GlobeNewswire
2010-03-12
Multi-Channel Streamed Mobile TV Service KOX TV Now Available
to Russian Subscribers
LONDON and MOSCOW, March 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ROK Entertainment
Group, the UK-based mobile technologies, applications and services
company, and KOX TV, the Russian-based mobile TV service company, have
today announced the launch of a carrier-agnostic streamed mobile TV
service in Russia, branded KOX TV.
Available as a carrier-agnostic subscription service and aimed at those
customers of Russian operators Beeline, Megafone, MTS and Tele2, who
have a data package included in their mobile tariff, KOX TV comprises
12 looped and on-demand TV channels and is priced at 247 (include VAT)
Rubles per month (approximately USD $8.23 per month) with the first 2
weeks viewing free of subscription charge.
There are 6 Russian-language TV channels in the KOX TV content line-up
to include Авто + (Auto +),
Антимульт
(Antimult TV), Комедия
ТВ (Comedy TV),
Русская
Ночь (Russian Night), and Ocean TV, Music Box
Russia and 6 English-language TV channels, including Future Shorts,
X-Fighters, Bollywood News, Eye Music Network and ROK Tube.
Subscribers are able to purchase KOX TV by visiting the website:
www.kox-tv.ru
"We are delighted to be launching the first ever carrier-agnostic
streamed mobile TV service in Russia," said Jonathan Kendrick, "which
we have done in response to our expectation of significant demand for
live and on-demand mass-market mobile TV in that country from the
ever-growing number of people with compatible handsets and a data
package included in their mobile tariff."
ROK, best known for its award-winning high quality streamed mobile TV
service ROK TV, licenses its suite of revenue-generating mobile
technologies to mobile operators and handsets worldwide.
About ROK:
Founded in 2004, ROK Entertainment Group is a mobile technologies,
applications and services development company with a suite of
revenue-generating mobile services which it licenses to Mobile
Operators and Handset Manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in the UK,
ROK is best known for its award-winning mobile TV services which
streams video -- live and on demand -- over 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi(R). In
addition, ROK has 5 patent awards and many more patent applications in
place. For more information, please visit: www.rokent.com
The ROK Entertainment Group logo is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=5361
Forward-Looking Statement:
The information contained in this news release, other than historical
information, consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from those described in these statements. Forward-looking statements
regarding the timing of developing, testing and releasing existing and
new products, of marketing and selling them, of deriving revenues and
profits from them, as well as the effects of those revenues and profits
on the Group's margins and financial position, are uncertain because
many of the factors affecting the timing of those items are beyond the
Group's control.
CONTACT: ROK Entertainment Group Inc.
Bruce Renny
+44 (0)1902 374 896
bruce.renny@rokent.com