTEL today announced an assortment of wireless games and services based on content and brands from The Walt Disney Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIS). The new content is available through Axcess, ALLTEL's suite of wireless data services. Current featured content includes: -- A variety of games available through the Axcess Apps service by ALLTEL. -- ESPN's X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. Skateboarding and X Games Snowboarding games. -- Pirates of the Caribbean This article is about the franchise. For other, more specific uses, see Pirates of the Caribbean (disambiguation). For real pirates, see Piracy in the Caribbean. Pirates of the Caribbean , a swashbuckling swash·buck·le intr.v. swash·buck·led, swash·buck·ling, swash·buck·les To act as a swashbuckler, as in a movie or play. [Back-formation from swashbuckler. action game based on the feature film. -- Finding Nemo, an adventure game based on the popular Disney and Pixar film. -- Mickey's Forget Me Not, a fast-paced memory game. -- Pooh's Hunny Blocks, a rich full-color matching and memory game. -- Movies.com's Popped Culture, a trivia game about all things pop culture. -- Axcess Mobile Web versions of ABCNews.com headlines and news reports, ESPN.com headlines and content, and FamilyFun.com content. Disney Mobile ringtones and graphics based on Disney's lineup of popular characters will launch later this year. "ALLTEL has a very large customer base and we're pleased to be make WDIG content available to them," said Larry Shapiro, executive vice president, business development and operations, WDIG. "New wireless content enabled by advanced handsets and ALLTEL's network really starts to show the breadth of wireless content and the resources and entertainment it can bring to mobile phone subscribers." Charges for downloads will appear on customers' monthly ALLTEL bill. The content can be previewed online at http://www.alltel.com/axcess and can be downloaded directly from Web site to customers' Axcess Apps-capable handsets. About Walt Disney Internet Group Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) provides strategic leadership and operational management for Disney's Internet affiliates including category leaders Disney.com, ESPN.com, and ABCNEWS.com. WDIG has led the way in developing new forms of interactive content, such as its Enhanced TV service which showcases the convergence of video and interactive programming, and is a market leader in developing and distributing entertainment and informational content to new platforms. Through relationships with some of the world's largest wireless carriers, WDIG distributes content and services to wireless users under the Disney, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. brands. Steve Wadsworth is president of WDIG, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., and has operations in Seattle, 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 , Orlando, Fla., Tokyo and London. |
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