Diversion Media Slingshots Sling.com
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Development solutions support new on-demand video entertainment destination
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Diversion Media, LLC, a New York-based broadband video company, announced that
it has provided technology development and support for the new Sling.com video
entertainment destination, which launched to the public on November 24, 2008.
"Diversion Media's development is the gold standard and they've been a great
partner," said Jason Hirschhorn, President of Sling Media Entertainment. "They
have been instrumental in building a next generation video experience in
Sling.com."
"Sling.com is a game-changing product, and we are very proud to have been a part
of its development," said Diversion Media CEO Nicholas Butterworth. Butterworth
was formerly CEO of The MTV Interactive Group, Inc. ("MTVi").
Diversion's engineering team, led by CTO Tatum Lade, partnered with Sling Media
to deliver key code components and provided hosting and infrastructure support
for the site.
"I am very proud of our team and pleased to have helped make a great product,"
said Lade. Formerly Mr. Lade was VP/Engineering at iFilm, Inc.
About Diversion Media
Diversion Media, LLC (www.diversionmedia.com) is a broadband video company based
in New York, offering technology development, video production, encoding and
syndication services. Diversion also publishes the consumer-facing sites
Travelistic (www.travelistic.com) and Snowvision (www.snowvision.com).
About Sling Media
Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:
SATS), is a leading digital lifestyle company offering consumer services and
products that are a natural extension of today's digital way of life. Sling
Media's product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy
award-winning Slingbox™ that allows consumers to watch and control their living
room television shows at any time, from any location, using PCs, Macs, PDAs and
smartphones and the revolutionary new SlingCatcher™, a universal media player
that seamlessly delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to
the TV. Sling Media is also the company behind the video entertainment web site,
Sling.com, offering consumers a wide variety of popular TV shows, movies and
other entertainment free for viewing online or on the TV using SlingCatcher. For
more information on Sling Media, the Slingbox or the SlingCatcher, visit
www.slingmedia.com. To watch your favorite TV shows and movies, check out
www.sling.com.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Diversion Media, LLC
Chris Bernier, 631-219-9708
cbernier@diversionmedia.com
or
Sling Media, Inc.
Brian Jaquet, 650-293-8022 office or 415-235-4844 mobile
jaquet@slingmedia.com
Copyright Business Wire 2008
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