Coverage of Democratic and Republican Conventions Airing Live on Mobile Phones via MobiTV.14 Week Programming Available on ABC News Now ABC News Now is a 24 hour broadband news channel offered via television and streaming video at ABCNews.com and on mobile phones. It delivers breaking news, headline news each half hour, and wide range of entertainment and lifestyle programs. , MobiTV Channel 05, Week of July 26 through week of November 2, 2004 WHAT: MobiTV, the only television network for mobile phone users, will carry 14 weeks of news programming featuring Peter Jennings' anchored coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions on ABC News Now, MobiTV channel 05. This will be the first time mobile phone users can watch live political convention news while on the move. WHEN: All times are Eastern Standard Time. 9:20 - 10:00 a.m.: "ABC News Now" will air original business programming along with convention reviews. 1:00 - 1:30 p.m.: "Politics LIVE", a live daily political newscast reporting the most interesting political developments of the day. 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Convention coverage drawing from ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. correspondents on the scene and various live guests, including delegates and elected officials. 7:00 p.m.: "Speaker's Corner", an interactive "pre-game" program featuring newsmaker news·mak·er n. One that is newsworthy. guests and political analysts co-anchored by Sam Donaldson Samuel Andrew Donaldson (born March 11, 1934 in El Paso, Texas) is a reporter and news anchor for ABC News, anchoring the Sunday edition of World News Tonight from its inception in January 1979 through the 1990s. and Hari Sreenivasan, airing daily during the conventions Plus, "ABC News Now" live prime time coverage anchored by Peter Jennings and the expert team of ABC News anchors and correspondents. 3:00 a.m.: Extended replay of convention highlights with political reports and interviews drawn from ABC News programming that aired earlier in the day. WHERE: MobiTV, developed by Idetic, Inc. and launched in November 2003, is a Java download available on Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. Vision(SM) Phones. Convention coverage is available on ABC News Now, MobiTV channel 05 on select Java-enabled Sprint PCS Vision Phones. HOW: For $9.99 per month, Sprint PCS Vision subscribers can enjoy ABC News Now, MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. , Discovery Channel, College Sports Television, The Learning Channel, NBC News, FOX Sports and Comedy Time. For further information or to subscribe to MobiTV, visit a Sprint Store, call 510-981-1303 or log on to www.mobitv.com. About MobiTV MobiTV is the first and only Global Television Network targeting the 1.2 billion mobile phone users worldwide. MobiTV offers many popular TV channels: NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, The Discovery Channel, TLC TLC total lung capacity; thin-layer chromatography. TLC abbr. 1. thin-layer chromatography 2. , ABC News Now, FOX Sports, College Sports TV, MLB.com, Vegas Sports, California Music Channel, Comedy Time, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , Discovery Kids, ToonWorld TV Classics and Discovery en Espanol. The service delivers live television programming in real-time over existing cellular networks. MobiTV is compatible with most Java- or BREW-enabled mobile phones. Viewers do not need additional equipment beyond a subscription to MobiTV and their carrier's data package. MobiTV is a registered trademark of Idetic, Inc. All other trademarks, tradenames, service marks, service names and images mentioned and/or used herein belong to their respective owners. About Idetic Idetic, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Berkeley, CA. Founded in November 1999, Idetic, Inc. is a leading developer of wireless media delivery services and technologies. Idetic's technologies improve the performance of today's wireless data infrastructure, and lay the foundation for next-generation services that support the richer media viewable on tomorrow's handsets. Idetic leveraged its new technology platforms to develop MobiTV, a Global Television Network that delivers live TV to mobile phones. For more information about Idetic, please visit www.idetic.com. |
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