Digital Island Announces Relationship With FOXSports.com to Provide Live Daily SuperBowl XXXIV Webcasts.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000 Webcasts Include Live 30-Minute Halftime Show A halftime show is a performance given between the first and second halves or the 2nd and 3rd quarters of a sporting event. Halftime shows are not given for sports with an irregular or indeterminate number of divisions (such as baseball or boxing), or for sports that don't stop. Streamed Exclusively Through Apple's QuickTime TV Digital Island, Inc. (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 :ISLD ISLD International Society for Lasers in Dentistry ISLD Island ECN, Inc. (stock symbol) ), a leading global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today that it will provide satellite downlink and acquisition of the live video signal, in addition to encoding that live signal in the QuickTime4 format, to FOXSports.com's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ) coverage throughout Super Bowl XXXIV Super Bowl XXXIV was the 34th championship game of the modern National Football League (NFL). The game was played on January 30, 2000, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, following the 1999 regular season. week of live daily Webcasts and halftime show. The Webcasts, which will be streamed exclusively through Apple's QuickTime TV Network, begin today at 3:00 PM EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy and run through Friday. The live 15-minute Webcasts and 30-minute halftime show will feature FOX Sports personalities delivering updates, analysis and a rundown of all the major news from Super Bowl XXXIV. The Webcasts can be seen on FOXSports.com and www.apple.com/quicktime. To watch the Webcasts viewers simply need to download the QuickTime player The media player software that comes with QuickTime for the Mac and Windows. See QuickTime. for Macintosh(TM) and Windows(TM) at www.apple.com/quicktime. &uot;The team at Digital Island will work to make sure that fans have the best possible experience for this breakthrough Webcast programming, which contributes to FOXSports.com's leadership sports coverage,&uot; said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman 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 Digital Island. &uot;FOXSports.com is excited to have Digital Island and Apple assisting us in delivering unprecedented and live Webcasts to football fans around the world,&uot; said Danny Greenberg, senior vice president, FOXSports.com. Digital Island(R) is a leading global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services See ASP and Web services. for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 23 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to 6,200 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net. Important Notice Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filing on Form S-1. |
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