YOUBET.COM AND TVG FORM STRATEGIC
RELATIONSHIP
Auto Channel -- Robert Gordon, Co-Publisher
ON THE SCENE PROCUTIONS PRESENTS A VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS PACKAGE
………AND THEY’RE OFF!
YOUBET.COM AND TVG FORM
STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP
Leading Online Live Event and Wagering Company
Establishes Track Content and License Agreement With
24-Hour Interactive Horse Racing Network
Monday, May 21, 2001
4:30 AM – 4:45 AM ET & 10:00 AM –10:15 AM ET
TELSTAR 6 / TRANSPONDER 11 C-BAND
DL Freq: 3920 V; Audio: 6.2/6.8
Youbet.com, Inc. , the leading online live event and wagering
company for the horse racing industry, today announced the formation of a
strategic relationship with TVG, an agreement that substantially widens
Youbet.com’s market penetration and opportunities for growth. Youbet Network
subscribers will now have online wagering accessibility to virtually all of the
industry’s premier racetrack content.
TVG is the 24-hour interactive horse racing network available nationwide on
cable and satellite systems with exclusive simulcast and interactive wagering
rights to live racing from leading racetracks in the U.S. The agreement gives
Youbet.com a non-exclusive license to utilize TVG’s patented wagering technology
and a non-exclusive right to video stream and accept online pari-mutuel wagers
on horse racing from virtually all of TVG’s exclusive partner racetracks.
Youbet.com will make these tracks available to Youbet Network subscribers
concurrent with the Company’s operation of a new Oregon-based hub for the
acceptance and placement of wagers, expected to commence within the next several
months.
Youbet.com and TVG have agreed to cross-promote the Youbet and TVG brands.
Additionally, upon exercise of the warrants, TVG will have the right to be
represented with substantially proportional membership on Youbet.com’s Board of
Directors.
Youbet.com has received approval by the Oregon Racing Commission for a
Multi-Jurisdictional license to operate a licensed online pari-mutuel wagering
facility located in Oregon. Presently, TVG partners with NTRA Services, LLC, a
for-profit subsidiary of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (“NTRA”),
the “league office” and central marketing organization for thoroughbred horse
racing in the U.S., to operate an Oregon-based hub for the acceptance and
placement of wagers at TVG partner racetracks.
Highlights:
· Substantially Widens Youbet.com’s Market Penetration with Online Access
to Additional 45% of Industry’s Total Handle
· Expands Youbet Network to Virtually all of the Industry’s Premier
Racetrack Content
· Positions Youbet.com as Industry Leader for Both Technology and Content
· Youbet and TVG to Cross-License and Promote Technologies and Services
· Youbet.com Receives Licensing Approval to Operate Oregon-based Hub
For more information, please contact Pearson Brown at 323-930-5837 or
pbrown@onthescene.com.
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