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ZONE 4 PLAY SURPASSES GROWTH EXPECTATIONS.

Zone 4 Play, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
: ZFPI), Wilmington, Delaware, a developer of interactive software and technology for the gaming industry, has announced that the growth and profitability achieved on the Winner Channel has materially surpassed its projections. Zone 4 Play serves as the sole technology partner of the Winner Channel, UK's first cable interactive TV fixed-odds gaming service and is entitled to 45% of the net revenues realized by the channel.

Commenting on the success of The Winner Channel, Shimon Citron citron (sĭt`rən), name for a tree (Citrus medica) of the family Rutaceae (orange family), and for its fruit, the earliest of the citrus fruits to be introduced to Europe from Asia. , 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 Zone 4 Play, said:

"We are delighted with the progress the Winner Channel is making in terms of subscriber numbers and gaming revenues. Over the past quarter the actual deposits have grown at a compound monthly rate of over 40%. The growth rates Growth Rates

The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures.

Notes:
Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future.
 realized to date in the UK support the industry projection that interactive television betting will reach $3.8bn in Western Europe in 2007. As a market leader in the interactive TV gaming sector, Zone 4 Play is poised to participate in this exciting growth opportunity in a material way."

Launched in Mid 2005, the Winner Channel is available to approximately 2.5 million subscribers through the interactive services of UK's cable companies Telewest & NTL NTL Nevertheless
NTL National Transportation Library
NTL Norsk Tjenestemannslag
NTL National Training Laboratories
NTL Never Too Late
NTL Nothing to Lose
NTL National Training Laboratory
NTL None the Less
NTL Number Theory Library
. The Winner Channel is also affiliated with Channel 4 (the second largest commercial broadcaster in the UK) and Flextech Television (one of the largest cable and satellite broadcasters in the UK). Viewers of these channels can access the Winner Channel directly via the `red button'. As at the end of October 2005 the channel had 15,000 registered users. The Winner Channel has announced its plans to launch an Internet site and a java download mobile betting proposition to accompany the interactive TV service before the end of the calendar year.

About Zone4Play

Zone4Play delivers cross-platform solutions that are built for mass participation gaming. Zone 4 Play is a software and technology provider to UK bookmakers, online gaming operators, betting exchanges and to US cable, satellite and hospitality service providers, delivering online solutions, mobile solutions, interactive TV solutions and participating SMS-TV solutions. For more information, visit http://www.Zone4Play.com.

About the Winner Channel

The Winner Channel, the only fixed odds gaming channels available in the UK to cable TV subscribers, is a partnership between Zone4Play and Two Way Media Ltd ("TWM twm - Tab Window Manager.

A window manager for the X Window System. Twm provides titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings.
"), an interactive TV and mobile-to-TV product and service provider. Under the partnership agreement TWM operates the channel and Zone4Play provides the underlying gaming technology for all of the "instant win" fixed odds games, including Roulette, Slots, Hi-Lo, Keno and Dice.

About Two Way Media

Two Way Media offers broadcasters, program-makers and DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression.  networks the widest range of interactive TV and mobile to TV products and services available in the world. From award-winning creative and pre-production services through to interactive software solutions, Two Way TV's clients and partners include the biggest interactive broadcasters today.

For more information, visit http://www.twowaytv.com.

Successes include designing and building many of ITV's flagship services; Test The Nation (where 26% joined in via their remote), Antiques Roadshow. More recently, Two Way TV helped ITV (1) See interactive TV.

(2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV).
 go interactive on cable TV for the first time with "X Factor"' and "This Morning." It has built enhanced services for the `BBC BBC
 in full British Broadcasting Corp.

Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927.
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See also
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, Big Brother 2, 3, 4,5 & 6 and quiz show 15 to 1, Sky Sports' Beat The Pundits and numerous formats for Flextech Television, Cartoon Network, YooplayTV and others.

Its widely-deployed Ark(TM) system enables viewers to join in live with their favorite programs. They can answer questions, cast votes or predict what's about to happen on-screen on·screen or on-screen  
adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
. In the UK Ark has been licensed to the BBC, Sky Sports, Channel 4, Flextech, Turner, Discovery, MTV MTV
 in full Music Television

U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business.
, Ascent Media, NTL, Telewest Broadband and many others.

Two Way Media also has its own games channel carrying its own games and branded games from major names like the Lover's Guide. It also runs, in association with Zone4Play, the Winner Channel and the Roulette Channel - UK Cable's only fixed odds soft gaming service. Two Way TV's games are distributed by broadcasters and networks worldwide and are now available in over 11 million homes.

For more information, visit http://www.zone4play.com.
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