NTN BUZZTIME, INC. ANNOUNCES 4 STRATEGIC PARTNERS FOR 25 YEARS OF SPORTS COMPETITION
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CARLSBAD, Calif. —NTN Buzztime, Inc. (NYSE Amex: NTN) the market leader in interactive venue-based sports, trivia and casual games announced today relationships with four online companies. These partnerships allow NTN Buzztime to create strategic cross-promotional opportunities for its 25 Years of Sports Trivia competition beginning this July 13, 2009. NTN Buzztime has partnered with these businesses:
The partnership arrangements contemplate advertising exchanges with NTN Buzztime. Additionally, each partner will help promote the 25 Years of Sports competition by embedding Buzztime’s qualifying game into their websites, thereby allowing visitors to earn qualifying points. “Collaboration with leading companies such as these helps Buzztime market to a technologically savvy and extremely important demographic that is essential for the success of our 25 Years of Sports promotion,” said NTN Buzztime’s CEO Terry Bateman. “We are confident that partnering with these online destinations will help us to achieve benchmark participation numbers for the 25 Years of Sports competition.” Buzztime’s 25 Years of Sports trivia challenge gives sports enthusiasts across the country the chance to compete in a sports trivia-themed competition featuring an unprecedented $250,000 in prizes. 18 trivia fan players will be awarded the trip of a lifetime to attend the Sports Legends Challenge held September 14-17, 2009 at Atlantis Paradise Island, Bahamas. Details about the 25 Years of Sports Trivia challenge are available at www.buzztime.com/25yos. About NTN Buzztime, Inc NTN Buzztime, Inc., a leader in interactive entertainment for 25 years, is based in Carlsbad, CA. Buzztime is distributed in-home and out-of-home across broadband platforms including online, mobile, satellite TV and in approximately 3,800 restaurants, sports bars and pubs throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.buzztime.com. Buzztime is a proud member of the OVAB |Out-of-home Video Advertising Bureau. Buzztime is a registered trademark of Buzztime Entertainment, Inc. and Playmaker is a registered trademark of NTN Buzztime, Inc. Forward-looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements which reflect management's current views of future events and operations including but not limited to trends in subscriber and player preference and engagement and results of marketing strategies. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include risks associated with our recent management transition, our significant losses, our ability to grow our out-of-home Buzztime iTV network and implement our other business strategies, the risk of changing economic conditions, failure of product demand or market acceptance of both existing and new products and services and the impact of competitive products and pricing. Please see NTN Buzztime, Inc.'s recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for information about these and other risks that may affect the Company. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based on information available to us on the date hereof. These statements speak only as of the date hereof, and NTN Buzztime, Inc. does not undertake to publicly update or revise any of its forward-looking statements, even if experience or future changes show that the indicated results or events will not be realized. # # # |