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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Seattle Times Launch Advanced Television Programming Search and Personalization Service With MeeVee

Posted on: Monday, 21 August 2006, 12:00 CDT

Top newspaper web sites choose MeeVee's interactive TV listings to provide visitors with new search capabilities and customized programming selections

MeeVee (www.meevee.com), the premier developer of personalized video entertainment search and discovery experiences for consumers on the Internet, today announced syndication agreements with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Seattle Times, each top independent U.S. newspapers, with leading news and information web sites in their respective markets.

The partnership provides visitors to seattletimes.com and post-gazette.com a personalized TV programming guide and search experience based on MeeVee's patented technologies. The MeeVee-powered TV listing service is live at http://www.post-gazette.meevee.com/ and http://www.seattletimes.meevee.com/.

Visitors that click on the MeeVee experience within the sites will see video clips of TV programs and can search for local TV programming in real-time, by keyword, program, actor, or topic, In addition, MeeVee allows visitors to create a personalized guide and will surface new programs to their guide based on visitors' interests. Another unique feature is MeeVee's Internet TV directory and player, which allows visitors to browse for, and watch, the latest in Internet TV channels - all from within the partner sites.

"Delivering cutting edge entertainment services and more extensive regional listings has long been our hallmark and something our readers have come to expect from The Seattle Times," stated Stanley Farrar, managing editor, seattletimes.com. "With features such as rich media, more accurate programming data and an intuitive user interface, these listings are truly a next-stage offering that adds outstanding value to our online site."

"MeeVee's enhanced TV programming allows us to provide our visitors with more than just TV listings," said Debra Alward, general manager, post-gazette.com. "It's a whole new way to engage entertainment enthusiasts and keeps post-gazette.com at the forefront of technology capabilities."

Post-gazette.com and Seattletimes.com partnered with MeeVee in an effort to improve their TV listings guides and create a stickier user experience under the respective brands. With millions of unique visitors per month, each newspaper site offers the potential to drive additional advertising revenues for both web sites and MeeVee.

"We're tremendously pleased that two of the top independent newspaper web sites in the nation have selected our proprietary search and discovery service," said Michael Raneri, CEO of MeeVee. "These partnerships showcase MeeVee's ability deliver our extraordinary service in an off-the-shelf format, adding value to our partners' existing content and seeding new advertising revenue opportunities."

MeeVee offers its syndicated service for any content site seeking to offer its visitors a more robust TV listings search experience. For more information on MeeVee or to learn more about syndication partnerships, contact info@meevee.com.

About MeeVee

MeeVee, Inc., is the premier developer of personalized video entertainment search and discovery experiences for consumers on the Internet. MeeVee offers television viewers and video content enthusiasts a unique online community that provides a smarter, easier way to navigate and discover a growing universe of TV programming and video content. MeeVee's patented technology provides up-to-the-minute programming search capabilities and customized TV planning tools, to better track and monitor programming of interest. MeeVee also syndicates and licenses its television search and personalization service to leading newspaper portals, content providers and cable operators. For more details, please visit www.meevee.com.

About post-gazette.com

As an established, branded extension of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, post-gazette.com has been an online resource for western Pennsylvania since 1997. The Post-Gazette has served the Pittsburgh community, its readers and advertisers as the region's indispensable source of news, advertising and information for more than two centuries.

About seattletimes.com

Seattletimes.com is the market leader for online news about the Pacific Northwest. It is the internet voice of The Seattle Times, the largest daily newspaper in Washington state and the largest Sunday newspaper in the Northwest. Well respected for its comprehensive local coverage and a winner of seven Pulitzer Prizes, The Seattle Times is also recognized nationally and internationally for in-depth, quality reporting and award-winning photography and design.

Source: Business Wire

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