Watchit Media Signs Agreement With Oceanic Time Warner Cable
October 03 2006 - 5:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Watchit to Provide Video Content Featuring Las Vegas Lifestyles to
Oceanic Time Warner's Channel 777 Interactive Television Service
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Watchit Media, Inc.
(OTC:WMDA) today announced the signing of an exclusive Agreement to
produce television news and entertainment features for Channel 777,
Oceanic Time Warner's interactive television, a division of Time
Warner Cable (NYSE:TWX), reaching over 220,000 households
throughout the Hawaiian Islands. According to the Honolulu Star
Bulletin, "Over 350,000 guests travel to Las Vegas annually,
averaging 3 to 4 visits per year." Boyd Gaming, instrumental in the
development of the Hawaiian market for Las Vegas, has two Las Vegas
Hotel/Casinos that cater specifically to the needs of Hawaiians and
run daily charters nonstop from the Islands. Hawaiians love Las
Vegas. Oceanic Time Warner Cable is Hawaii's number one choice for
communication, entertainment and information. Watchit Media has
agreed to provide exclusive Las Vegas lifestyle video content to
777 subscribers, which will include a gaming instruction program;
interviews featuring entertainers and personalities appearing in
Las Vegas; and other exciting programs from the gaming and
entertainment capital of the world. "We have been aggressively
assembling the finest Las Vegas content library available anywhere,
featuring lots of gaming, fabulous entertainment, fine dining with
some of the world's leading chefs, celebrity spotting, outrageous
parties and hot nightclub action," stated James Lavelle Watchit's
Chairman and CEO. "We are thrilled to be working with Oceanic Time
Warner on this exciting project, which gives us the opportunity to
cooperatively sell advertising on their state-of-the-art
interactive cable network and further demonstrates our ability to
serve multiple entertainment platforms including private television
networks, cable television and, very soon, mobile phones with our
valuable video content. What goes on in Las Vegas ... will soon be
available for viewing throughout the Hawaiian Islands." About
Watchit Media Watchit Media, Inc. is a leader in producing
out-of-home place based television programming and advertising on
private television networks (narrowcasting) that match the unique
interests, lifestyles and buying behavior of captive audiences and
one-to-one consumer devices users. Using digital photography,
computer editing and our proprietary Internet Protocol television
network platform, Watchit produces and presents its video content
to gaming and lodging venues across the United States. Our wholly
owned subsidiary Watchit Entertainment, Inc. produces, licenses and
distributes proprietary television programming and video content
across private and cable television networks in a variety of
markets. About Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable owns and manages
cable systems serving 14.4 million subscribers in 33 states.
Passing approximately 28 million homes, Time Warner Cable includes
some of the most technologically advanced and best-clustered cable
systems in the country, with nearly 85 percent of the Company's
customers located in five geographic regions: New York, Texas,
Ohio, the Carolinas and southern California. Leveraging its
leadership in innovation and quality customer care, Time Warner
Cable delivers advanced products and services such as video on
demand, high definition television, digital video recorders,
high-speed data and Digital Phone. Time Warner Cable is a
subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX). Contact Information
James Lavelle Chief Executive Officer Watchit Media, Inc. 3485 W.
Harmon Avenue Las Vegas, Nevada 89103 (702) 740-1751 DATASOURCE:
Watchit Media, Inc. CONTACT: James Lavelle, Chief Executive Officer
of Watchit Media, Inc., +1-702-740-1751, Web site:
http://www.watchitmedia.com/
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