Reserve Your Spot at the Water Cooler – Tune in to the Year’s First Presidential Debate on Your Phone, Delivered Live by MobiTV
MobiTV Partners with Television Networks to Bring Live Coverage of Friday’s Presidential Debate to the Mobile Audience
EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MobiTV, FOX News, and MSNBC are extending invitations to the hottest
water cooler discussion in the country, keeping the mobile public
informed with live coverage of the first Presidential debate tonight.
With more than 75 million people expected to tune in to this first
debate between Sens. John McCain and Barak Obama, MobiTV is airing the
candidates’ respective platforms to a broader
audience, helping inform voters on what many are predicting will be one
of the closest elections on record.
"These kinds of events are extremely relevant to our users, evidenced by
the nearly 400 percent increase in MobiTV’s
tune-in to this year’s political conventions,
which were also aired live on our service," said Charlie Nooney,
Chairman and CEO, MobiTV. "We're committed to consistently bringing
relevant and historic events like these to our subscribers through our
deep and rich partnerships with content providers like FOX News and
MSNBC."
Tonight’s debate will be delivered live
without commercial interruptions beginning at 9:00 p.m. EDT.
MobiTV has more than 4 million subscribers on 350+ mobile devices, and
powers the mobile TV-viewing experience for major carriers like Sprint,
AT&T Wireless and Alltel, among others.
The debates will be available to MobiTV subscribers on AT&T, Sprint,
Alltel and other carriers powered by MobiTV. Following the debates
viewers can also tune in to a variety of other news channels to receive
analysis of the candidates’ respective
performances.
About MobiTV
MobiTV (http://www.mobitv.com),
the leader in the delivery of mobile content and services, develops and
offers technology solutions that power an end-to-end managed network for
content ingestion, encoding and optimized delivery over mobile and
broadband networks. MobiTV’s platform
technology delivers live television, premium and primetime programming,
video-on-demand, satellite and digital music services from top broadcast
and cable television networks and major music labels through its carrier
and operator partners to more than four million subscribers worldwide.
Founded in 1999, MobiTV is a privately held company with headquarters in
Emeryville, California.
For more information about MobiTV mobile television products and
services, go to: http://www.mobitv.com/gettv.
To learn more about MobiTV mobile digital music products and services,
go to: http://www.mobitv.com/getradio.
Business partners and customers interested in learning more about MobiTV’s
hosted content delivery technology and solutions, please visit: http://www.mobitv.com/technology/partners.
MobiTV and the MobiTV logo are trademarks, service marks, and/or
registered trademarks of MobiTV, Inc. in the United States and in other
countries. All other trademarks, service marks, and product names used
herein are the property of their respective owners.
For MobiTV
Andy Kill, 650-691-7311
kill@airfoilpr.com