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ZDTV and Communities.com Team to Launch 'The ZDTV Palace,' Offering Online Visual Chat for TV and Web Fans
Viewers Can Access Visual Chat, Netcam Network, Streaming Audio and Video
SAN FRANCISCO and CUPERTINO, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ZDTV, a unit of Ziff-Davis (NYSE: ZD - news), and Communities.com, publishers of The Palace visual chat software, today announced a new service on the ZDTV.com Web site that places The Palace visual chat at the center of the ZDTV viewer experience online. Hosted by ZDNet, a leading source of online technology content, the ZDTV Palace combines innovative visual chat with the channel's netcam network, and streaming audio and video capabilities into a next-generation community center for ZDTV's on-air and online audience.
''ZDTV.com is where TV meets the Internet, and The ZDTV Palace allows us to integrate these two mediums even further,'' said Greg Drebin, Senior Vice President of Programming and Production for ZDTV. ''Many television shows claim to be 'interactive,' because they maintain a Web page and host an occasional chat. ZDTV.com goes way beyond that -- we actually drive Web visitors from our site to our cable television channel. The ZDTV Palace provides a fun, completely new way for us to connect our online audience, while maintaining the visual nature of television.''
Visitors to The ZDTV Palace assume graphical screen personalities and communicate with comic book-style speech balloons. They can move from room to room in The ZDTV Palace environment and use body language, sound, and conversation to express themselves. ZDTV.com integrates The Palace chat with ZDTV's existing webcasts and the Netcam Network, which includes live streaming audio and video feeds from audience submitted ''vmails.''
''ZDTV is known for its innovative approach to viewer interactivity,'' said Bryan Kerr, Communities.com Vice President of Sales and Marketing. ''By adding a visual element to its interactive features, The Palace is a natural extension to the ZDTV.com Web site. On average, The Palace users spend more than three hours per month in visual chat environments. We plan to work closely with ZDNet and ZDTV to expand the options for interactivity and convergence in all forms of media.''
ZDTV is a 24-hour cable television channel about computers, technology, and the Internet. The channel appeals to a wide range of viewers from the computer novice to the technology expert. Produced in its own digital state-of-the-art studios in San Francisco, ZDTV's programming ranges from daily industry news to insightful features on emerging technologies. Specific shows include Internet Tonight, The Money Machine, ZDTV News, Call For Help, GameSpot TV, The Screen Savers, Fresh Gear, Big Thinkers, Computer Shopper, and Silicon Spin. As an integrated Web site to ZDTV, ZDTV.com enhances the television channel by providing dynamic, interactive programming that invites audience participation through the Internet. ZDTV, an affiliate of Ziff-Davis, is one-third owned by Vulcan Ventures.
About Ziff-Davis Inc.
Ziff-Davis Inc. is a leading integrated media and marketing company focused on computing and Internet-related technology, with principal platforms in print publishing, trade shows and conferences, online content, television, market research and education. Ziff-Davis provides global technology companies with marketing strategies for reaching key decision-makers. Following the recent initial public offering of a new series of common stock intended to track the performance of its Internet business ZDNet (NYSE: ZDZ - news), the existing common stock of Ziff-Davis Inc. became a series of common stock (NYSE: ZD - news) intended to track the performance of the ZD Group, which includes print publishing, trade shows and conferences, education, market research and television businesses and an 84% retained interest in ZDNet.
About Communities.com
Communities.com, formerly Electric Communities, is the leader in online rich media communities. The company brings entertaining chat and interactive communication experiences to Internet users around the globe and furnishes its partners with tools to create and grow compelling online communities. Communities.com publishes The Palace visual chat software and OnLive! multi-voice chat technology. ThePalace.com is the hub for the world's fastest-growing network of rich media visual communities. Hundreds of thousands of people meet, interact, work, play and learn at all hours through a global network of The Palace sites. With OnLive! software, Communities.com offers powerful multi-voice chat and online conferencing. From rock groups to media and cable companies, from universities to multi-national corporations, Communities.com and its partners supply their customers with the most compelling visual and voice chat communities on the Internet. Partners include Comedy Central, SciFi Channel, Flirt.com, KoRn, TCI.net and the Association of Internet Professionals. The company is located in Cupertino, Calif.
The Palace is a registered trademark, and OnLive!, OnLive! Traveler, OnLive! Talker, OnLive! Conference Server, OnLive! Community Server, OnLive! Technologies and Communities.com are trademarks of Communities.com. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Communities.com
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