Yoomedia PLC
15 March 2004
YooMedia Plc ('YooMedia')
YooMedia extends Cartoon Network contract
YooMedia, the interactive TV and mobile entertainment company, has signed an
exclusive two-year contract with Turner Broadcasting System's Cartoon Network to
provide the channel with interactive TV games on both UK digital cable
platforms. The games will be accessible directly from the broadcast stream via
the remote control red button. It is envisaged that at least 10 new pay-per-play
games will be launched under the agreement.
YooMedia and the Cartoon Network first became partners in November 2002 when
YooMedia built the interactive TV games portal for the channel on Telewest. In
February 2004, YooMedia extended Cartoon Network's reach into the pay-per-play
games market with the launch of services on NTL. Both portals have between six
and eight pay-per-play games scheduled at any one time including branded
adaptions of popular cartoon series The Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Doo and Tom and
Jerry.
About YooMedia
YooMedia plc is a digital TV and wireless entertainment company that provides
services including chat, games and dating products. YooMedia has:
• Acquired GoPlay TV Ltd. an interactive-games channel currently
operated by Sony Pictures Digital Inc. GoPlay owns and operates an interactive
games channel available on the first page of the interactive main menu on Sky
Digital.
• Signed an exclusive three-year partnership agreement with Sportingbet
Group, one of the world's leading online gambling business, which will initially
see YooMedia launching Sportingbet's popular games products on all digital
platforms in the UK in 2004.
• The exclusive license for Tetris across UK digital cable and Freeview.
• Signed an exclusive partnership with Dateline to develop and launch
all of its interactive dating services on digital television.
• Invested in and launched the first ever games channel on Freeview
called Free2Play and has secured the right to run pay to play games on the
platform.
• An agreement with ntl: Home to distribute all its products on its
digital interactive cable platform.
• Pioneered (and successfully trialled in partnership with Turner
Broadcasting) the use of mobile phones to interact in real time with a TV
programme. The Trigger TV technology is exclusive to YooMedia and protected by
a worldwide patent.
• Been selected by the government as the only dedicated interactive TV
company for the E-voting Framework.
YooMedia plc is quoted on the Alternative Investment Market.
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