Avail-TVN Goes Long with NFL Network Deal.NFLN NFLN National Front for the Liberation Selects Avail-TVN to be Long-term Industry-wide VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand Provider 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. -- Avail-TVN[TM], the largest independent digital media services company in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , today completed an agreement with NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Network (NFLN) that will extend the scope of their relationship. The agreement expands NFLN's use of Avail-TVN's services to the entire industry, including delivery to an additional 17 million VOD enabled homes, and incorporates advanced asset and metadata management services. Avail-TVN will continue to be NFLN's primary provider of video on demand services with continued support of their highly time-sensitive games and additional VOD packages. Football fans can see their favorite NFL team battle it out on the gridiron and watch the great touchdown catches and key defensive stands on demand within 24 hours of the game's completion. In addition, subscribers have access to game highlights from previous weeks, coaches' commentary and a wide library of content. "NFL fans want more football and greater access to their favorite teams," said Anna Petitti, Department Head, Affiliate Partnership Group of NFL Network. "Avail-TVN is the industry leader and by partnering with them we are confident that fans will have faster access than ever before to their favorite team's game highlights and other NFL content." Subscribers have access to a wide variety of NFL content including: [TABLE OMITTED] "VOD has become a vital tool for distributing sports entertainment Sports entertainment is a type of of entertainment that takes the form of a sporting event, but with more emphasis on dramatic storylines, humor, spectacle or titillation than on a contest of athletic skills. and changing the aspect of game viewing itself," said Jim Riley Jim Riley is a former defensive end from the University of Oklahoma who played Pro Football for the American Football League's Miami Dolphins, and later for the Dolphins in the NFL, for a total of five seasons. He started in Super Bowl VI. , Chief Revenue Officer of Avail-TVN. "NFLN is a leader in the industry when it comes to advanced asset management and our partnership ensures that Avail-TVN will continue to be the main provider for managing their VOD offering." NFLE NFLE National Football League Europe utilizes Avail-TVN's award winning ADONISS Asset Management platform that houses all of the content and the Programmer Remote Interface (PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. ) that allows each provider to remotely manage their content. About Avail-TVN Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel Using two or more paths for transmission or processing. It can refer to a variety of architectures including (1) multiple I/O channels between the CPU and peripheral devices, (2) multiple wires in a cable, (3) multiple "logical" channels within a single wire or fiber or (4) multiple video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. For more information about TVN's and Avail's products and services, please visit www.avail-tvn.com. About NFL Network NFL Network airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day on a year-round basis and is the only television network fully dedicated to the NFL and the sport of football. NFL Network gives fans unprecedented access to all NFL events, including the Super Bowl, Playoffs, regular season, preseason, Pro Bowl, Pro Football Hall of Fame induction weekend, NFL Draft, Scouting Combine, Senior Bowl, Insight Bowl, league meetings minicamps and training camps. For more information, log onto www.nfl.com/nflnetwork. NFL.com is the exclusive internet home of NFL Network. |
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