NEW YORK, April 24, 2000 (PRIMEZONE) -- Medium4.com(tm) (OTCBB:MDMM) The Home of InternetOnlyTV(tm) and the Internet's leading aggregator of English language world video news coverage, today added France's TF-1 channel to its already impressive aggregation of on-demand international news broadcasts. Medium4.com's WorldNewsTV.com(tm) (http://www.worldnewstv.com) channel now hosts daily English language news broadcasts from Europe, Asia and the Middle East, providing an invaluable service to its Internet audience looking for the latest broadcast information from around the world.
Starting Monday, April 24th, Internet users will be able to watch daily English-language video news from France on WorldNewsTV.com(tm) (www.worldnewstv.com), part of the Medium4.com's ForeignTV.com(tm) Network (http://www.foreigntv.com). The addition of the French broadcast adds nearly 20 hours a month of original programming to Medium4.com's hundreds of hours of streaming video broadcast each month.
"Americans have had a deep and abiding interest in France and its people for more than 200 years," said Jonathan Braun, CEO of Medium4.com(tm). "Our English language broadcasts of TF-1, the leading French broadcaster, will allow our hundreds of thousands of viewers an unique daily window into the people, politics and culture of one of the word's most important and influential countries."
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WorldNewsTV.com(tm) is the exclusive broadcaster of daily Worldcasts, in English, from broadcasters around the globe; international headline video news from Reuters; exclusive world interviews from Peter Arnett; insider news from the United Nations with Ian Williams as well as special online video coverage of newsmaker events at the Council on Foreign Relations. It is one of 12 channels on the ForeignTV.com(tm) network, one of five InternetOnlyTV(tm) networks under the Medium4.com(tm) umbrella, which include StreamingUSA.com(tm) (www.streamingusa.com), NicheTV.com(tm) (www.nicheTV.com), Medium4Music.com(tm) (www.medium4music.com). And Medium4Latino.com (www.medium4latino.com). In all nearly 40 channels are available on the networks.
TF1 (Télévision Française 1) is one of the leading generalist TV channels in Europe, and is the highest rated general public channel in France in terms of audience and advertising revenues. It is also an integrated communication group with diversification activities that include a highly developed Internet strategy known as e-TF1. In 1998, TF1 reinforced its position as leadership position attracting 35.3 percent of individuals aged over 14 years old as well as 37.6 percent of women aged under 50.
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