FasTV.com Partners With eFootage to Showcase Historic Newsreels Online.Business Editors NATPE NATPE National Association of Television Programming Executives 2000 (Booth #2465) NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2000 History Buffs Will Have Web Access to Extensive Archive of Classic News Clips Featuring the Biggest Events of the Last Century FasTV.com, revolutionary Internet broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems), or IBS, is a provider of television station web sites. IBS hosts over 70 local stations' sites, and co-produced NBCOlympics. site that provides searchable television news and information on demand, and eFootage today announced that they have established a new relationship that will give Web surfers searchable, online access to classic newsreel footage from the past century. Consumers will be able to quickly search for and watch video of the events that shaped and defined this past century. Visitors to the FasTV.com site, at www.fastv.com, and the eFootage Web site, at www.efootage.com, will be able to search for footage using keywords and view streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. clips of specific events, people or places. The eFootage archive includes materials from Universal, Fox Movietone News, Warner and Pathe Newsreels. &uot;This relationship will provide students and history buffs from around the world a chance to relive re·live v. re·lived, re·liv·ing, re·lives v.tr. To undergo or experience again, especially in the imagination. v.intr. To live again. some of the most important and memorable moments in human history,&uot; said Chuck Ball, FasTV.com Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. &uot;FasTV.com's search technology is ideally suited to help companies like eFootage add value to an already great product.&uot; &uot;The quality of any film library is measured not only by the types of the footage it contains but also by how easily the consumer can access its content. We have always had a unique offering in our newsreel archive and now all of that information will be even more valuable thanks to FasTV.com and its video search technology,&uot; said Paul Lisy, President of eFootage. About eFootage eFootage, http://www.efootage.com, was created by Budget Films, one of the most respected archives and stock footage sources in the world, to provide online users a simple, fast and effective way to locate, preview and order all types of images on the Web. eFootage currently provides both contemporary and vintage footage to a wide array of clients, including motion picture and television studio, production companies, ad agencies, corporate clients and documentary filmmakers. eFootage currently has offices in 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. and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. (c/o Streamline Films). About FasTV FasTV.com is the first Internet site where consumers and business viewers can search for and see current and archived video clips A short video presentation. and associated closed caption text from leading TV and video programming. FasTV.com delivers searchable video in news, sports, business, entertainment and lifestyle and has signed agreements with more than 100 content partners including CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , CNNfn, Bloomberg, Reuters, and the PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. of America. Use of FasTV.com's Internet programming service is free to viewers. Privately held, FasTV, Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles. The company has pioneered the growth of Internet broadcasting and searchable video since 1996. |
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