CollectingChannel Launches With Exclusive, Live Webcast At Atlantique City.NORFOLK, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1998-- ChannelSpace's New CollectingChannel Kicks Off With Live Updates from Colossal 12-Mile-Long Event ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. (CSEI CSEI China Special Equipment Inspection (and Research Center) ), a provider of affinity portals and original niche-based programming for Internet content aggregators, today announced an exclusive, live webcast of Atlantique City, the largest indoor antique and collectibles market 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. . This announcement comes on the heels of the launch of the CollectingChannel (www.collectingchannel.com), CSEI's first affinity portal. Show highlights will be broadcast direct from the12 mile-long exhibition area at the Atlantic City Convention Center The Atlantic City Convention Center is located in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Center was developed in part as an aspect of the city's ongoing attempt to recreate itself as a year-round destination rather than a mere summer resort — the same thought process that in Atlantic City, New Jersey “Atlantic City” redirects here. For other uses, see Atlantic City (disambiguation). Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA. Famous for its boardwalk and casino gambling, it is a resort community located on Absecon Island on the coast of the , October 17-18. "It's fitting that the biggest, grandest collection of collecting content ever amassed in the history of the Web, begins with the biggest, grandest collecting show ever assembled under one roof," said Barry Friedman, co-founder and president of ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. Atlantique City is an annual extravaganza featuring over 1,600 dealers from 45 states, plus Canada, Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , Europe, Australia and Asia, showcasing collecting items from over 1,100 categories. Universally regarded as the collecting show, categories include: country and formal furniture, Americana, folk art folk art, the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. , ephemera e·phem·er·a n. A plural of ephemeron. ephemera Noun, pl items designed to last only for a short time, such as programmes or posters Noun 1. , toys, dolls, advertising, coin-operated machines, trains, clocks, bronzes, paintings, silver, teddy bears, rugs, soda fountains, Orientalia o·ri·en·ta·li·a or O·ri·en·ta·li·a pl.n. Things, especially decorative objects, produced in or associated with eastern Asia. , primitives, quilts, coins, vintage clothing Vintage clothing is a term for garments hailing from another era. Generally speaking, clothing older than 25 years is considered to be vintage, though opinions vary on this definition. , decoys, pewter, depression and pressed glass, crystal, fifties, comics, lamps, slot machines, tools, bottles, stamps, jewelry, stoneware stoneware, hard pottery made from siliceous paste, fired at high temperature to vitrify (make glassy) the body. Stoneware is heavier and more opaque than porcelain and differs from terra-cotta in being nonporous and nonabsorbent. , pottery, banks, games, books, music boxes, art deco, world's fair, prints, breweriana, post cards, pinball machines, miniatures, posters, Disney, porcelain, china, cameras, movies, circus and carnival, autographs, kitchen, nautical, radios, telephones, brass, sports, railroad, political, Coca Cola, automobilia, paperweights, jukeboxes and carousel figures. "This is a great opportunity for collectors everywhere -- who won't be at the show -- to join in the fun. CollectingChannel viewers will get a glimpse of behind-the-scenes action and interviews with expert appraisers, see what's new and hot, and share in the latest show news and information," said Steve Sanford, co-founder and 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. of ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. "We'll be right there on the floor, sharing the Atlantique City experience with a worldwide audience of collectors." The CollectingChannel reflects the dual passions of its creators, Friedman and Sanford. Together the two have built an affinity portal that leaves no Barbie, Hummel hummel entire, naturally polled deer. or Lladro unturned in the pursuit of the most thorough collecting content imaginable. Through a series of strategic technology and content partnerships, the CollectingChannel delivers the most collecting-related subject matter available online. To bring this unprecedented aggregation of information, the CollectingChannel has partnered with top, name-brand content providers including Landmark Specialty Publications and Amos Press. Landmark, as lead content provider, brings information from its successful series of magazines and price guides geared toward antiques, toys, sports, trading cards, militaria mil·i·tar·i·a pl.n. Objects, such as weapons and uniforms, that are connected with warfare or military service and are usually collected for their historical interest. and records, plus the popular online Collector's Super Mall. Amos Press, a leader in publications focusing on coins, stamps, collector cars and pre-paid debit cards, offers content from the premier coin and stamp collecting magazines, Coin World and Linn's Stamp News Linn's Stamp News is the largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors, boasting a paid circulation of nearly 45,000 (as of 2003). It is published by Amos Press, who also publish the Scott stamp catalogs. . ChannelSpace original programming and segments from popular shows and videos such as PBS' Collecting Across America and Collecting with the Kovels: American Art Pottery, I and II, also combine to bring in-depth, entertaining and informative broadcasting. Agents Technologies Corp., offers the "brain" behind this staggering amount of content with a Copernic 98 Collecting Edition of its award-winning intelligent search agent. The Copernic 98 Collecting Edition lets visitors query a myriad of collecting sites, from Friends of the CollectingChannel, to receive and select fresh, constantly updated information that is automatically ranked by importance to the user. In addition, CSEI has an exclusive agreement with broadcast.com (Nasdaq:BCST BCST Broadcast BCST Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology BCST Battle Command and Staff Training BCST Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist ), the leading aggregator and broadcaster of streaming media programming on the Web, to launch a "Collecting" channel on the broadcast.com Web site, located at http://www.broadcast.com/specialinterest/collecting/. Per the agreement, ChannelSpace has co-branded a site with broadcast.com to host 15 hours per day of streaming audio and video collecting-related programming. The above sources and more, result in the Web's most complete window on the world of collecting. For more information on sources of CollectingChannel content, visit the Friends of the CollectingChannel fact link at: www.collectingchannel.com/factsheet.html. About CollectingChannel CollectingChannel (www.collectingchannel.com), CSEI's first affinity portal, offers the most complete aggregation of collecting-related content ever available in the history of the Web. As it continues to add more content and programming, the CollectingChannel will deliver the Web's most complete, up-to-the-minute, original audio/video programming, chat, auctions, books, price guides, expert opinions, software, links, magazines, live video conferencing, news, articles and community catering to any and every conceivable collectible category. About ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. (www.channelspace.com), is a provider of affinity portals and original niche-based programming for Internet content aggregators. This groundbreaking model addresses the question: how do you reach more eyeballs? CSEI's cableTV-like model creates opportunities to leverage and package its own high-level audio/video assets as well as that of existing content providers to increase overall market strength and visibility. The CSEI goal is to be a platform-independent source of enhanced, customized channels to content aggregators of all media forms. CSEI's distributed technology engine enables the Company to launch new channels at a rapid pace. |
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