Viseon and FOX TV Station See New Use for the VisiFone
Dallas - Viseon, Inc. (OTCBB: VSNI), a global developer and provider of broadband personal video communications solutions, today announced that FOX TV station WJW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio has purchased the VisiFone™ broadband videophone for use in the station’s news reporting.
“The use of the VisiFone could revolutionize how news is sourced and reported. Networks, television stations and programmers will use the VisiFone for remote news event broadcasting such as we witnessed live from the Iraq conflict. Now they can also report instantly from any location that has terrestrial broadband access or via the rapidly growing Wi-Fi wireless networks,” said John Harris, Viseon’s president and CEO. “Just as we now have viewers calling into television programs on telephones, soon they will be live on video and audio using the patented VisiFone.”
WJW TV is a unit of Fox Television Stations, Inc. a part of Fox Entertainment Group, Inc. Fox is principally engaged in the development, production and worldwide distribution of feature films and television programs, television broadcasting and cable network programming. Fox had total assets as of March 31, 2003 of approximately US $23 Billion and total annual revenues of approximately US $11 Billion.