Ken Starr Report Available Now to
PC Users on WavePhore's WaveTop
Free Data Broadcast Service
WaveTop Allows PC Users Nationwide and in Canada to Bypass Long
Delays Associated with Using the Internet
PHOENIX, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Data broadcast leader WavePhore, Inc., (Nasdaq:
WAVO - news) today announced that the 455-page report from Whitewater independent
counsel, Kenneth Starr, is immediately available on the company's WaveTop data broadcast
network, allowing users of this free service nationwide and in most of Canada to quickly read the
contents of the report on their PCs without getting on the Internet. WaveTop will broadcast the
report continuously for the next 48-hours allowing users to obtain the report without any delay.
The Starr report was released today over the World Wide Web. However, public interest in its
contents is expected to create a massive traffic jam on the Internet, making access to the special
prosecutor's findings impossible for many. The WaveTop service broadcasts Web and other
multimedia content to PC users over the unused portion of PBS television signals, avoiding the
delays and frustrations often associated with the Internet.
''Public demand to read the Starr report is expected to cause delays, not only to those who wish
to view the document, but to all Internet users, both in businesses and homes. Making the report
available on WaveTop will mitigate this problem and allow immediate access to the document for
our users,'' said Patrick Gilbert, Sr. Vice President, CTO, WaveTop.
''Today's unmet demand for access to the Starr report underscores the bandwidth limitations of
the Internet which are experienced by users every day,'' Gilbert continued. The WaveTop network
overcomes this bottleneck, allowing PC users to tap television airwaves to capture the most
compelling content found on the World Wide Web.''
All that is required to access the WaveTop service is a PC enabled with a television tuner card and
WaveTop's free software. The TV tuner cards are available for as little as $49 at CompUSA and
other major computer and electronics stores. WaveTop is an integrated component of the
Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98 operating system. In addition, a Windows 95-compatible version is
bundled by many tuner board manufacturers and is also available on the WaveTop web site
(http://www.wavetop.net).
WaveTop's unique free, advertising-supported broadcast service already provides a wide range of
multi-media programming, including news, investment advice and information, children's
programming, weather, consumer reports, and much more, all supplied by the Web's leading
content providers. Distributed nationally via the unused portion of television signals from 264 PBS
member stations around the country, WaveTop currently reaches the top 100 U.S. markets,
representing over 85 percent of all U.S. households. It will reach more than 99 percent of U.S.
households by year-end.
ADVERTISER-SUPPORTED
WaveTop is supported by leading consumer-brand charter advertisers. They include companies
such as Atlanta Bank, EMI Records, Hewlett-Packard Co. [NYSE:HWP - news], Intel Corp.
[Nasdaq:INTC - news], Kellogg Co., Lincoln-Mercury Inc., Mobil Corp. [NYSE:MOB - news],
Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Salomon Smith Barney Holdings and Spiegel Inc [Nasdaq:SPGLA -
news]. WaveTop's ability to deliver high-bandwidth applications to the home without the
download delays associated with modems allows advertisers to send more creative multimedia
advertisements such as movie and video clips, games, software downloads and micro sites.
RICH CONTENT
WaveTop content providers are among the world's leading media companies, including Time Inc.
New Media, which includes the online versions of People, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Money,
Fortune and Sports Illustrated for Kids magazines and ZDNet News, online 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, Warner Bros. Online,
Bloomberg LP, The Weather Channel, N2K's Music Boulevard, barnesandnoble.com, Universal
Press Syndicate: Comics, Women's Wire and Prevention's Healthy Ideas, ParentTime,
Supermarkets Online, Astrology.Net, Dummies Daily, UltimateTV and NECX. The media
partners' content will create channels appealing to the whole family. WaveTop channels include
NewsTop, the latest in news, sports, weather, and entertainment news; StockTop, regularly
updated stock information and business news; KidsTop, fun, interactive educational content from
brand-name, children-oriented programmers; TechTop, the latest technical news, downloads of
free software, shareware and bug fixes; FamilyTop, the latest resource information for parents and
working women; and FunTop, with the latest samples of games, music, comics and best-selling
books.
ABOUT WAVEPHORE
WavePhore, Inc. (Nasdaq: WAVO - news) is the leading new media content integrator and
architect of digital delivery systems. It partners with the foremost providers of news, business data,
Web-based content and multimedia programming to deliver selective intelligence and quality
content to an information-dependent society. WavePhore (www.wavephore.com) enables people
and enterprises to more efficiently receive, manage and productively use all types of urgent,
insightful, or relevant information. The company's technologies and services aggregate, filter,
customize and distribute digital content (text, graphics, music, and video) using a wide range of
reliable, low-cost broadcast (FM sideband, TV-VBI), satellite and Web-based delivery systems.
It has technology sourcing and strategic alliances with Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, Sony, Gateway,
STB, ADS and PBS National Datacast, in addition to information service agreements with some
two hundred Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide. Additional information on WavePhore is
available via the Internet at wavephore.com. Information on its business units can be
found at: wavetop.net, wavephore.net and newscast.com.
Certain of the above statements regarding WavePhore constitute forward-looking statements,
which may involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from such
forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including, but not limited to,
technology changes, competitive developments, industry and market acceptance of new products
and services, risk factors listed from time to time in WavePhore's SEC filings.
Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or
other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
SOURCE: WavePhore, Inc. |
