Avail Media Wins 34 Former IP Prime(TM) Affiliates
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RESTON, VA, Jun 24 (MARKET WIRE) --
Avail Media, the only independent managed service infrastructure provider
delivering an integrated Linear and On-Demand Digital Media Service,
today announced that the company has signed on an additional 25 former
SES Americom IP Prime(TM) customers, bringing the total to 34. West
Kentucky Telephone is among the former IP Prime(TM) customers that have
signed an agreement with Avail Media's video services solution since SES
Americom announced that it would stop offering the IP Prime service. The
installation of the Avail video service is in progress. With the addition
of these new customers, Avail Media now has a significant share of the
customers that once used the IP Prime service.
"We chose Avail Media because it was the only company to offer a complete
solution, including linear and on-demand content, management of transport
rights, and partnerships that support every component of an IPTV
deployment, all supported by superior service," said West Kentucky's Chief
Executive Officer, Trevor Bonnstetter. "We expect this end-to-end IPTV
solution to deliver value to us, and to ensure that we, in turn, will
deliver value to our subscribers."
Avail Media partners with best-in-class members of the IPTV ecosystem
including equipment providers, resellers, and content owners in order to
deliver value to its customers. Avail Media's partners include sales
channel partners, resellers, and systems integrators such as BBT, CSI
Digital, Evolution Broadband, Falcon IP/Complete, Fidelity Communications,
Motorola, and Nortel; and business consulting groups, such as Jason
Anderson Consulting. Avail Media works with its ecosystem partners to
develop customized solutions, ensuring minimal infrastructure changes and
reasonable fees to support both existing and future affiliates.
"Avail has done a tremendous job of working with many of our members who
were using the IP Prime service from SES Americom to ensure a smooth
transition to the Avail transport platform," said Bob Phillips, President
and Chief Executive Officer of the National Rural Telecommunications
Cooperative (NRTC). "Our members have been leading the way in bringing
IPTV services to consumers in rural America. Avail's record of
performance, their merger with TVN Entertainment, and their vision for
next-generation services, along with NRTC's unmatched programming line-up,
provides our members with solutions that will enable them to continue to
bring their customers the best in video entertainment."
"Our one-stop solution and a focus on providing hands-on support have
proven to be a winning combination in delivering IP-based digital video
services," said Ramu Potarazu, CEO of Avail Media. "We've built our
IP-based digital video offerings to provide the best possible experience
to our affiliates and their subscribers. By helping customers such as West
Kentucky Telephone make a seamless transition from IP Prime, we ensure
that they can keep their promise to subscribers and we can deliver on the
promise of IPTV."
Avail Media and TVN Entertainment now provide services to nearly every
television provider in North America. In addition to the extensive
Hollywood movie studios, cable networks and independent content producers,
joint customers can also enjoy the ability to offer linear programming
from national broadcasters and even more localized, genre-specific,
ethnic/international, and long-tail content.
About West Kentucky Telephone
West Kentucky Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc provides state of the art,
telephone, video and broadband services to customers located in rural
western Kentucky and Tennessee. The company has over 19,000 telephone
subscribers. In addition to its telephone customers, West Kentucky
provides high speed internet to 7300 customers and IPTV video services to
2800 customers. The company is headquartered in Mayfield, Kentucky.
About Avail Media, Inc. and TVN Entertainment
Avail Media, Inc. and TVN Entertainment Corporation together form the
largest independent digital content services company in North America.
Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers
a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video
on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers
throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. The Avail Media/TVN
platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive,
end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing
linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and
extensible to new value services of tomorrow. For more information about
Avail Media's and TVN's products and services, please visit
www.availmedia.com or www.tvn.com.
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