AirMedia Teams Up with GTE Retail Stores During GTE's Promotions Honoring NCAA March Madness.NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1997-- Global Village NewsCatcher wireless receiver for the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network demonstrated and sold in select GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) retail stores throughout the month AirMedia, Inc. announced today that it is teaming up with GTE to feature its award-winning, critically acclaimed AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network in select GTE Phone Mart(R) stores around the country. AirMedia Live and the NewsCatcher wireless receiver from Global Village Communication (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : GVIL) are being demonstrated in GTE stores in Dallas, Portland and Seattle, as part of "The GTE Ultimate Pickup Game" promotional activities for the NCAA's March Madness March Madness may refer to:
"The GTE Ultimate Pickup Game" is the result of GTE teaming up with four basketball legends -- Larry Bird Larry Joe Bird (born December 7,1956) is a retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest players of all time, and one of the best clutch performers in the history of sports. , Isiah Thomas For the boxer, see . Isiah Lord Thomas III (/aɪˈzeɪə/) (born April 30, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, and is currently the head coach and , Oscar Robertson Noun 1. Oscar Robertson - United States basketball guard (born in 1938) Oscar Palmer Robertson, Robertson and Jamaal Wilkes Jamaal Wilkes (born Jackson Keith Wilkes on May 2, 1953 in Berkeley, California) is an American former National Basketball Association player who played the small forward position and won four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors. for a Final Four promotion and contest. In addition, GTE will choose two grand prize winners for two to the Final Four games. To enter, fans may call a toll-free number or visit participating GTE Phone Mart stores. "Participating in GTE's high profile in-store promotions presents AirMedia with a great opportunity to educate a wide range of consumers about the features and benefits of the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network," said Don Cason, AirMedia's director of channel sales. "AirMedia Live is a perfect complement to GTE's online service offerings since it wirelessly delivers breaking news and information from the Internet and online services and also provides single-click access to the originating Internet or online source." GTE has transformed many of its Phone Mart stores into basketball courts to capture and convey the excitement of the NCAA's extremely popular "March Madness" championship college basketball tournament. AirMedia Live is wirelessly broadcasting the latest game scores and related news stories to Windows 95 PCs located throughout the stores in the selected markets, so customers can keep up with all the action in the fast-paced world of college hoops. AirMedia Live and NewsCatcher are now available at select GTE locations for a special promotional price of $99.00. AirMedia Live uses ground-breaking wireless broadcasting technologies in the exciting new category of "push" delivery for Internet content. AirMedia Live helps PC users stay on top of news stories from around the nation and the world by wirelessly delivering breaking information Hot off the Internet(TM) direct to desktop PCs so the user doesn't have to go online to search for it. AirMedia Live also wirelessly alerts users when they receive new E-Mail at their online service, Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) or mail manager of choice. AirMedia Live delivers wireless broadcasts of general and industry-specific news, weather reports, sports scores, entertainment information and interactive game challenges, stock market updates and E-Mail notifications 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, in real time, to PC users during all those hours when their modems are not connected. For PC users with a modem or Internet connection, AirMedia Live provides single-click access back to the full source on the Internet or online service. World-class Internet content providers in the AirMedia Live network include: America Online See AOL. , CompuServe, EarthLink, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive, Reuters, The Weather Channel, SportsLine USA, Quote.Com, LottoWorld Magazine, Freese-Notis Weather, MovieLink, COMTEX Information Service, Business Wire, PR Newswire  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Ziff-Davis Wire Highlights, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, The Sports Network, TravelGram and Yoyodyne Entertainment. GTE is one of the largest publicly held telecommunications companies in the world. GTE is also the largest U.S.-based local telephone company and a leading cellular service provider - with wireline and wireless operations that form a market area covering about one-third of the country's population. For more information, visit the GTE Web site at http://www.gte.com. AirMedia Live was awarded the prestigious Editors' Choice Award for push technologies by PC Magazine and was honored as a Premiere Product at InfoWorld's highly respected Demo '96 conference. It is also the 1996 Gold Medal winner of New Media Magazine's Invision Award for technical innovation and creative excellence in interactive multimedia, a CES Innovations '97 Award winner and was a finalist in the Software Publishers Association's (SPA) 1997 Codie Awards for best new software product of the year. AirMedia Live is a product of AirMedia, Inc., a leading provider of Internet software and services with offices in Newport Beach, CA 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 . AirMedia develops and markets products and broadcast services that merge computing and wireless communications technologies. The growing list of licensees for its AirMedia Live software, hardware and wireless network technologies includes communications and multimedia peripheral companies, PC and handheld manufacturers, and information providers. More information is available at http://www.airmedia.com. EDITORS NOTE: For information on AirMedia Live, your readers may visit the AirMedia Web site, http://www.airmedia.com, or call 1-800-AIR-MEDIA (1-800-247-6334). All trademarks and brand names are properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: AirMedia Inc. Sandra Sick, 714-737-5410 x251 sandras@exmachina.com or GTE Brian Blevins, 972-718-6920 or Technology Solutions, Inc. Patricia Mozzillo, 212-696-2000 x252 pmozzillo@tsipr.com |
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