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Acclaimed German Broadcaster Deutsche Welle TV Launches Live Channel on TVU

Mountain View, CA – May 29, 2008 - TVU Networks, the leading global service for live Internet TV, announced today the expansion of its channel line-up with the addition of pre-eminent German broadcaster Deutsche Welle TV. 

The German international broadcasting service offers a global package of programs for radio and television:  DW-TV in German, English as well as in Spanish and Arabic; DW-RADIO in German and nearly 30 foreign languages; DW-WORLD.DE, the multimedia Internet service in all these languages.

At the core of DW-TV programming is news every hour as well as up-to-date reports, series and shows about politics, business, culture and sports.

Deutsche Welle TV today works with more than 5,000 partner broadcast stations and more than 400 institutions. DW-TV is fed into 6,000 hotels reaching an impressive 1 million individual rooms internationally. More than 28.5 million watch DW-TV at least once a week, and DW-TV is present in excess of 240 million households.

According to Stefan Bliemsrieder, Deputy Head of Deutsche Welle's Asian Distribution, "We are delighted to expand the broadcast footprint of DW-TV through TVU.  TVU's geo-blocking capabilities allow us to honor our existing distribution agreements in North America, while allowing us to extend our reach through their live Internet TV platform to the rest of the world."

Paul Shen, CEO of TVU Networks states, "We are honored to welcome the prestigious Deutsche Welle TV on board TVU.  Deutsche Welle is the ‘voice of Germany' and the most important communications medium to Germans abroad and any individual interested in German culture, politics, and opinion – making it a natural fit for TVU and our viewership of 18 million in 200 countries."


About TVU Networks:
TVU Networks, www.tvunetworks.com, delivers a live global TV service transmitted via the Internet.  The service combines patent-pending Real-time P2P television delivery technology with a global network of content providers to bring viewers programs that they won't find on their local cable and satellite TV system, including sports and news from around the world.  For TV broadcasters, both professional and amateur, TVU Networks offers a cost-effective turnkey solution to reach a global viewer base with an unlimited channel capacity and very low broadcasting costs.  TVU's solution includes effective monetization capabilities for content owners, including geo-filtering, subscription services and personalized in-stream ad insertion tools.  The TVU service is currently shipping bundled with all HP Pavilion consumer laptops.

 

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Mika Saitoh
TVU networks Corp.
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mika@tvunetworks.com
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