Ex-TVN Execs Launch VOD Content and Marketing Strategy Company

Filed in archive IPTV on April 23, 2005

TVN Entertainment Corporation is one of the largest privately held digital content aggregation, management, distribution, and service companies. Originally created in 1988 to bring multi-channel Pay-Per-View (PPV) movie service to subscribers, TVN now delivers Video-On-Demand (VOD) to millions of viewers.

A new VOD content and marketing strategy company, dubbed the On Demand Media Group (ODMG), has been formed by two ex-executives of TVN Entertainment. They are Neil Goldberg (who was formerly TVN's SVP of programming) and Beverly Doughty (who was TVN's SVP of marketing).

"Major studios, cable operators, phone companies and others are all developing their on-demand and streaming media services," said Goldberg, in a statement. "While everyone understands the opportunity, very few of these organizations have the luxury of focusing solely on VOD, and that's where we come in."

The company says that its services are being used by VOD content aggregator, Hot Vision (which is targeting the European market), and by Broad Line Media (which will is developing an IPTV service, dubbed "Lassoo," that is scheduled to launch later this year). ODMG will target business with cable operators, as well as IPTV, mobile and wireless service providers.