Apple and CNN.com Team Up to Deliver Top-Quality News Via QuickTime Streaming
QUICKTIME LIVE!, LOS ANGELES-Nov. 9, 1999-Apple® and CNN today announced that CNN.com will begin using QuickTime(tm) 4 to stream breaking news and the day's top news reports from CNN to millions of users worldwide. CNN has also launched a new channel on the QuickTime TV (QTV) network that will feature round-the-clock newscasts from CNN Headline News, on-demand daily video reports as well as audio reports from CNNRadio.
"Internet users worldwide have an ever-growing interest in multimedia offerings, and CNN.com's use of QuickTime significantly enhances the quality of our video and audio streaming capabilities," said Scott Woelfel, CNN senior vice president, general manager and editor in chief, CNN Interactive. "CNN's QuickTime TV channel will provide QTV users with a rich mix of up-to-the minute international and national news, global weather forecasts and highlights from some of their favorite CNN programs."
"Apple's new QTV network is rapidly becoming the best source of premium programming on the web," said Phil Schiller, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Today's announcement delivers news content from industry-leader CNN to millions of QTV viewers around the world."
CNN.com joins the QTV network's growing lineup of leading content providers, including ABCNEWS.com, BBC WORLD, Bloomberg, Disney.com, ESPN.com, FOXNews.com, FOXSports.com, HBO, The Knitting Factory, NPR®, RollingStone.com, Rhino Records, VH1, Virgin Radio, Warner Bros. Records, Inc., The Weather Channel® and WGBH Boston. In addition, Apple today announced new QTV channels from Financial Times, MTV, Nickelodeon, TV Land and tv-radio.com (see related release).
Macintosh® and Windows users can view QTV's diverse content via Apple's state-of-the-art QuickTime Player, which provides one-click access to users' favorite QTV channels as well as the ability to bookmark content from anywhere on the Internet. The QuickTime Player is available as a free download from www.apple.com/quicktime.
Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Apple is now recommitted to its original mission-to bring the best personal computing products and support to students, educators, designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over 140 countries around the world.
CNN Interactive is responsible for the award-winning news site CNN.com, as well as seven other Web sites and the distribution of CNN News content via other distribution platforms such as PageNet pagers and iMagic's PowerPhones. CNN Interactive also produces CNN Mobile, the most comprehensive and advanced 24-hour global and pan-regional news and information service for GSM mobile phones, which was launched in February 1999, and will be available to more than 30 million customers worldwide by the end of the year. The CNN Web sites generate more traffic and attract more unduplicated Internet users than any other company's general news and information Web sites. The CNN Web sites average more than 556 million page impressions a month and have served more than five billion page impressions during the first nine months of 1999.
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