Catalog 1 announces test venues for 1995.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 1995--Consistent with its repositioning as an interactive-driven upscale catalog shopping mall, Catalog 1, a joint venture between Time Warner Entertainment and Spiegel Inc. today announced it is developing a World Wide Web site on the Internet. Like Catalog 1's television home shopping, the web site shopping service will be based on Catalog 1's roster of upscale catalog companies: Spiegel, Eddie Bauer, The Sharper Image, Crate & Barrel, Williams-Sonoma, The Nature Company, The Bombay Company, Neiman Marcus, Time Warner Viewer's Edge, and Book-of-the-Month Club. The web site is scheduled to be operational in early spring. In addition, Catalog 1 announced that it is currently in production on full motion TV programming to augment its interactive TV application on Time Warner's Full Service Network from the current six catalogs to a full complement of 10. By yearend, Catalog 1 will be offering more than 1,000 products for sale on the FSN (Full-Service Network) A communications network that provides shopping, movies on demand and access to databases and a variety of interactive services. . The Full Service Network was successfully introduced in the Orlando, Fla. cable TV market on Dec. 14, 1994, with Catalog 1 programming offered as part of a constellation of interactive shopping services. Finally, Catalog 1 announced an agreement with WLIG-TV 55 for its television home shopping programs to be carried Saturday mornings in the metropolitan 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 television market. WLIG WLIG With Little Information Given , which reaches approximately three million homes in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, will carry Catalog I programming from 10 am to 12 noon (EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy ) on Saturdays beginning March 11. Production has already begun on new programs for WLIG. Catalog 1 TV programming will continue to be distributed in a similar Saturday morning format in the San Francisco market, by Bay TV, a cable service owned by KRON-TV. Other market tests conducted over the past year will either be consolidated into the Saturday morning format or phased out in the first quarter. Rod Parker, general manager of Catalog 1, said: "As we begin our second year at Catalog 1, our goal continues to be to distinguish ourselves as the premier content provider of upscale catalog shopping programming. Our multi-platform test approach this year is designed to yield the information that positions us to take best advantage of the interactive and analog distribution roll-out potentials of the future." Spiegel Inc. is a leading multi-channel specialty retailer, marketing fashionable apparel and home furnishings to customers through catalogs and more than 370 specialty retail stores. Spiegel's other businesses include Eddie Bauer, Eddie Bauer Home, AKA Eddie Bauer, Newport News, JRT JRT Jack Russell Terrier JRT Jumbo Roll Tissue (bathroom tissue) JRT Justin Randall Timberlake (member of NSYNC) JRT Joint Readiness Training JRT Jugoslovenska Radio-Televizija , E STYLE, and For You from Spiegel. Spiegel's Class A non-voting common stock trades on the 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 National Market System under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors : SPGLA. Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP's principal operations are Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., Home Box Office, and Six Flags Theme Parks. Its partners include Time Warner Inc., US WEST, Toshiba, and ITOCHU. Time Warner Cable is the nation's second largest cable TV operator, currently serving more than 7.3 million customers in 33 states. CONTACT: Catalog 1 Marilyn Harris, 212/206-6464 |
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