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Amp'd Mobile Introduces World's Most Extensive Mobile Programming Experience for 18 to 35 Year Olds; Procter & Gamble Ad Deployment Complements Largest Mobile Programming Experience Offered for 18 to 35 Year Old Audiences Worldwide.


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.  -- Amp'd Mobile Amp'd Mobile was a mobile phone service launched in the United States in late 2005. The company was a Mobile Virtual Network Operator and operated on the Verizon Wireless CDMA EV-DO network. Its primary non-Venture Capital investors were MTV Networks and Universal Music Group. , America's leading mobile entertainment provider, today announced six new content services:

--Live Game College Football Season Pass

--27 Linear Channel Amp'd TV Lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime.

--Procter & Gamble First Commercial Deployment of Ad-Supported Video Content

--Amp'd Original Presentations

--Amp'd Mobile Music EP Series & Live Studio Sessions

Amp'd Mobile College Football Season Pass

For college football fans, Amp'd announces its College Football Season Pass featuring live college football games simulcast in their entirety The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to Husband and Wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety.  initially with select games from CSTV's game package, as well as previews, re-caps and school-specific programming throughout the 2006 season. The new service debuted Saturday, September 9th highlighted by Colorado State's nail-biter over Colorado in the Rocky Mountain Showdown The Rocky Mountain Showdown is an annual American football college rivalry between the University of Colorado Buffaloes and the Colorado State University Rams. The winner of the game receives the Centennial Cup.  at Invesco Field and continues throughout the college football season with top match-ups such as the Red Raiders Red Raiders can refer to sports teams at:
  • Barnstable High School in Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA
  • Ocean City High School in Ocean City, New Jersey, USA
  • Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, USA
  • Wauwatosa East High School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
 of Texas Tech vs. TCU (Transmission Control Unit) A communications control unit controlled by the computer that does not execute internally stored programs. Contrast with front end processor, which executes its own instructions.  and Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame  vs. Air Force.

Amp'd Mobile was the first to regularly broadcast sporting events in their entirety live to mobile phones with its UFC UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship
UFC Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazilian University)
UFC Unified Facilities Criteria
UFC Uniform Fire Code
UFC Uniform Freight Classification
UFC United Facilities Criteria
UFC USACE Finance Center
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 Surfbout, and Pro Bull Riding events.

Upcoming line-ups can be viewed in the Sports channel Sports channels are television specialty channels (usually available exclusively through cable and satellite) broadcast sporting events, usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming.  at www.ampdlive.com.

Amp'd TV Grows to 27 Channels

Amp'd Mobile announces 17 new channels to Amp'd TV, its industry-leading linear mobile television service programmed specifically for 18 to 35 year old audiences. Amp'd TV and Amp'd Overdose overdose /over·dose/ (o´ver-dos?)
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, Amp'd Mobile's Video On-Demand service, together feature over 75 channels and 300+ top network shows targeting the demographic.

Headlining the new additions, Oxygen and Style join WE to provide a broad array of programming targeted specifically to women. FUEL and Speed networks make their debut, further expanding the sports lineup on Amp'd.

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 a broad array of core 18 to 35 programming offered only on Amp'd TV and it's our goal to continue launching unique linear services and industry firsts such as our live sports and original programming packages," said Seth Cummings, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please)
SVP Senior Vice President
SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party)
SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
SVP Social Venture Partners
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, Content Development & Programming, Amp'd Mobile. "We're committed to continue working with forward-thinking broadcasters and innovative content providers to develop pioneering mobile-specific programming for our digital savvy customers."

