New York, NY, January 5, 2010
TV Guide Magazine, the nation’s premier television entertainment magazine with over 20 million readers, has partnered with Kaltura, developer of the first open source online video platform, to power video on www.tvguidemagazine.com. TV Guide Magazine has selected Kaltura’s full video management platform to upload, manage, display, schedule and publish its video content.
“We are delighted to partner with Kaltura to enhance our video offerings on-line” said Ajay Singh, SVP Strategy & Business Development at TV Guide Magazine. “TV Guide Magazine’s access to the entertainment world allows us to deliver engaging behind-the-scenes videos to our audience. Kaltura has much to offer and their platform is best suited for our needs.”
“TV Guide Magazine is one of the most recognized and trusted publications in the nation, and we are thrilled to have been selected by them to power video on the website” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. “TV Guide Magazine is joining hundreds of other publishers who are adopting Kaltura’s platform every week.”
About TV Guide Magazine
TV GUIDE MAGAZINE is one of the most popular weekly magazines in the country with more than 20 million weekly readers. From behind-the-scenes looks at broadcast, cable, and syndicated shows and their stars and characters, to sneak peeks at television’s most intriguing plotlines, TV GUIDE MAGAZINE has every corner of the television medium covered. TV GUIDE MAGAZINE is the premier source for entertainment news, guidance, and information about America’s most popular leisure time activity. Its website, tvguidemagazine.com, ignites conversation and builds community around America’s #1 leisure activity with our exclusive behind-the-scenes access, authoritative insight, breaking news and reviews. tvguidemagazine.com guides viewers to the best of television, covering the shows and the moments everyone will be talking about, and empowers readers to make informed decisions, maximizing their viewing experience. For more information go to www.tvguidemagazine.com.
Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform. With more than 45,000 active publishers, Kaltura’s flexible framework empowers any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura’s open source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages for leading platforms – such as Drupal, WordPress, MindTouch, Moodle and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards, such as Microsoft and TheMarker’s ‘Most Promising Start-up in Israel’ for 2009, TechCrunch40 People’s Choice award, Mashable’s ‘Open Web’ award, AlwaysOn’s top 250 global company and top 100 media company awards, and TV Week’s 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009.
Lisa Bennett
Kaltura
(212) 981-3965
lisa.bennett@kaltura.com
Shari Kaufman
SKPR
(818) 591-1667
shari@sk-pr.com