A/V DailyNews Calls for Entries for 1st Annual SAV Awards
Panelists to Select Top Fifteen Streaming Audio Video Sites
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1998-- A/V DailyNews, the Internet's first audio video portal specializing in delivering business, sports, health and entertainment news in streaming audio and video, announced the first annual SAV(tm) Awards.
The SAV Awards will select the Top 15 sites on the Internet which make compelling use of RealAudio or RealVideo. Streaming audio and video is the technology pioneered by RealNetworks which enables users to view music video clips or listen to interviews in audio, or even watch full-length movies instantaneously over the Internet.
Industry experts believe that streaming media will be a multi-billion dollar industry in the very near future. Due to certain inherent infrastructure characteristics, Internet programming companies are able to profitably create entertainment that from the outset, can be designed to reach an audience which may only number in the thousands.
By contrast, television programming often needs to reach an audience ranging into the millions - and even then could still be an unprofitable venture, as witnessed by the recent cancellation of the ''Magic Hour'' starring Magic Johnson which averaged 2 million viewers.
The winners will be chosen by 15 panelists from the entertainment and new media industries and will be chosen based upon criteria personal to each panelist. The winners will be announced in conjunction with the launch of the A/V DailyNews website on Sept. 9, 1998.
Donna Murdoch, vice president of A/V DailyNews stated, ''We decided not to categorize the awards inasmuch as five of the best sites could easily come from the Music industry and we truly wanted this to be the cream of the crop. With over 300,000 sites offering streaming media, we wanted to give everyone an equal chance.''
To enter your web site for consideration please send an e-mail briefly describing the site and its URL to Lisa Gurcsik at A/V DailyNews (SAVAwards@avnewswire.com). Submissions will be accepted until Aug. 31, 1998.
ABOUT A/V DAILYNEWS
A/V DailyNews, which fully supports RealPlayer, is a division of Dynamic Imaging Systems Corp. (OTC BB: DIMG), a firm which specializes in advanced multi-media for the Internet via A/V Newswire, A/V TradeShow, the Artichoke Group, Internet Analytics, WebTemps and the company's flagship site.
The A/V DailyNews website will be launched on September 9th and hosted on the Real Broadcast Network, a service offered by RealNetworks and MCI, the leading Internet backbone provider and one of the architects of the Internet.
A/V DailyNews is the Internet's first audio video portal specializing in delivering business, sports, health and entertainment news in streaming audio and video. A/V DailyNews will aggregate audio and video news from many of the leading news providers in the country in an easy to digest format.
A/V DailyNews will additionally be producing its own original and leading-edge content for the site which can be viewed using RealPlayer.
Send your submission to Lisa Gurcsik at SAVAwards@avnewswire.com
A/V DailyNews 2000 Hamilton St. Suite 596 Philadelphia, PA 19130
NOTE: SAV Awards is a trademark of Dynamic Imaging Systems Corp.
Contact:
A/V DailyNews
Lisa Gurcsik, 215/981-1016
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