Below is a list of the Amp'd TV linear line up with sample featured programming, which will roll out in its entirety early this fall:
Best of Amp'd          Amp'd Celebrity News    World's Best Music
 Swing Shift, Lil Bush, Hollywood revealed with Videos
 Z-List, Hot Dish, AMA  breaking celebrity      International Music
 Supercross, PBR        news, paparazzi reports Feed programs the
                        and more                World's Best Music
                                                Videos
----------------------------------------------------------------------
MTV                    mtvU                    Comedy Central
 Punk'd, Laguna Beach,  Fresh Produce, The      Mind of Mencia, Reno
 The Hills, Pimp my     Freshmen, Meet or       911, The Daily Show,
 Ride, Yo Momma, Making Delete, The Dean's      Colbert Report, Blue
 the Band, Viva La Bam, List, Stand In, Campus  Collar Comedy
 Cribs                  Invasion
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NBC Fall Preview       FOX News                VH1
 Channel                The O'Reilly Factor,    Surreal Life, Meet the
 Studio 60, Friday      Hannity & Colmes, Fox   Hogans, NoTORIous,
 Night Lights, Heroes,  News Live Weekend,      Flavor of Love
 30 Rock, Kidnapped     Dayside, Cashin' In,
                        Your World with Neil
                        Cavuto
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FOX Sports             Speed                   FUEL
 Best Damn Sports Show  Car Craziest, Nova's    BBQ with Skaters,
 Period, CMI: Interview Muscle, Strip           Swollen Members, Falla
                        Challenge, AMA          Fix, Corey Hits Home,
                        Supercross Highlights,  Desert Skating, Street
                        Drifting Hotties        Machine
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WE                     Style.                  Oxygen
 Daddy's Spoiled Little Clean House, Fashion    Campus Ladies, Fight
 Girl, Full Frontal     Essential, Whose        Girls, Girls Behaving
 Fashion, Style Me with Wedding Is It Anyway?   Badly, The Isaac
 Rachel Hunter, Single  Fashion Police, Modern  Mizrahi Show, Kids
 in the City,           Girl's Guide to Life    Behaving Badly,
 Bridezillas's                                  Mo'Nique's Fat Chance
                                                1 and 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------
SPIKE                  Break TV                E!
 The Ultimate Fighter,  Best video from         E! News, The Answer
 Blade, The Dudesons,   Break.com, new every    Bitch, Us Weekly Hot
 TNA Wrestling          week!                   Stuff, The Soup,
                                                Hollywood Rap-Up
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A&E                    Biography               Discovery
 Inked, Criss Angel     Hollywood's 10 Best,    MythBusters, Top 5
 Mind Freak, Dog The    Famous, Biography, Dead Animal Takedowns,
 Bounty Hunter, Driving Famous, Psychic         Everything You Need to
 Force, Rollergirls,    Investigators, Crime    Know.., Wild Trax,
 Family Jewels          Stories                 Dirty Jobs, Deadliest
                                                Catch,  Extreme
                                                Engineering
----------------------------------------------------------------------
MAXIM TV               CMT                     History Channel
 Hometown Hotties,      CMT Insider, CMT        The Revolution,
 Hollywood parties,     Uncorked, CMT News,     Digging, Mega
 celebrity interviews,  Studio 330              Disasters, Mega
 and more                                       Movers, Mysteries,
                                                American Eats
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Playboy TV             Girls Gone Wild TV      Logo
 Playboy brings the     24/7 Girls Gone Wild.   U.S. of Ant, CBS News
 best of its wildly                             on Logo, Noah's Ark,
 popular Playboy TV                             GLADD Awards
 channel to mobile with
 Amp'd this fall.
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Mobile Advertising First

With data ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average.  (Average Revenue Per User) sustaining at over four times the industry average and growing, Amp'd introduces another industry first with the commercial deployment of highly targeted video advertising within its Overdose VOD See video-on-demand.

VoD - video on demand
 and Amp'd TV offerings. This advertising was initially deployed within its Amp'd Original Programming on-demand programs and A&E, Biography, The History Channel, Best of Amp'd, Break TV and College Football Season Pass linear channels. In cooperation with Rhythm NewMedia, a leading advertising innovator, Procter & Gamble's Herbal Essences Herbal Essences is a brand of shampoo, hair conditioner, and hair coloring products initially designed to appeal to holistic and natural products shoppers but eventually targeted almost exclusively at women, created by Clairol and subsequently owned by Procter & Gamble.  will offer mobile-specific advertising to Amp'd Mobile subscribers. The deployment will expand throughout the Amp'd content offering in 2007 and enable Amp'd customers to receive unique and attractive pricing offers and discounts.

"It's important to offer advertising that is meaningful to our audience in a non-invasive way," said Cummings. "Amp'd will offer leading advertisers, such as Procter & Gamble, an opportunity to target a highly concentrated 18-35 target audience who frequent the multiple tier-one networks and programming on our leading 3G network. Also, part of our advertising deployment is the introduction of NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
 to Amp'd TV. Our new NBC Fall Preview Channel offers unique and highly entertaining vignettes of their fall 2006 line up."

Amp'd Original Presentations

Since the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) A reseller of wireless services. MVNOs do not own licensed spectrum and typically do not have any of their own wireless network infrastructure.  launched last December, Amp'd has rolled out several Amp'd Original Presentations, including Swing Shift, The Z List, Hot Dish, and Venice Beach. On September 1st, 2006, Amp'd debuted the first episode of Lil Bush: Resident of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Lil Bush was created by "The Simpsons," "Just Shoot Me" and "Late Night with David Letterman Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993 after Letterman left NBC when he moved to Late Show on CBS. " producer/writer Donick Cary Donick Cary is an American television writer for The Simpsons. He has also written for Just Shoot Me! and Complete Savages.

