Co. at a Glance: GEMSTAR -TV GUIDE INTERACTIVE
Co. Name: www.tvguideinc.com
Headquarters:
TV Guide Interactive, 7140 South Lewis Avenue; Tulsa, OK 74136-5422
Ph: 800-291-9034; Fax: 918-488-4250;
Gary Gamino, Director, Investor Relations
Tel: 918-488-4336; Email: Gary.Gamino@tvguide.com
Ownership: Public: NASDAQ GMST (Gemstar-TVGuide International Inc)
Tech. Category: On-Screen Guide
Mission:
Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., is a leading global technology and media company focused on consumer entertainment. The Company has four major business sectors: the Technology and Licensing Sector, the Interactive Platform Sector, the Media and Services Sector, and the Investments & Holdings Sector.
The IPG is built into televisions, VCRs or set top boxes (cable, satellite, telco, Internet) and presents a multi-day television program guide on the television screen from which the consumer can view, select, tune to or record programs. TV Guide Interactive is the brand name for the company’s on-screen, remote-controlled program guide for digital cable. It allows the viewer to search for programs by keywords, view program listings by genre, time, set up program reminders, etc.
Products/Services:
the VCR Plus+® system, the interactive program guide ("IPG") marketed under the GUIDE Plus+® and TV Guide InteractiveSM brands and the electronic book (``eBook''); TV Guide® magazines, TV Guide ChannelSM; startup Television Games Network.
Deployment:
TV Guide Interactive is currently available to over 3.2 million digital cable subscribers in select cable systems throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico and growing by nearly 10,000 subscribers each week. (Gemstar-TVGuide’s media properties reach over 100 million U.S. homes on a weekly basis; its products and services are available in over 50 countries worldwide.)
Customers:
Licensees and customers include AOL, AT&T, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DirecTV, Dish Network, Matsushita, Microsoft, Philips, Sony, Time Warner, Thomson multimedia, Zenith
Press Links:
www.tvguideinc.com/press/pressroom.asp
10/16/00 Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. and Motorola, Inc. Announce Long Term Licensing Agreement & Settlement of Arbitration & Litigation
03/17/00 Gemstar Intl Group Ltd and TV Guide, Inc. Shareholders Approve Merger
01/27/00 Gemstar and Thomson Multimedia to pursue opportunities in interactive television with "@TV Media" joint venture
01/27/00 Gemstar and Thomson Multimedia to pursue IPG opportunites in Europe