WaveTop Launches Home PC Broadcast Network to Top 50 U.S. Markets;
Expands to Entire U.S. Over Next Few Months
PR Newswire - March 30, 1998 09:44
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High-Speed Ad-Supported Service Delivers Live Multimedia Content and Internet
Programming for Free to U.S. Households Using Nation's
Public Television System
WHAT: WaveTop launches Home PC Broadcast Service to Top 50 markets --
covering two-thirds of the U.S. -- while expanding to entire
country over the next few months. The service overcomes the
bandwidth limitations of the Internet by delivering six channels of
multimedia-rich Web content using the vertical blanking interval
(VBI) in cable and broadcast television signals.
An entirely new mode of distributing and receiving entertainment,
news and information, the free, ad-supported service, when fully
launched, will reach 99 percent of all U.S. households using the
signals of 264 television stations in the PBS network.
WaveTop's high-speed service is backed by a coalition of nearly 50
leading digital media, computer, and software companies. In
addition, Microsoft will include WaveTop data broadcast software in
its Windows 98 operating system, giving users who have PCs equipped
with TV tuner boards the ability to receive Internet content
without incurring access costs or tying up telephone lines.
WaveTop is a consumer service of WavePhore, Inc. (Nasdaq: WAVO).
WaveTop content providers are among the world's leading media
companies including Time Inc. New Media, which includes the on-line
versions of: People, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Money, Fortune,
Sports Illustrated for Kids and ZDNet which includes ZDNet News and
the on-line versions of ComputerLife, Family PC and Yahoo Internet
Life. Also providing content are USA TODAY, The Wall Street
Journal Interactive Edition, CBS SportsLine, PBS ONLINE, Quote.com,
The Weather Channel, N2K's Music Boulevard, Barnes and Noble.com,
Universal Press Syndicate -- Comics, Women's Wire and Prevention's
Healthy Ideas, ParentTime, SuperMarkets Online and NECX.
WHEN: Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 9, 1998
WHERE: National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 98 Convention -
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sands Expo Center, Level One, Hall G, Booth Number I11523
(Across from the Internet.Theater@NAB98)
WHO: Demo of WaveTop Service and Interviews with:
Sandy Goldman, Senior VP/GM, WaveTop
Patrick Gilbert, Senior VP/CTO, WaveTop
CONTACT: For more information or to schedule an interview please contact:
Bernadette Callahan, Senior Associate of Neale-May & Partners,
at (650) 328-5555 x120 or E-mail callahan@nealemay.com.
WaveTop Broadcast Cities
(Effective April 6, 1998)
DMA Rank PBS Station City State
1 WNET-13 New York City NY
2 KCET-28 Los Angeles CA
3 WTTW-11 Chicago IL
4 WHYY-12 Philadelphia PA
5 KQED-9 San Francisco CA
6 WGBH-2 Boston MA
7 WETA-26 Washington DC
8 KERA-13 Dallas TX
9 WTVS-56 Detroit MI
10 WGTV-8 Atlanta GE
11 KUHT-8 Houston TX
12 KCTS-9 Seattle WA
13 WVIZ-25 Cleveland OH
14 KTCI-17 Minneapolis MN
15 WEDU-3 Tampa FL
16 WPBT-2 Miami FL
17 KAET-8 Phoenix AZ
18 KRMA-6 Denver CO
19 WQED-13 Pittsburgh PA
20 KVIE-6 Sacramento CA
21 KETC-9 St. Louis MO
22 WMFE-24 Orlando FL
23 WMPB-67 Baltimore MD
24 KOPB-10 Portland OR
25 WFYI-20 Indianapolis IN
26 KPBS-15 San Diego CA
27 WEDH-24 Hartford CT
28 WUNG-58 Charlotte NC
29 WUNC-4 Raleigh-Durham NC
30 WCET-48 Cincinnati OH
31 WMVS-10 Milwaukee WI
32 KCPT19 Kansas City KA
33 WDCN-8 Nashville TN
34 WOSU-34 Columbus OH
35 WRET-49 Spartanburg SC
36 KUED-7 Salt Lake City UT
37 WGVU-35 Grand Rapids MI
38 KLRN-9 San Antonio TX
39 WNED-17 Buffalo NY
40 WHRO-15 Norfolk VA
41 WYES-12 New Orleans LA
42 WKNO-10 Memphis TN
43 KETA-13 Oklahoma City OK
44 WXEL-42 West Palm Beach FL
45 WITF-33 Harrisburg PA
46 WUNL-26 Winston-Salem NC
47 WSBE-36 Providence RI
48 KNME-5 Albuquerque NM
49 WVIA-44 Scranton PA
50 WKPC-15 Louisville KY
64 KLVX-10 Las Vegas NM
SOURCE Wavephore, Inc.
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