He is the creator, writer, and director of Lil' Bush
. The series follows the adventures of Lil' Bush Lil' Bush is a satirical, politically-themed animated comedy show featuring caricaturized versions of the current world leaders. Created by Donick Cary, initially as content for Amp'd Mobile, it has aired on Comedy Central since June 13, 2007. , Lil' Cheney, Lil' Condi, and Lil' Rummy rummy, card game played by two to six players with a standard deck. The cards usually rank from king down through ace. Seven cards are dealt to each player in the three- or four-hand game, one card is turned up on the table, and the remaining cards are left face down . They have been described as the Lil' Rascals with access to the A-Bomb. New episodes of Lil' Bush debut every Friday only on Amp'd. Amp'd will also debut several additional new original presentations before the end of the year.

Sample Amp'd Original Presentations include:
Lil Bush               Swing Shift             The Z List
 With his gang of White Host KC Armstrong, of   Follow along Nevada's
 House Lil' Cronies,    the Howard Stern Show,  most desolate highways
 this Resident of the   rolls his limo along    and check in on the
 United States can't    the streets of          cover bands who've
 help but get into      America's hottest       populated the most
 trouble.               cities.                 sketchiest casinos and
                                                hotels the U.S. has to
                                                offer.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hot Dish               Bush: Stinky or Sweet   Roshan Daily News
 Playboy Playmate       America sounds off on   Breaking daily news
 Cynthia Lee shows      President George W.     read by an Indian
 collegiate gourmets    Bush. Pro or con.       computer programmer,
 how to make culinary                           with weather reports
 delights.                                      from an ardent German
                                                and on-location
                                                reports from a
                                                Japanese lover of
                                                Karaoke.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Venice Beach           America's Greatest Fan  What The F-ck America
 Witness top talent     Join in on Amp'd        Micro documentaries
 along Venice Beach's   Mobile's nationwide     exploring subjects
 famous boulevard.      search for the greatest such as why the
                        sports fan known to     Katrina disaster and
                        man.                    victims are off the
                                                public radar and why
                                                gas prices are really
                                                so high and no one is
                                                doing anything about
                                                it.
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Live Studio Sessions/Mobile EP Series and Bundled Mobile Music Packs

Amp'd Mobile also announces another industry first -- the Amp'd Mobile EP Series -- which packages and features never-released music tracks and video footage from a wide variety of artists from major and independent record labels. The Amp'd Mobile EPs consist of bundled content including live full length tracks, ringtones, interviews and wallpaper wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made , all recorded live from the Amp'd in-house production studio.

"The Amp'd Mobile EP Series takes our mobile music content offerings to a whole new level by combining an integrated shopping experience with live, unique content from a wide range of artists that appeal to our customer base," said Larry Mattera, SVP of Music, Amp'd Mobile. "With live recordings captured directly from the Amp'd Mobile Recording & Production Studio, our Mobile EP Series enables users to have a deeper experience with a broader selection of mobile content from the artists they love."

Amp'd is also launching Mobile Music Packs which enable users to buy original recordings of full tracks, ringtones and videos in discounted bundled packages. A 2-pack bundle will contain a ringtone The audible sound made by a telephone to announce that a call is coming in. The traditional ringtone was in the 440-480 Hz range, but as cellphone usage grew, it became obvious that ringtone differentiation would become important.  and a full-length track of the same recording and a 3-pack will include a full-length track, ringtone and a video of the same recording, available for purchase on their mobile handset The part of the telephone that contains the speaker and the microphone. On a desktop phone, the part you hold in your hand is the handset. On a cellphone, the entire phone is the handset. See multihandset cordless and headset.  in one integrated shopping experience.

About Amp'd Mobile

Amp'd Mobile is the first integrated mobile entertainment company for youth, young professionals and early adopters, and the only 3G carrier in the US specifically targeting that demographic. By leveraging the power of broadband wireless See wireless broadband.  (EVDO), Amp'd Mobile offers traditional services such as voice and text within a completely fresh user interface designed specifically for the "mobile graduate" and third-generation (3G) technology. With a myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity.

The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds.
 of customizable options to meet each person's individual needs, as well as strategic alliances with top entertainment properties, such as MTVN and Universal Music Group, Amp'd Mobile brings a more relevant, personal experience to the wireless lifestyle with unique music, video, community, entertainment, sports and gaming offerings divided into various channels for quick and easy access. Amp'd Mobile is offered nationwide and more information can be found at www.ampd.com.
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