On the Scene Productions to Provide Exclusive Content to FasTV.com; Relationship Enhances Editorial Reach of News Projects and Provides Additional Value to Clients.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1999-- On The Scene Productions (OTSP OTSP On The Same Page ) Thursday announced that it has entered into an exclusive content agreement with FasTV.com, the Internet's first searchable video destination for consumers, business and media. OTSP will begin delivering client video news footage to FasTV.com, effective immediately. In addition to an exclusive arrangement for literary content, the agreement with FasTV offers OTSP clients yet another, valuable opportunity to showcase all video footage. As an added benefit, OTSP's clients and their target audiences will be able to search and retrieve video footage easily and in a controlled environment. "We regard our agreement with FasTV as yet another value-added benefit that we can offer our clients," said Sally Jewett, president, OTSP. "We promote news on behalf of our clients and are always on the lookout for in search of; looking for. See also: Lookout innovative opportunities that will expand the reach of our clients' messages," finished Jewett. "Our focus is searchable video. We provide our content partners, like OTSP, an effective way to extend their video assets onto the Internet, creating an incremental exposure, branding and traffic opportunity," said William Swegles, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , FasTV Inc. "FasTV.com has created a new outlet that gives viewers control, allowing them to see in five minutes what might have required hours of traditional media viewing," he added. How It Works OTSP will provide FasTV.com with video footage produced for client video news releases, satellite media tours, electronic press kits, webcasting events and other news conferences. The agreement enables OTSP to display a co-branded identity button with OTSP's and/or its clients' logos. FasTV.com users will be able to hotlink hotlink - A mechanism for sharing data between two application programs where changes to the data made by one application appear instantly in the other's copy. Under System 7 on the Macintosh the users establishes a hotlink by doing a "Create Publisher" on the server and from OTSP-provided video footage, displayed at www.fastv.com, back to OTSP's Web site at www.onthescene.com. About On the Scene On the Scene Productions, a leader in electronic communications, was founded in 1984 by President Sally Jewett and Executive Vice President Stacie Hunt. The company was launched with an expertise in the motion picture industry and as a pioneer in the concept of electronic press kits. Today, OTSP is a rapidly growing, privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. that employs more than 30 people in four offices including 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. , Chicago, Nashville and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . OTSP's expertise has expanded to include publishing, music, healthcare, and consumer products, automotive and hi-tech. Products and services offered by the electronic communications company include: video news releases, satellite press conferences, electronic press kits, radio tours, webcasting, corporate conferencing, video conferencing, corporate videos and media training. About FasTV FasTV.com is the first Internet site where consumers and business viewers can search for and see current and archived video clips 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 30 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, New Line Cinema, the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase and the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. . Use of FasTV.com's Internet programming service is free to viewers. Privately-held, FasTV Inc. has headquarters in Los Angeles. The company has pioneered the growth of Internet broadcasting and searchable video since 1996. |
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