Baywatch Chooses Net Talk for Beach Chat.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000 Baywatch.com (www.baywatch.com), the online community for the Baywatch television series, and Net Talk (www.nettalk.com), the global leader in animated voice communication, announced today a partnership in which Net Talk will supply Baywatch with "Beach Chat", voice over IP software, on the Baywatch web site. Baywatch.com is the place for fans to experience Baywatch seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. In addition to being the official online source for Baywatch and the Baywatch Hawaii television programs, the site transports the viewer to the sand, the sea and the sun and allows them to become an active member of a worldwide community of beautiful people. "Net Talk is a creative, fun and easy way for the millions of Baywatch viewers to interact," said Allen Kalman, Executive Producer at Pearson Television. This licensing agreement, between Net Talk and Baywatch, will allow the worldwide audience of Baywatch fans to "Beach Chat" with each other using their own voice, represented by an animated character, all within a visual Baywatch environment. "We are thrilled to have been chosen to be a part of such an exciting and popular web site as Baywatch," said Net Talk CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Steven Tover. "Pearson Television, the owners of the Baywatch television series, have shown a vision for creating a dynamic flow from TV to the web. This is just the beginning of what the future holds for Net Talk and the entertainment industry." About Pearson Television Pearson Television is Britain's only truly global television producer, with over 160 programs currently in production in 35 countries around the world. Baywatch Hawaii, The Price is Right, Family Feud This article is about the American game show. For other versions, see Family Feud around the world. For rivalries between families, see Feud. Family Feud and To Tell the Truth are a few of the programs currently in production. Until this year Pearson Television has been a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Pearson plc, the international media group that owns, among other things, the Financial Times, Penguin Books and Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. . It has now been merged with CLT-UFA, Europe's largest television and radio company, to form a new company called RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; Group, with Pearson Television as its production and content arm. For more information on Baywatch.com, please contact Cynthia Wang at 212-541-2857 or via email at: cynthia.wang@us.pearsontv.com About Net Talk, Inc. Net Talk, Inc. is dedicated to the goal of integrating animated voice communication with leading Internet technologies for the benefit of business and commercial enterprises. Products are purposely pur·pose·ly adv. With specific purpose. purposely Adverb on purpose USAGE: See at purposeful. Adv. 1. designed for ease of use among the broadest spectrum of current and potential Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f . Net Talk, Inc. brings to the market a keen awareness of the Internet user experience, a broader vision of what the Internet can be and a thorough understanding of the technologies required to achieve its goals. Some of Net Talk's key clients include GEO subsidiary WebRadio, SalesMountain.com and InfoStreet. Headquartered in 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. , Net Talk also has offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , with research and development facilities in Ra'anana, Israel. For more information on Net Talk, please contact Rachell Bitton at 1-877-238-0307 extension 20 or via email at: Rachell@nettalk.com. |
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