ABC.com, the Official Web Site of the Primetime Emmy Awards, Worked with Akamai to Provide Exclusive Streaming Video Content on Emmy Night
Cambridge, MA, September 11, 2000 - ABC.com, part of Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG) and the official Web site of this year's Primetime Emmy Awards, provided in conjunction with Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), several streaming video elements on Sunday, September 10, the night of the Primetime Emmy Awards.
Live streaming video featured on ABC.com before, during and immediately following the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast included a live streaming webcast of the red carpet arrivals, hosted by Emmy-Award winning Linda Dano, who interviewed all of the celebrities arriving and later provided live backstage interviews with all of the winners and celebrity presenters.
ABC.com utilized Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service and global network of over 4,200 servers to enable its users access to all of the streaming media and to deliver the live event to a worldwide online audience. Akamai also provided on-site encoding and signal acquisition services for the live webcast.
The 52nd Annual Primetime EMMY Awards, for outstanding programs and individual achievements in television during 1999-2000, was broadcast live on the ABC Television Network Sunday, Sept. 10, from 8-11 p.m. ET (5-8 p.m. PT). Garry Shandling, noted funnyman/actor/comic/series star, hosted the Emmy Awards 2000 telecast. For more about the Primetime Emmy Awards, log onto abc.com.
About ABC.com
ABC.com is part of Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG), which manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, ESPN.com, Family.com, GO.com, Movies.com, Mr. Showbiz, NASCAR Online, NBA.com, NFL.com and Soccernet. The Internet Group also includes The Walt Disney Company's direct marketing business. Steve Bornstein is chairman of Walt Disney Internet Group, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., with operations in Sunnyvale, Calif.; Seattle; New York; Bristol, Conn.; and London. For more information, visit our Web site at www.dig.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Caryn Converse Akamai Technologies 617-250-4661 converse@akamai.com |
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Cambridge, MA, September 11, 2000 - ABC.com, part of Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG) and the official Web site of this year's Primetime Emmy Awards, provided in conjunction with Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM), several streaming video elements on Sunday, September 10, the night of the Primetime Emmy Awards.
Live streaming video featured on ABC.com before, during and immediately following the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast included a live streaming webcast of the red carpet arrivals, hosted by Emmy-Award winning Linda Dano, who interviewed all of the celebrities arriving and later provided live backstage interviews with all of the winners and celebrity presenters.
ABC.com utilized Akamai's FreeFlowSM Streaming service and global network of over 4,200 servers to enable its users access to all of the streaming media and to deliver the live event to a worldwide online audience. Akamai also provided on-site encoding and signal acquisition services for the live webcast.
The 52nd Annual Primetime EMMY Awards, for outstanding programs and individual achievements in television during 1999-2000, was broadcast live on the ABC Television Network Sunday, Sept. 10, from 8-11 p.m. ET (5-8 p.m. PT). Garry Shandling, noted funnyman/actor/comic/series star, hosted the Emmy Awards 2000 telecast. For more about the Primetime Emmy Awards, log onto abc.com.
About ABC.com
ABC.com is part of Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG), which manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, ESPN.com, Family.com, GO.com, Movies.com, Mr. Showbiz, NASCAR Online, NBA.com, NFL.com and Soccernet. The Internet Group also includes The Walt Disney Company's direct marketing business. Steve Bornstein is chairman of Walt Disney Internet Group, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., with operations in Sunnyvale, Calif.; Seattle; New York; Bristol, Conn.; and London. For more information, visit our Web site at www.dig.com.
About Akamai
Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 2,100 customers. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,200 servers in 50 countries directly connected to 225 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.
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Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
