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STV Awarded Streaming Media Contract by Times Mirror; Project Now Underway Involves Greater Los Angeles Auto Show

7 January 2000

STV Awarded Streaming Media Contract by Times Mirror; Project Now Underway Involves Greater Los Angeles Auto Show

    LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 -- STV, a privately held streaming media
company, has received a one-year contract from Times Mirror Corporation
to provide a full range of Internet streaming media services over
the Los Angeles Times' Web site.  Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
    STV's first project is producing three-minute clips every 45 minutes
during the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, which runs from Jan. 6 through Jan.
16 at the downtown Convention Center.  These clips are Webcast in near real
time at two Web sites, LATimes.com and Cars.com.
    The clips include new model introductions by Acura, Audi, BMW, Lexus,
Mazda, Porsche and Pontiac, as well as concept cars from DaimlerChrysler, Ford
Motor, General Motors and Saturn.
    "We are providing a turnkey package to The Times," said Jan Brzeski,
chairman and chief executive of STV.  "This includes on-site production work
as well as encoding and streaming.  This project firmly establishes STV as
fully competent to provide streaming media services at conventions and
expositions."
    Steve Lacy, electronic editor-new media at the Los Angeles Times, said the
Times is arranging to make the streaming media clips available on demand at
the Times' Website.
    "We see value beyond the run of the show," he said.
    Lacy said STV was selected to provide streaming media services because of
the thoroughness shown by the company in evaluating the Times' needs and
because "STV is servicing live sites featuring streaming audio and video
content right now."
    STV Communications, Inc., is known in the marketplace as STV Streaming
Media.  It was founded in 1994 and is based in Santa Monica.