It's Not Television, It's 'CHATTERVISION'
Noggin's New Interactive Way to Watch TV,
Chat Online and See the Chat Appear Live on TV
CHATTERVISION Premieres Monday, September 10 at 10:00 p.m. (ET)
Sep 05, 2001, 01:00 ET from Noggin
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Noggin, the educational network from Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop, presents CHATTERVISION, a new, interactive way for kids to watch television. CHATTERVISION premieres Monday, September 10 at 10:00 p.m. (ET) and airs regularly Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (ET) / 7:00 p.m. (PT) throughout the month of September. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010905/NYW067 ) Through unique custom software technology created exclusively for Noggin by Video Design Interactive, viewers can now watch television, chat online simultaneously at http://www.noggin.com and see their chat appear LIVE, in real time on Noggin. During each half-hour of CHATTERVISION, kids will see an encore presentation of an original show from Noggin's prime-time line-up. CHATTERVISION enables kids to go online to http://www.noggin.com and chat about the show they are watching, and see their chat appear LIVE on the top half of the TV screen while the show airs on the bottom half of the screen. Viewers do not need any special keyboard or equipment. CHATTERVISION gives viewers the opportunity to watch their favorite shows, ask questions, express their opinions, and see their thoughts on the TV screen. Every Monday night in September, Noggin's new interactive game show SPONK! will be featured in CHATTERVISION so viewers can chat live with SPONK! host Johnathan McClain and the kids from the show. Video Design Software, with its Graphics and Interactive Divisions and its partner company Video Design Systems are the leading developers of custom software and systems for the automated control of broadcast television systems, with an emphasis on graphics-related operations, content distribution and automation and Internet-to-video and video-to-Internet systems. With offices in New York and Toronto, VDS offers software products and systems for customer specific applications in the broadcast, cable television and Internet markets as well as off-the-shelf products for elections, stock market and financial interfaces, sports and racing statistics and data, cable and broadcast channel database interfaces, graphics localization and various Internet interfaces. Noggin currently reaches over 17 million households via cable, digital cable and satellite. Exploding the boundaries between television and online, Noggin is a unique interactive, 24-hour, commercial-free, educational network aimed at kids 2-12 years old. A joint venture from children's television pioneers Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop, the network's mission is to serve kids' natural desire to learn by creating a place where learning is driven by them. Noggin and the network's website at http://www.noggin.com, celebrate kids' natural excitement for learning by asking kids themselves to help shape the network's agenda and steer its content. MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT - Click Here http://tbutton.prnewswire.com/prn/11690X11470589
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