CBS' Eyemark Entertainment Renews Third Season of Most Watched Internet Entertainment TV Series, GT Interactive's "Wild Wild Web".NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1999-- Compaq Added as Major "Wild Wild Web" Sponsor with $6 Million Commitment, Joining Visa, CD-Now and Web TV OneZero Media (OZM), a unit of GT Interactive Software Corp. (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 : GTIS GTIS Government Telecommunications and Informatics Services (Canada) GTIS Global Trade Information Services GTIS GOES Tap Imaging System GTIS Government Technical Information Services (Canada) ), today announced that Eyemark Entertainment, the national syndication company of CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Corp., will distribute its Wild Wild Web television series for a third consecutive season. OneZero Media also announced that Compaq Computer Corp. has signed on as a major show sponsor with a $6 million commitment, joining sponsors including Visa, CD-Now and Web TV. "Wild Wild Web is the first television series to bring the Internet to life in an entertaining way that is relevant to the everyday lives of real people. We saw the show's potential from the start, have seen its significant growth, and believe this season will be its breakthrough year," said Robb Dalton, Sr. Vice President of Business and Program Development, Eyemark Entertainment. Wild Wild Web is a 30-minute weekly entertainment series about the Internet, airing in 148 markets, representing more than 88% of the U.S. It is produced by OneZero Media, which was acquired by GT Interactive in November 1998. It is national TV's leading Internet-themed program, available to 85 million U.S. households and watched by 2 million people. Alan Chebot, president of TV programming for OneZero Media, said, "Wild Wild Web makes it fun for people to discover and experience today's Internet pop culture without getting bogged down in technology. Eyemark Entertainment shares our vision of bringing the power of the Internet to people through quality TV programming. We are thrilled to grow our partnership with them for a third groundbreaking season." GT Interactive Chairman Ron Chaimowitz said, "We acquired OneZero Media because it is an Internet company with a unique entertainment TV show and portal Web site that complements our properties, which include popular games, Web sites, Boneyards Boneyards was the massive online server created for the Total Annihilation series of computer games by Cavedog Entertainment, allowing thousands of players to compete in organised battle over the internet. online gaming See gaming. community, e-commerce and more. This enables us to create cross-media business and marketing opportunities for our partners that are tailored to consumers' interests." Launched in September 1997, Wild Wild Web is about what's cool on the Web, not about technology, providing viewers with a tour of new, exciting sites and services from around the globe. In-studio guests and feature stories have ranged from Aerosmith, to where to find the best skydiving skydiving Sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate altitude (e.g., 6,000 ft [1,800 m]) and executing various body maneuvers before pulling the rip cord of a parachute. Competitive events include jumping for style, landing with accuracy, and performing in teams (e.g. resources online, to Starbright, a foundation which creates projects that empower seriously ill A patient is seriously ill when his or her illness is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern but there is no imminent danger to life. See also very seriously ill. children to combat the medical and emotional challenges that they face. The Wild Wild Web television series is a vehicle that directs viewers to a "vertical" entertainment portal Web site, www.getwild.com, to enjoy an expanded entertainment experience, and creates enhanced marketing opportunities for retailers. The Web site provides information about segments in the television series as well as additional broad entertainment categories including music, movies, games, travel, fashion and event coverage. Many viewers access the Web site either during or immediately following the show. Getwild.com also serves as the Entertainment Zone of the popular search engine AltaVista, which is accessed by 18 million users monthly. For advertisers, GT Interactive's ownership of a television series, a specialized entertainment portal, highly trafficked Web sites and interactive games creates cross-media network advertising opportunities. About GT Interactive Headquartered in 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 , with 1997 revenues of $531 million, GT Interactive Software Corp. is a leading global cross-media entertainment company which develops, markets, merchandises and distributes game software; creates e-commerce, electronic storefront leasing, advertising and content licensing opportunities on the Internet; and produces television programs. Via its OneZero Media subsidiary, GT operates a specialized entertainment portal, getwild.com, which acts as the Entertainment Zone on AltaVista; and produces the nationally syndicated television program, Wild Wild Web. The company has eight internal development studios: Humongous Entertainment, Cavedog Entertainment Cavedog Entertainment, or Cavedog, was a computer game developer based in Bothell, Washington. Cavedog released the real-time strategy games Total Annihilation; its two expansion packs ( and Battle Tactics); and , and its expansion pack , SingleTrac, WizardWorks, Oddworld, Bootprint Entertainment, Legend Entertainment Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games. The company was founded in 1989 by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu after the end of Infocom. Their goal was to design interactive fiction in the Infocom tradition. and Reflections. The company also has four software labels: GT Interactive, CompuWorks, MacSoft and Slash. About Eyemark Entertainment Eyemark Entertainment produces, distributes and markets programming for U.S. syndication. In addition to Wild Wild Web, its slate includes The Dr. Joy Browne Show, a new daily single topic talk show hosted by the popular radio personality; Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts. , which made its debut as an hour series in January 1999; the new weekly hour drama Peter Benchley's Amazon; The Howard Stern Radio Show; the returning weekly action hours Pensacola: Wings of Gold and Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal paranormal, adj 1. outside the realm of normal experience or scientific explanation. n 2. collective term for anomalous phenomena. ; the weekly half-hours The George Michael Sports Machine and Bob Vila's Home Again, and the off-network series Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2005. It is one of the most critically acclaimed American sitcoms of its time. and Caroline in the City Caroline in the City is an American sitcom that ran from September 21, 1995, to May 11, 1999, on the NBC television network. Premise Caroline Duffy is a cartoonist living in a Manhattan loft. . About OZM OneZero Media was founded in 1996 to create programming that extends the entertainment value of both television and the Internet, by combining their strengths. Its first set of products contains the Eyemark Entertainment TV series Wild Wild Web and the companion Web site, getwild.com. The company is located in Newton, Massachusetts. |
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