Continental Cablevision's Website caputres the gold from on-line Internet guide.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997-- Website Wins a Gold Award from NetGuide Live The Website of Continental Cablevision, which manages the domestic cable properties of U S WEST Media Group, has received a Gold Award from NetGuide Live, a daily, on-line guide to the Internet's leading sites. "Continental is one of the first companies to offer Net access through cable wires rather than phone lines," NetGuide Live said. "We appreciate the well-written text, which even the most technophobic See technophobe. of us can understand. Other offerings here include interactive TV listings for the New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. area, which will tell you what's on What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour TV series that airs on Fairchild Television. Format Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. your local cable service for any given day. Plenty of other channels await at this enormous resource, including a guide to voting smart and a customer handbook. Thanks for giving us a great site to review." Continental's Website -- http://www.continental.com -- was among 50,000 sites reviewed for NetGuide Live's "Best of the Web" on-line catalogue. NetGuide Live is an offshoot of NetGuide Magazine. "Continental is proud to have earned this recognition. It reflects our commitment to use this great new medium to the benefit of our customers," said Ali Rubenstein, Continental's Web Master. Continental's Website came on line in November 1995 and was enhanced with upgraded functionality in August 1996. One of its most popular features is the Interactive TV Guide, which provides a search function allowing customers to access scheduling and descriptive information about their favorite TV shows, series, or movies. In addition to maintaining its active Web site, Continental has introduced high-speed Internet See broadband. access service in its Boston and Jacksonville markets. The service will soon become available in the company's service areas in suburban Detroit and will be introduced in Atlanta, Chicago, and 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. later this year. Continental Cablevision, a unit of U S WEST Media Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :UMG UMG Universal Music Group UMG Universidad Mariano Gálvez de Guatemala (Mariano Galvez University of Guatemala) UMG Upgraded Metallurgical Grade (silicon) UMG Unlicensed Medical Graduate ), is the nation's third largest broadband telecommunications provider, serving more than 4.8 million subscribers in 19 states. U S WEST Media Group is involved in domestic and international cable and telephony, wireless communications, and directory and information services See Information Systems. . For 1995, Media Group reported proportionate revenues of $5.1 billion. Media Group is one of two major groups that make up U S WEST, a company in the connections business, helping customers share information, entertainment and communications services in local markets nationwide. U S WEST's other major group, U S WEST Communications, provides telecommunications services in 14 western and midwestern states. NetGuide Live features powerful search tools, including the ability to explore the tens of millions ofpages of information on the World Wide Web. CONTACT: Continental Cablevision Dave Wood, (617) 854-3174 |
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