Saturday 13 March 2010

Penny Television Launches


Finance & Property channel Penny Television Adds Its Award Winning Line Up To TV Polari’s IPTV Offerings

DATE (London, UK): A new TV channel is set to help individuals with money on the TV Polari network - the first, UK-launched and globally broadcast, lifestyle IPTV channel that will focus on money, property, investing in people and entertainment. Broadcasting online and via IP set-top box services on the Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV) platform, Penny Television will promote national and international publicity for people and their finance; whether it be exploring the lives of those being made redundant, buying a new home in the UK abroad or an individual trying to help a community.

Penny Television set up in London by finance consultant Aaron Carty, as a channel dedicated to spotlighting money issues in a way that can help and entertain people through top quality programs that they can watch when they want to through the internet or through the TV schedule via the IP set-top box services on the Global Digital Broadcast platform. At the same time as creating a business to business network through featuring unique and specialised companies within the TV programs. The biggest impact Penny Television will have is it’s investment in people. Exploring individuals who are trying to help communities with young people, those who have had radical changes to their lives through economic downturns as well as upturns and those individuals who make a stand to change their lives.

Penny Television as a starring channel on TV Polari, will all be an On Demand and broadcast channel; as content is released on a continual basis, including upcoming titles such as London’s Best Dance Crew influenced by the hit TV show ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’, Queer As Talent, Interior – from the Designer. As well as top US dramas like Desperate Housewives, The Wire, True Blood, Chuck, Sex and the City and Prison Break. Penny Television is such a diverse channel giving birth to a metro sexual money channel that is a lot more than just about saving the pennys but also about how to spend them.

Aaron Carty, Channel Editor of Penny Television add, “I’ve been given this incredible opportunity to create a channel using my expertise and enthusiasm. Penny Television has been created to be a diverse channel that will allow individuals to get involved as much as they want to because the content is focused on these individuals, their money, how they spend it and what not to do with it.”

Lancelot Fougere, CEO for the TV Polari network, adds: “This is an amazing time for the TV Polari Network and we are proud to have Penny Television as one of our channels.”

TV Polari and its sub-channels are available to view globally online via TV Polari’s own website and GDBTV’s Go UK TV portal; and on the Something TV set-top box to television service in the UK.

www.pennytelevision.tv

www.tvpolari.com

To read Global Digital Broadcast press releases online and click through to all channel portals and websites, please visit: http://www.globaldigitalbroadcast.com/press

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Notes to editors

About TV Polari:
TV Polari was launched in 2007 and is based in Brighton. TV Polari offers a package of gay-orientated products and services via global IPTV broadcast (online) and in the UK through the Something TV set-top box service. TV Polari provides lifestyle and news, shopping and movie programming, in addition to hosting the Gabbi World, PLANitGAY travel and Top Gayer sub-channels. From serious issues to comedy and clubbing, TV Polari covers a wide range of subjects for the gay and lesbian community, with the Together TV gay wedding channel set to launch late 2009. TV Polari is the only dedicated gay broadcaster. (http://www.tvpolari.com)

About Global Digital Broadcast:
Established in 2005 and headquartered in Brighton, East Sussex, Global Digital Broadcast (GDBTV) provides technical services in order to enable internet protocol television (IPTV) to be delivered by broadcasters around the world, to viewers around the world. It is the first to develop and implement such a comprehensive, end-to-end, IPTV application, including the G-Studio middleware; an IP set-top box (IP-STB); the online virtual set-top box (VSTB) application; secure age verification processes; and its pioneering MyPVR application, which enables the user/viewer to access previously screened programmes, including saving them in full.

GDBTV maintains and operates a number of international IPTV set-top box networks and can deliver globally online. (http://www.gdbtv.com)

Contacts:

Aaron Carty, Channel Director
Penny Television
Email: aaron@pennytelevision.tv
Telephone: +44(0)208 858 7086 / +44(0)7885 904 755

Lancelot Fougere, CEO

TV Polari
Email:
lance@tvpolari.com
Telephone: +44(0)1689 813742 / +44(0)7956 389108

Wednesday 6 January 2010

The BoyZone Launches TV & Radio






Social Network Launches TV and Radio

Boyzone is one of the fastest growing social networks for gay and bisexual men launched its free to air Television and Radio station this month giving members yet another reason to join the site. TheBoyZone.com, launched in September 2009, now has in excess of 10,000 users from across the World, making it one of the ONLY free social network sites aimed specifically at gay and bisexual men.

In association with TVPolari, the leading gay broadcasting platform, TheBoyZone.com wanted to bring a fresh approach to the rather ‘old hat’ idea that gay sites should be pay sites. The Radio and TV station has been launched to attract advertisers that wish to target gay and bisexual men and already the company is in talks with several well known brands.

“We wanted to offer a 100% free site to all our users and bring them some great additional services.” said Danny Lee, founder and Director of TheBoyZone.com. “With members from over 140 Countries, and growing faster than we could ever have predicted, we are very proud of what we have achieved so far”.

A major breakthrough for TheBoyZone Radio and TV is that it is available via the new set top box straight onto a conventional Television in the same way as Freeview. “We have the potential to be in half a million homes within the next 12 months which is great for our advertisers” said Danny Lee.

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Notes for Editors

1. Theboyzone.com is the first free gay and bisexual social networking website to offer both TV and Radio.
2. Over 30,000 people have visited the website since launch and over 10,000 have joined
3. User have a chat room, messaging, photo uploads, private messaging
4. Users can upload events and blogs for all user to see

Contact:
Danny Lee, Director email - marketing@theboyzone.com Telephone: 07966 277072

www.theboyzone.com
www.tvpolari.com