TVWORLDWIDE.COM
PRESS RELEASE
TVWorldwide.com Wins SBA Contract for Internet TV Training on
Entrepreneurs
with Disabilities
TVWorldwide.com's AbleTV Channel to Feature Case Studies of Selected
Entrepreneurs with Disabilities for Innovative SBA Education Program-
Details in Webcast Press Conference, Nov.8, 2PM EST at
http://www.abletv.net
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Contact: Beverly O'Brien Lorna Cunningham
TV Worldwide.com, Inc. U.S. Small Business
Administration (SBA)
[log in to unmask]
http://www.tvworldwide.com
(703) 961-9250 Ext. 222 (301) 713-3525 Ext. 213
Chantilly, Va. - TVWorldwide.com, a fast-growing web-based global TV
network
and streaming video service provider, announced today it had been
awarded a
contract by the U.S. Small Business Administration to develop innovative
Internet TV-based training to educate SBA administrators on the business
operations of successful entrepreneurs with disabilities. The program,
known
as the "Alpha Entrepreneur" project will research and interview
entrepreneurs with disabilities nationwide for selection as case studies
that will be featured in multi-media, robust Internet TV-based training
and
collaborative training manuals to educate SBA personnel. The
Internet-based
training will be fully accessible in compliance with Section 508
requirements featuring open-captioned video streaming or "webcapting"
developed by TVWorldwide.com and its affiliate channel, Able TV with
audio
description. In addition to Able TV, Your Communications LLC will be
supporting the TVWorldwide.com winning team.
"We're pleased to have been selected for this groundbreaking SBA
effort,"
commented Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TVWorldwide.com. "It is our
intent
to make the vision of the SBA's Disability Office a reality, and develop
a
comprehensive, accessible and interactive educational package that will
provide special insight into the culture and successful approaches of
entrepreneurs with disabilities."
Seventeen years after losing his eyesight to illness, AbleTV President
and
entrepreneur Jeff Pledger said he is proud to be part of this important
effort. "We are pleased that AbleTV can feature our capability to assist
in
this landmark endeavor," stated Pledger. "As a disabled entrepreneur,
myself, I am anxious to work on this to help others understand the
challenges and culture that business people with disabilities face in
growing their companies." The TVWorldwide.com/AbleTV team attracted
national
attention last year when it was contracted by the Democratic National
Committee to provide webcaptingsm services and stream the 2000
Democratic
Convention.
An interactive webcast press conference to discuss details of the
project is
scheduled for November 8, 2 PM EST as part of AbleTV's Internet TV
issues
program, "The Able Gang" at http://www.abletv.net. Viewers should have
the free
Real Player installed prior to the event and should log on by 1:45 PM on
the
8th.
In addition to the SBA site, when completed the Alpha Entrepreneur
program
will also be archived for viewing at http://www.abletv.net and
http://www.tvworldwide.com.
As a leading streaming video applications service provider,
TVWorldwide.com
works with strategic partners to develop the latest in live and archived
state-of-the art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com
is
also developing a network of video channels that is an affiliation of
community-based Internet television stations, each underwritten by a
strategic partner, "aimcastingsm" to targeted B2B and special interest
demographic audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com has worked with one of
its
first aimcast channels, AbleTV.net, to pioneer live and archived video
streaming with open captioning and audio description to aid in web site
accessibility for the disabled. With this advance, AbleTV.net received
its
charter sponsorship from Microsoft Corporation and is now the largest
archive on the Internet for captioned streaming video and streaming
video
programs on subjects relating to those with disabilities.
###
Dave Gardy
Chairman and CEO
TVWorldwide.com, Inc.
703 961-9250 ext.221
703 961-9255 fax
703 786-3067 cell
[log in to unmask]
VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
To join or leave the list, send a message to
[log in to unmask] In the body of the message, simply type
"subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations.
VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html
|