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GoTV Appoints Elizabeth Brooks Senior Vice President of Marketing; Former Buy.com and Napster Executive Joins Leading Provider of On-Demand Mobile Television Services.


SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- GoTV (formerly 1KTV KTV Kleurentelevisie
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), the innovative, on-demand mobile television network, announced today that Elizabeth Brooks, former Senior Vice President, Business Development for Buy.com, has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Marketing. In this role, Brooks will manage the development of strategic relationships and lead all marketing initiatives and brand strategy for the company.

Brooks recently served as Senior Vice President, Business Development at Buy.com where she was responsible for content and revenue relationships across the Buy network of companies. Prior to this, Brooks headed North American North American

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 Music Publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. , the world's fourth largest music publisher. Brooks was also a founding management team member at the original Napster, Inc., where as Vice President, Marketing, she took the Napster brand from one million to over forty million registered users. Additionally, Brooks was a senior executive at Moviso, Inc., (now Infospace Mobile). She began her career as an A&R executive at Virgin Records and Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label .

"Liz's proven track record of building brands in entertainment makes her the perfect person to lead our marketing efforts as we take GoTV to the growing market of on-demand mobile television users," said David Bluhm, 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 GoTV. "We are very excited to have Liz join our leadership team."

"The newly rebranded GoTV is one of the most exciting companies in wireless, having already established a leadership position in the rapidly-developing mobile video space," said Brooks. "I am pleased to join this A-list management team and to take the company out to consumers on a widespread basis."

GoTV's on-demand television programming delivers, direct to the cellphone (CELLular telePHONE) The first ubiquitous wireless telephone. Originally analog, all new cellular systems are digital, which has enabled the cellphone to turn into a smartphone that has access to the Internet. , headline news, real-time sports scores, entertainment, music, and other rich audiovisual content from brands including ABC News
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, ABC Entertainment ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC that created in 1982. It produced shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, America's Funniest People, and H.E.L.P.. , FoxSports, and The Weather Channel, as well as original programming produced specifically for mobile phone users. GoTV is the only service that delivers on-demand real-time sports scores, stats, news, and game info to mobile phone users. GoTV is available on SprintPCS, Cingular, and Nextel and comes pre-loaded on Nextel's Motorola handsets.

About GoTV

GoTV (www.gotvnetworks.com) delivers instant, on-demand television programming direct to the mobile phone handset or wireless device, providing news, sports, music, entertainment and other essential content customized specifically for the mobile user. GoTV's staff of Emmy Award-winning producers and writers work with the company's best-of-breed media partners, including ABC News, Fox Sports, The Weather Channel, Variety, and others to create constantly updated programming optimized for both low-bandwidth and 3G handsets.

GoTV's custom applications are available on Sprint, AT&T/Cingular, and Nextel wireless networks. GoTV was developed by GoTV Networks (formerly VStar), a technology and content conversion company headquartered in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
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