iMIX ""Best Of Show"" Awards Honors Interactive TV Industry

27-Oct-00

CMP Media Inc. and iMIX Inc., producers of interactive television's (iTV) key trade event, iMIX v2.0, announced three winners of the event's ""Best Of Show"" award. Honored for excellence in interactive TV (iTV) and the convergence of television and the Internet were the collaborative efforts of ACTV, Inc. (NASDAQ: IATV) and TBS Superstation, MetaTV and E! Online, and Spiderdance and MTVi.The iMIX v2.0 event, held in New York City, focused on bringing members of the community creating interactive television content together. The primary goal of the annual conference is to foster an open environment for professionals to discuss strategic, technical and creative issues that affect the developing iTV industry and exchange ideas about the issues, challenges and solutions facing the industry today. The ""Best Of Show"" awards program provided an opportunity for exhibitors and their partners to showcase their most advanced content and technology. The winners were determined by balloted votes gathered from each conference attendee after viewing the eligible projects.""Our goal is to provide a forum where creative, influential members of the iTV industry can come together to cultivate an industry-centric point of view that transcends individual companies and agendas,"" said Mark Miller, Chairman, iMIX v2.0. ""We believe that it is now very apparent that iTV will be a mass market medium and the quality and sophistication of the projects and the companies involved clearly demonstrated that iTV is already deployed today and will rapidly grow to be a major force in the future. We congratulate ACTV, MetaTV and Spiderdance, as well as all of the participants, for a job well done.""The ""Best Of Show"" awards went to:- ACTV and TBS Superstation - iWATCH Wednesday/WCW ContentACTV's HyperTV Networks and TBS Superstation joined forces for iWATCH Wednesday, powered by ACTV's HyperTV software. iWATCH Wednesday marks the first time that convergence technology has been used to promote and enhance an entire prime-time block of narrative programs on a weekly basis. The weekly three-hour event is an enhanced viewing experience that uses the Internet to provide a multimedia accompaniment during the prime-time airings of TBS Superstation's Wednesday night programs, including ""WCW Thunder,"" TBS Superstation's flagship wrestling program. Viewers who log-on to TBSSuperstation.com every Wednesday night can download the free HyperTV plug-in and experience carefully synchronized interactive Web content including trivia, games, contests, polls and behind-the-scenes information about ""WCW Thunder,"" the wrestlers and story lines. Viewers can also chat on-line as the shows air. For more information on ACTV, visit www.actv.com.- MetaTV and E! Online - E! Online for iTVMetaTV teamed with E! Online to design, develop and deploy a cross-platform TV service without affecting the content or production of their existing Internet site or impacting their internal development resources. MetaTV's Universal Portalô Platform technology and professional services enables E! Online to have a new TV centric design that incorporates the elements necessary for a compelling enhanced television experience. By dynamically harvesting and re-purposing existing E! Online content MetaTV's technology optimizes elements such as page sizing, colors and fonts for any targeted middleware and set-top box environment, allowing them to alter categories and subcategories without disrupting layout. As a result, E! Online can continue to maintain one version of content on their existing web site while MetaTV's adaptive cross-platform capabilities gives them distribution opportunities across a wide range of interactive TV environments. For more information on MetaTV, visit www.metatv.com.- Spiderdance and MTVi - webRIOTPartnering with Viacom's MTV, in November 1999 Spiderdance launched webRIOT, the first fully integrated online/on-air television show. webRIOT is a music trivia TV game show, where Internet users can play along with the TV in a real-time sync-to-broadcast experience. webRIOT online players are able to play along with the fast-paced, dynamic TV show, chat with other players and be one of the top ten online scorers who have their names displayed in the live broadcast. In the first six months of operation, webRIOT gathered over 1,000,000 registered users. For more information on Spiderdance, visit www.spiderdance.com.For more information about CMP Media Inc., visit www.cmpnet.com. For more information about iMIX, visit visit www.imix.tv.

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