OpenTV and Sky Italia Extend Partnership
December 13 2007 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Italy's leading pay-TV operator renews agreement for OpenTV
solutions SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OpenTV
Corp. (NASDAQ:OPTV), a leading provider of solutions for the
delivery of advanced television and cross-platform interactive
services, announced today that Sky Italia has entered into a
multi-year renewal of its middleware license agreement with OpenTV.
Sky Italia is Italy's premier provider of satellite television,
offering a variety of programming choices to more than four million
subscribers. "We are extremely pleased with Sky Italia's decision
to renew our relationship on a long term basis and explore OpenTV's
full range of next generation middleware products," said Ben
Bennett, OpenTV's Chief Operating Officer. "Our goal is to continue
building on this strong partnership by ensuring our technology is
aligned as closely as possible with Sky Italia's business needs; a
long term partnership means OpenTV providing Sky Italia with proven
and innovative solutions that help grow their business and retain
customers through world-class enhanced, interactive and targeted
services." "OpenTV's commitment and responsiveness to our
requirements make them the middleware of choice for Sky Italia,"
said Mark Williams, Sky Italia's Chief Operating Officer. "We are
pleased to extend our relationship with the OpenTV team and look
forward to their continued support and delivery of innovative
solutions." Sky Italia's programming features a wide range of
digital television services, including the innovative and
successful "MySky" personal video recording receiver and a variety
of OpenTV-powered interactive services featuring news, weather,
music and sports. About OpenTV OpenTV is one of the world's leading
providers of solutions for the delivery of digital and interactive
television. The company's software has been integrated in more than
96 million digital set-top boxes and digital televisions around the
world, and enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand,
personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive
shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and a
variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more
information, please visit http://www.opentv.com/. About SKY Italia
SKY Italia, 100% controlled by News Corporation Limited, was born
in 2003 and since then has been continuously growing, reaching
4,240,000 subscribers as of 30 September 2007. The platform
currently broadcasts over 170 television, interactive services and
pay-per-view channels, ranging from sports to movies, news,
entertainment, documentaries, children programming, and music. SKY
programming can be received on IPTV platform as well as via
satellite. The platform's complete television offer is available on
the Fastweb, Telecom Italia's Alice Home TV and Wind's Infostrada
TV broadband networks; and in the next months, SKY's packages will
be available on the Tiscali's IPTV network. SKY, moreover,
broadcasts some specially-designed programs on mobile TV systems,
in association with Vodafone, H3G and TIM. For more information,
please visit http://www.sky.it/ Cautionary Language Regarding
Forward-Looking Information The foregoing information contains
certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the
United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements are based on management's current expectations and
are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual
results may differ materially from these expectations due to
changes in political, economic, business, competitive, market and
regulatory factors. In particular, factors that could cause our
actual results to differ include risks related to: market
acceptance of interactive television services and applications such
as ours; delays in the development or introduction of new
applications and versions of our service; technical difficulties
with networks or operating systems; our ability to manage our
resources effectively; changes in technologies that affect the
television industry; and the protection of our proprietary
information. These and other risks are more fully described in our
periodic reports and registration statements filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission and can be obtained online at
the Commission's web site at http://www.sec.gov/. Readers should
consider the information contained in this release together with
other publicly available information about our company for a more
informed overview of our company. We disclaim any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
DATASOURCE: OpenTV Corp. CONTACT: Christine Oury of OpenTV Corp.,
+1-415-962-5433, ; or Tran Ngo, +1-323-866-6077, , or Justin
Hayward, +44 0 20 7878 32919, , both of Manning Selvage & Lee,
for OpenTV Corp. Web site: http://www.opentv.com/
http://www.sky.it/
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