ABCNEWS.com Reaches Agreement With PointMedia to Supply Content for PointTV Network.Business/Technology & Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2001 Number One Broadcast News Site to Provide Breaking News, Business and Entertainment Reports at the Gas Pump - An agreement between ABCNEWS.com and PointMedia will allow people to experience ABCNEWS.com's award winning text and video news content while at the gas pump. ABCNEWS.com, the 24-hour news service of ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. and part of the 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. Internet Group, will provide PointMedia's PointTV interactive broadcast network with text news updates, video entertainment and business reports. When PointTV customers visit the gas pump, they will see ABCNEWS.com's Hollywood Headlines, a daily video entertainment report produced and delivered digitally to PointTV, video business reports that will be produced weekly, and a text feed of the top news stories, constantly updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All ABC content played on the PointTV network will be identified with the ABCNEWS.com logo, and the Hollywood Headlines segment will lead off the majority of PointTV broadcasts. PointMedia Corp., which launched its interactive broadcast network for gas pumps last week, provides news, entertainment, online product purchasing and point-of-purchase promotional incentives to retail gasoline customers via color monitors adjacent to the pump. "This content distribution agreement with PointMedia enables ABCNEWS.com to further expand its award-winning coverage and introduce it to a large new audience," said Bernard Gershon, senior vice president and general manager of ABCNEWS.com. "The PointTV network provides a unique channel opportunity for brand extension to retail gasoline customers, and it's consistent with ABCNEWS.com's continued efforts to offer our comprehensive content to as many people as possible." "The ABC content that will be delivered through PointTV provides daily breaking news on movies and their stars, musicians, television personalities and other celebrities, as well as headlines from around the globe," said Seamus Carroll, PointMedia's vice president of sales and marketing. "Breaking news stories and entertainment news is a large and very attractive part of the many features that PointTV brings to customers at the pump. We are delighted to welcome ABCNEWS.com to our roster of content providers that already includes ScreamingMedia, SportsTicker, AccuWeather and Bloomberg - all of which help consumers on the go use time already spent pumping gas Pumping GAS was a two-hour programming block on the Nickelodeon spin-off network, Nick GAS. "Pumping GAS" was commercial-free, with only a thirty-second "pit stop" every now and then. to stay informed and be entertained with PointTV." PointTV's additional content offerings, which can be personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. by consumers on the www.point.tv Web site, include stock quotes, financial news, sports scores, horoscopes and more. - About ABC Internet Group - ABCNEWS.com is one of three business units of ABC Internet Group, which is part of the ABC Television ABC Television may refer to:
Disney, Walter Elias Disney Company. AIG AIG addressee indicator group (US DoD) AIG American International Group, Inc AiG Answers in Genesis (religious group in defense of Scripture) AIG Artificial Intelligence Group AIG Australian Industry Group develops and manages ABC.com, the leading broadcast network Web site; ABCNEWS.com, one of the leading news sites; 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 , the ultimate interactive experience; and Oscar.com, the official Web site for the Academy Awards produced in conjunction with ABC.com and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AIG works closely with The 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. , which provides integrated strategic leadership and operational management across the Internet businesses of The Walt Disney Company. Dick Glover oversees the ABC Internet Group, which has operations in Burbank, Calif., 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 , N.Y. - About PointMedia - PointMedia, based in Cold Spring, N.Y., provides outdoor point-of-sale two-way interactive video kiosks for gas pumps. The technology, PointTV(TM), consists of television-like screens attached to the pump that play individually targeted news, sports, weather and other content along with advertising, couponing cou·pon·ing n. The sending out or turning in of coupons, especially the regular redemption of a manufacturer's coupon for cash. and product spots which allow the consumer to quickly and easily purchase items while pumping self-service gasoline. PointMedia installs and maintains the screens and server systems, and manages content at no cost to the station owner. In return, the station owner receives a percentage of the gross revenue received by PointMedia. For more information on PointTV, please call 845-265-9100 or visit the Web site at www.pointmedia.tv. |
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