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Reserve Your Spot At The Water Cooler – Tune in to The Year’s First Presidential Debate on Your Phone, Delivered Live by MobiTV
MobiTV partners with television networks to bring live coverage of Friday’s Presidential debate to the mobile audience
EMERYVILLE, Calif. – September 26, 2008 – MobiTV, FOX News, and MSNBC are extending invitations to the hottest water cooler discussion in the country, keeping the mobile public informed with live coverage of the first Presidential debate tonight. With more than 75 million people expected to tune in to this first debate between Sens. John McCain and Barak Obama, MobiTV is airing the candidates’ respective platforms to a broader audience, helping inform voters on what many are predicting will be one of the closest elections on record.
"These kinds of events are extremely relevant to our users, evidenced by the nearly 400 percent increase in MobiTV’s tune-in to this year’s political conventions, which were also aired live on our service," said Charlie Nooney, Chairman and CEO, MobiTV. "We're committed to consistently bringing relevant and historic events like these to our subscribers through our deep and rich partnerships with content providers like FOX News and MSNBC."
Tonight’s debate will be delivered live without commercial interruptions beginning at 9:00 p.m. EDT.
MobiTV has more than 4 million subscribers on 350+ mobile devices, and powers the mobile TV-viewing experience for major carriers like Sprint, AT&T Wireless and Alltel, among others.
The debates will be available to MobiTV subscribers on AT&T, Sprint, Alltel and other carriers powered by MobiTV. Following the debates viewers can also tune in to a variety of other news channels to receive analysis of the candidates’ respective performances.
About MobiTV
MobiTV (http://www.mobitv.com), the leader in the delivery of mobile content
and services, develops and offers technology solutions that power an end-to-end
managed network for content ingestion, encoding and optimized delivery
over mobile and broadband networks. MobiTV’s platform technology
delivers live television, premium and primetime programming, video-on-demand,
satellite and digital music services from top broadcast and cable television
networks and major music labels through its carrier and operator partners
to more than four million subscribers worldwide. Founded in 1999, MobiTV
is a privately held company with headquarters in Emeryville, California.
For more information about MobiTV mobile television products and services, go to: http://www.mobitv.com/gettv. To learn more about MobiTV mobile digital music products and services, go to: http://www.mobitv.com/getradio. Business partners and customers interested in learning more about MobiTV’s hosted content delivery technology and solutions, please visit: http://www.mobitv.com/technology/partners.
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