Sling.com Announces Content Distribution Agreement With HIT Entertainment
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NEW YORK, NY and FOSTER CITY, CA, Mar 30 (MARKET WIRE)
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HIT Entertainment, a world-renowned provider of quality children's
entertainment, and Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), today announced a content
distribution partnership for a variety of premium programming from HIT
Entertainment that, in the coming weeks, will be available on Sling
Media's free video entertainment web site, Sling.com. Sling.com will
feature videos from a variety of popular HIT Entertainment properties,
including Thomas the Tank Engine(TM), Barney (TM), Bob the Builder(TM),
and many others.
Sling Media will create a custom HIT Entertainment-branded channel within
Sling.com, which will give users direct and easy access to their favorite
HIT brands.
"Partnering with Sling Media provides an exciting new channel of
distribution for our programs," said Rob Weisstuch, senior vice president
and CIO, HIT Entertainment. "Through this agreement, we are pleased to be
able to offer families access to a vast library of programs when they want
it, where they want it."
"We are delighted to be able to bring these marquee brands to the
Sling.com audience," said Sarah Jeon, vice president of Content
Acquisition & Partnerships for Sling Media. "HIT's brands represent the
gold standard of children's programming, and we couldn't be more excited
to be able to offer this video content to our users."
Sling.com is an ad-supported online video portal that gives users free
access to a premiere library of diverse professional content from
television networks, movie studios, sports leagues and top websites. A
true "water cooler on the web," Sling.com combines professional
programming with a unique editorial voice and easy, logical navigation,
allowing users to browse within special channels, networks, and show
pages that feature long-and short-form content from a variety of video
partners. A full list of channels available on Sling.com can be found at
http://www.sling.com/network/list.
About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners,
is one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment
producers and rights-owners. HIT's portfolio includes properties, such as
Barney(TM), Bob the Builder(TM), Thomas & Friends(TM), Pingu(TM), Fireman
Sam(TM), Angelina Ballerina(TM) and Rainbow Magic(TM). HIT represents
Chapman Entertainment's Fifiand the Flowertots(TM) and Roary the Racing
Car(TM) in North America and Japan, as well as Wallace & Gromit(TM), Shaun
the Sheep(TM) and Aardman Classics from Aardman Animations. HIT also acts
as a worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company's library of
classic family brands and as representative for The Wiggles(R) in the UK.
Launched in 1989, HIT's lines of business span television and video
production, content distribution, publishing, consumer products licensing
and live events and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and
Japan. HIT is a part-owner of US-based preschool channel, PBS KIDS
Sprout(SM), and international preschool channel JimJam, (outside of the
US, UK and China). For more information, visit www.hitentertainment.com.
About Sling Media, Inc.
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(TM) 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(TM), 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.
Media contacts:
Jay Tannenbaum
Sling Media
650-293-8007
Email Contact
Noelle Dong
HIT Entertainment
646.467.5336
Email Contact
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