Comedy Central Celebrates the Cartman Chronicles with New Techno-Tainment from GDA Digital Media.WILMINGTON, Del.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 25, 1999-- Wilmington, Delaware's Techno-tainment Shop Helps Comedy Central's Entertainment Content Stick to the Web GDA GDA Grupo de Diarios de América (Spanish) GDA Global Development Alliance (USAID) GDA Guideline Daily Amount GDA Georgia Dental Association GDA Greenwich Dance Agency (England) Digital Media Inc. (www.gdadm.com) continues to expand the "South Park" experience with the debut of "Cartman Vs. Evil Cartman," the latest in a series of web-based games based on Comedy Central's hit animated series. The launch represents the fifth South Park game and the eighth online game overall that GDA Digital Media has developed for Comedy Central (www.comedycentral.com) since teaming with the cable network in August 1997. "This represents the latest example of GDA's web-based `techno-tainment' designed to augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: the existing programming on Comedy Central," said Lee Mikles, GDA Digital Media vice president of marketing. "We have worked closely with Comedy Central for the last year and a half to create a unique user experience that reinforces their programming to their web-based audience." Designed to promote the Cartman Chronicles, which airs throughout the month of March, Cartman vs. Evil Cartman also represents a stepping stone to the new South Park episodes, which debut in April. "GDA has helped Comedy Central create memorable online experiences by combining the network's comedy resources with web technologies," said Larry Lieberman, Comedy Central vice president of special projects and new business development. "Our goal at comedycentral.com is to present original humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was based on our most popular shows, and to build an online community that appreciates and anxiously anticipates each new production. The web programming developed by GDA and Comedy Central contribute to our success." "Web-based entertainment is a meteoric me·te·or·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or formed by a meteoroid. 2. Of or relating to the earth's atmosphere. 3. trend," Mikles said, "and GDA Digital Media intends to play a significant role in developing the digital flypaper, or `sticky content (World-Wide Web) sticky content - World-Wide Web pages that refer only or mostly to pages on the same website. This is important to some commercial sites who want users to keep accessing pages from their site because they receive advertising income from each hit. ,' for the next-gen broadcasters to both attract and retain their audiences." In addition to Cartman vs. Evil Cartman, GDA Digital Media and Comedy Central have partnered for such award-winning content as Cartman: The Game (Top 5% J.A.R.S. Award and Gamelan gamelan Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. .com's "What's Cool Java Award"), Jimbo's Shooting Gallery shooting gallery Substance abuse A place–eg, an abandoned building in an economically-depressed urban area–ie, a ghetto, where IV drug users congregate, purchase, inject–'shoot' heroin, cocaine, oxycodone or other drug. (SXSW SXSW South By Southwest, Inc. (Texas music festival) Interactive Festival Best Gaming Site) and Comedy Central's Cable and Satellite Affiliate Relations Website (1997 Summit Creative Award for "Best Business-to-Business" web site.) GDA Digital Media and Comedy Central are also two-time winners of Macromedia's "Shocked Site A Web site that contains animations created in Macromedia Director. Users need the Shockwave plug-in for their browser in order to view the files. of the Day" award for "South Park Shoot 'Em Up" and "Who the Hell Said That." ABOUT COMEDY CENTRAL Comedy Central is the only all-comedy network and is currently available in more than 53 million homes nationwide. Comedy Central, a registered trademark of Comedy Partners, is a 50-50 joint venture of Time Warner Entertainment Company and Viacom. Comedy Central's Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. is http://www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute archival press information and photographs, visit Comedy Central's press-only web site at www.press.comedycentral.com (User name: comedy; password: press). ABOUT GDA DIGITAL MEDIA GDA Digital Media Inc. is Delaware's largest interactive digital marketing agency specializing in innovative design and leading-edge technologies to communicate client messages. GDA offers unique, customized solutions that maximize the client's ability to deliver memorable, motivational product and corporate image information to diverse audiences. GDA Digital Media Inc. is a member of the GDA Family of Companies, an integrated group of businesses offering a full range of strategic, creative communications services to the entertainment, business-to-business and health care industries. |
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