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Notre Dame Goes Mobile with Westwood One Radio And uVuMobile(TM).


Westwood One Westwood One, Inc. (NYSE: WON) is the largest radio network in the United States based on programming quantity. It is based in the city of New York, and it is managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation. History
The company was founded by Norman J.
, America's Largest Radio Network, Will Leverage uVuRadio's[TM] Mobilecasting[TM] Platform to Launch Mobile Notre Dame College
For other universities and colleges named "Notre Dame", see Notre Dame#Educational institutions.


Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio is a Catholic coeducational career-focused liberal arts college.
 Football Broadcasts

ATLANTA & ORLANDO, Fla. -- smarTVideo[TM] Technologies, Inc. d/b/a uVuMobile(TM) (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
:SMVD) has announced an exclusive partnership with America's largest radio network, Westwood One (NYSE NYSE

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:WON), to launch mobile broadcasts of one of college football's most historic franchises, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame . The Company has also reached an exclusive agreement to distribute Westwood One's "The Dennis Miller Dennis Miller (born November 3, 1953) is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, political commentator, television personality, and talk radio host. He rose to fame as a cast member of Saturday Night Live  Show" via mobile phones. Both programs will leverage uVuMobile's[TM] ground-breaking Mobilecasting[TM] platform that combines live audio broadcasts with unprecedented interactive features.

"In sportscasting, as in all of radio, it's all about creating that ultimate listener experience and Mobilecasting[TM] takes that experience to the next level," said Gary Krantz Krantz is the name of two persons:
  • Kermit E Krantz Physician and inventor
  • Grover Krantz Bigfoot researcher
, Chief Digital Media Officer at Westwood One. "It's the perfect platform and fits in with our strategy to extend some of our biggest radio programs to the millions of mobile phone owners in the U.S. and incorporate a level of fan interaction that has never before been accomplished on a mobile phone."

Westwood One's Notre Dame College game day broadcasts will launch with a series of interactive features that are proprietary to uVuMobile's[TM] Mobilecasting(TM) platform to engage fans unlike ever before. This includes live Westwood One audio broadcasts of the actual games, visual images and a social networking See social networking site.

social networking - social network
 chat feature. The chat feature provides mobile listeners the opportunity to post comments, opinions and directly interact with hosts, guests and other listeners. Mobilecasting[TM] also offers visual and audio advertising opportunities including pre-rolls, interstitials, banners, sponsorships and interactive advertising.

"Bringing interactive radio programming to a consumer's mobile phone has been considered by many companies. However, uVuMobile[TM] is the first to begin distributing revenue producing, top national programming to consumers in this way," said Tony Novia, Senior Vice President of Content and Programming for uVuMobile[TM].

"It is an honor to partner with Westwood One, a network providing over 150 programs to more than 5,000 radio stations around the world, to bring such prestigious programs as Notre Dame College Football broadcasts to mobile," added Dave Ross
For other people sometimes known as Dave Ross, see David Ross.


Dave Ross (born April 5 1952 in Yorktown, New York) is a popular liberal talk show host on Seattle's KIRO-AM 710 radio station, with whom he had been a news anchor since 1978,
, President and Chief Executive Officer of uVuMobile.[TM] "This deal validates not only the Mobilecasting[TM] platform, but our overall strategy of building out the Company with innovative platforms that we believe will help transform the wireless industry, generate immediate subscribers and generate additional revenue streams for our Company."

The Mobilecasting[TM] platform is currently being showcased at the CTIA (1) See CompTIA.

(2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry.
 Wireless Convention in Orlando, FL, March 27-29 at the uVuMobile[TM] Booth, located in the M-tertainment Pavilion, POD X.

About smarTVideo[TM] Technologies, Inc. d/b/a uVuMobile(TM)

In implementing its vision for doing business in the mobile marketplace, the Company plans to offer entertainment brands, carriers, developers, aggregators, distribution partners and other players in the mobile value chain, a full suite of products and platforms including backend media hosting, application development, mobile marketing, messaging, content aggregation, billing, advertising and other services directed towards the mobile business-to-business market.

Capitalizing on the ever-increasing demand by consumers for personalized and interactive entertainment, the Company also enables consumers to obtain their entertainment and media anywhere, anytime to select media-enabled devices with the smarTVideo[TM] subscription service. For additional information, please visit http://www.uVuMobile.com or http://www.smartvideo.com.

About Westwood One

Westwood One (NYSE: WON), the country's leading provider of audio content and programming, provides over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events. Through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks/Shadow Broadcast Services, Westwood One provides local content to the radio and TV industries including news, sports, weather, traffic, video news services and other information. SmartRoute Systems manages traffic information centers for state and local departments of transportation, and markets traffic and travel content to wireless, Internet, in-vehicle navigation systems and voice portal An interactive voice response (IVR) front end to a data retrieval system. This does not differ in core technology from traditional IVR; rather, the difference is in the application presented. Where old-style IVR was mostly a routing application (press 1 for sales, 2 for service, etc.  customers. Westwood One serves more than 5,000 radio stations and is managed by CBS Radio
This article is about the radio group, for the radio network see CBS Radio Network.
CBS Radio Inc., formerly known as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation
. For more information visit www.westwoodone.com.
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