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VSNI News ABC News Now Brings Breaking News, Feature Stories and More to VisiFone VoIP Subscribers; VisiFone Pilot to Provide Consumers with Personalized News, Information, and Entertainment Content
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2005--ViseonMedia, a subsidiary of Viseon, Inc. (OTCBB:VSNI) and exclusive source of TV-quality interactive programming to VisiFone Multimedia digital home telephones, today announced that ABC News Now has agreed to provide content in a VisiFone consumer pilot slated for 2006. ViseonMedia will receive selected programming from ABC News Now and will format and broadcast to VisiFone installed homes throughout the United States. The addition of ABC News Now further validates the concept of VisiFone as a platform or "third screen" for real-time interaction between "mass media" and the consumers using a VisiFone multimedia display for fully interactive video and digital audio without the complexities of a personal computer.
"ABC News is a leading provider of tailored multimedia news including 24-hour news channel ABC News Now, plus video-on-demand reports from all ABC News broadcasts," said Bernard Gershon, General Manager of ABC News Now. "We continually strive to test and distribute our all-digital suite of news content on innovative multiple media platforms such as the VisiFone."
"We are proud to broadcast ABC News Now to our VoIP VisiFone consumer pilot subscribers," said ViseonMedia President and CEO J.D. de Haseth. "With ABC News Now's unprecedented, all-digital suite of news content, this truly is a testament to what the capabilities of VoIP really are for those consumers seeking to migrate from their traditional antiquated landline telephones to new VoIP smart phones such as the world's first multimedia digital VisiFone."
ViseonMedia will deliver news, sports, shopping, weather, information, and entertainment programming to VisiFone users around the globe. Consumers can choose to view personally customized content as well as control the features of their VoIP services directly on the screen of their VisiFone. ViseonMedia interactive programming on the VisiFone is not designed to replace the television or the web portal experience. Instead, it is a dedicated third screen within the home where consumers can automatically view personalized information on their preferred schedule in a TV-quality like experience.
According to International Data Corporation, 3 million users will have VoIP service in 2005, reaching 27 million users by 2009. For further information, please see the company websites at www.viseonmedia.com and www.viseon.com.
About the VisiFone
The VisiFone is the world's first consumer broadband digital telephone designed specifically for Voice over IP (VoIP) service. The VisiFone provides not only digital quality telephony, but also two-way, TV quality video communications and IP-based video streaming. The VisiFone provides on-screen VoIP feature management, digital Wideband speakerphone/handset and digital photo/video sharing. Designed to deliver to consumers all of the benefits of broadband digital telephony on a single device, it will also foster the development of a wide range of revenue generating applications for carriers. The VisiFone will be available to consumers through VoIP carriers beginning in late 2005. A pilot project, offering subscribers a wide selection of video-on-demand news, entertainment, and interactive shopping, will go on air in Q2 2006.
ABC News Now is a first-of-its-kind multimedia news initiative that includes 24-hour news channel and video-on-demand reports from all ABC News broadcasts available across multiple platforms, including cable, satellite, broadband, IPTV, and wireless. Launched by ABC News in March 2003, ABC News Now delivers live breaking news events, hourly news briefs and original reports from ABC News correspondents. ABC News Now is part of the ABC News Digital Media Group. Bernard Gershon is senior vice president and general manager of the ABC News Digital Media Group, which also includes ABCNews.com, ABC News International, ABC News Productions, and VideoSource, ABC News' library of historic news events dating back to 1963. Michael Clemente is Executive Producer of ABC News Now.
More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source. Through its platforms on television, radio, and the Internet, ABC News reaches on average more than 215 million people each week. ABC News programs are seen in 88 countries worldwide. ABCNEWS.com is part of the ABC News Digital Media Group. ABC News Digital Media Group, which also includes, ABC News Now, the most extensive live and VOD news content offering in the marketplace today, ABC News International, ABC News Productions, and VideoSource.
ViseonMedia, a subsidiary of Viseon, Inc., focuses on providing information, entertainment and other relevant content to emerging, new digital home platforms, including the VisiFone, the world's first digital home telephone. ViseonMedia efficiently delivers rich media content and targeted advertising directly to consumers through its network of broadband-enabled, interactive consumer videophones. ViseonMedia's target market of broadband videophone users is expected to make up a growing segment of the 27 million new U.S. VoIP subscribers by the end of 2009. ViseonMedia's offices are located in 777 E. Atlantic Ave, #226, Delray Beach, FL 33483. For more information, contact ViseonMedia's Sales and Business Development team at 561-279-9088 or email to bizdev@viseonmedia.com.
About Viseon, Inc.
Founded in 1993 with headquarters in Dallas, Viseon, Inc. (OTCBB:VSNI) is a leading developer and manufacturer of patented personal broadband communications solutions. Viseon products have been sold under various brand names around the world including Philips, VTEL, and Gentner. Viseon's mission is to work with carriers to enhance the consumer telephone experience by positioning VoIP as a premium service versus Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), and ultimately replacing the analog telephone by bringing digital telephony quality to the broader public. The target markets for Viseon's VisiFone are the 150 million global consumers which are projected to switch to VoIP in the next five years. Other markets for the VisiFone include corporations, universities, and government agencies. Viseon holds broadband communication related patents in the U.S. and 18 European and Asian countries and has additional patents pending. For more information on the Company, including investor presentation, please visit the Company's Website, www.viseon.com.
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