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Hit Wireless Game BUZZTIME Widens Its Reach
URL(s): www.airborneentertainment.com
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA/MONTREAL, CANADA, Jan 16, 2002 - Its numbers are staggering. Over one million
minutes of use generated in its first 50 days, dwarfing all other wireless games. Over 250,000 unique users. And all that with just one wireless carrier.
Now, BUZZTIME(TM), the massive, multi-player, real-time trivia quiz show, is widening its reach to eventually conquer the entire country. Through a
strategic partnership with Airborne Entertainment's PocketBoxOffice network, BUZZTIME is now available to all ALLTEL mobile data customers.
Now, everyone with an ALLTEL WAP-enabled device can enjoy and participate in the live, interactive competition of BUZZTIME. Before the Spring
sets in, BUZZTIME will go even wider, launching with Cingular by the end of February and with many other carrier partners shortly thereafter.
Buzztime Entertainment, Inc. a subsidiary of NTN Communications (AMEX: NTN) is an interactive television (iTV) and wireless game company that
reaches more consumers on more interactive platforms than any other entertainment programmer today. Players "tune-in" to the BUZZTIME broadcast
and join in the live competitions in restaurants and taverns, at home, and now with wireless, anywhere and anytime. The trivia content is unique, spiced
with attitude and wide-reaching in its subject matter. Via PocketBoxOffice, mobile users will now be able to play the popular BUZZTIME game
Countdown, in general, sports and entertainment categories.
PocketBoxOffice prides itself on presenting the most robust mobile entertainment offering for wireless devices. Featuring a dozen different channels of
fun -- from the wildly popular gaming-junkie heaven WeGot Games to the wide-reaching wit of TheFunniest-the world's first-ever mobile entertainment
network is jammed with over eighty inventive programs. The signing of Buzztime brings another well-known consumer brand name into the
PocketBoxOffice network, which already includes the likes of Dear Abby, the Adam@Home comic strip, National Lampoon and Goosehead amongst
others. PocketBoxOffice is now the exclusive wireless home of all BUZZTIME activity.
The company is licensing Buzztime's trivia games and wireless technology, and will handle the technology, sales and marketing of the BUZZTIME
trivia channel on all wireless platforms. PocketBoxOffice will also take over the development, hosting, communication, billing and related technology
requirements and associated costs.
"Our initial success on one wireless carrier combined with our focus on interactive television development lead us to find the best possible partner to
manage and further our wireless aspirations and vision," said Tyrone Lam, president of Buzztime Entertainment. "With its vast network of contacts, its
powerful technology and its show business expertise, Airborne and PocketBoxOffice was the obvious choice to help BUZZTIME reach its full
wireless potential. Our trivia competitions are exciting and are designed to keep players coming back. Now, we are expanding out far-reaching
distribution in the USA, so the already passionate competition for top-score bragging rights will intensify to new levels."
"BUZZTIME is arguably the hottest mobile entertainment app out there, and we are thrilled to offer it as perhaps the most premium of our Premium
Games," enthused Airborne Entertainment's President, Andy Nulman. "The attention to detail, the quality and the addictive nature of BUZZTIME puts it
far away in front of any trivia game available to wireless device users. But what really separates BUZZTIME from the pack is its depth of content, with
well over 100,000 question-and-answer sets. You can play this game forever and never see repeats."
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