TV Guide Content Coming to Cingular Video

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6:00 am on April 16, 2006 | Category: Mobile Devices

Gemstar-TV Guide has reached an agreement with Cingular Wireless, which will allow them to provide enhanced TV listings content over Cingular’s streaming video network.

Cingular Video subscribers will now have access to an enhanced, on-demand version of TV Guide Channel, specially formulated for 3G mobile phones, as well as other products and services from Gemstar.

Specific terms of the deal were not released, but Gemstar-TV Guide did say that the deal with Cingular is intended to build upon and enhance the existing TV Guide Mobile service, and the forthcoming upgrade.

“As part of our goal to become the leading cross-platform consumer hub for video guidance, we are excited to be partnering with Cingular to offer consumers, who are passionate about television, access to exclusive TV Guide Channel content almost whenever and wherever they want it,” said Gemstar’s senior VP and general manager of Digital Media, Rich Cusick. “Enhancing the personal mobile entertainment experience of Cingular users across the country is in keeping with our strategy to integrate the TV Guide brand, content and technology across multiple platforms.”