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Technology Stocks : IATV-ACTV Digital Convergence Software-HyperTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jimbos who wrote (9680)	3/9/2000 9:02:00 AM
From: Magic212	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13157

jimbos, LOL! and fresh off the wires... -Leslie biz.yahoo.com Thursday March 9, 8:03 am Eastern Time Company Press Release ADVISORY/The Screen Actors Guild Awards On TNT to be Enhanced With Synchronized Web Activities, Powered by HyperTV Live Event on March 12th Features Revolutionary TV/Web Convergence at TNT.Turner.com (BUSINESS WIRE)-- WHAT: THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS GET INTERACTIVE WITH HYPERTV Turner Network Television (TNT) and ACTV's HyperTV Networks (NASDAQ:IATV - news) deliver a revolutionary FREE TV/Web convergence experience to enhance TNT's airing of The Sixth Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on March 12, 2000 at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Powered by ACTV's HyperTV software, the synchronous online content will include information about the nominated actors and films, fun facts about the presenters and categories and interactive movie trivia, among other features. One interactive game, "Six Degrees of Whoopi," will challenge viewers to discover how nominees are related in some way to Whoopi Goldberg. Ms. Goldberg will open The Sixth Annual SAG Awards. Viewers will also be able to "chat" live in real-time with other movie fans participating in the HyperTV convergence experience nationwide. WHEN: SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2000 8:00 PM ET/PT and 10:00 PM ET/PT (RE-BROADCAST) WHERE: TURNER NETWORK TELEVISION & TNT.Turner.com HOW: To participate, consumers need a TV set with access to TNT programming, and a computer with an Internet connection (minimum 28.8) located in the same room. The innovative TV/Web convergence experience will be accessible at TNT.Turner.com or at hypertv.com. TNT viewers simply need to register and download the free HyperTV software plug-in from the TNT or HyperTV Web sites. Viewers will then be able to log-on to automatically receive and interact, free of charge, with Web content whose automated delivery will be synchronized to correspond with The Sixth Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards as it airs on TNT. Visit TNT.Turner.com for more information. WHY: According to Media Metrix, nearly 23 million households have a TV and computer in the same room, and nearly all of those homes, about 21.8 million, use them simultaneously at least some of the time. Paul Kagan Associates estimates there are more than 20 million households in the U.S. today in which people watch TV while they surf the Web. Contact: Media Contacts: Bratskeir & Company (for ACTV) TNT Mike Rosen Carrie O'Brien Lauren Kuschner 310/788-6906 212/679-2233