Weather Channel Using TVN's TVNow Service to Offer Katrina VOD Special

--Companies have Just Signed a Multi-Year VOD Services Agreement

VOD distribution services provider, TVN Entertainment, says that its TVNow rapid-turnaround service, which is designed to enable programs to be transformed into VOD assets within hours of their broadcast, is being used by The Weather Channel to offer a special VOD presentation of its coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The special presentation includes clips of Weather Channel meteorologists' coverage of the development of the hurricane from August 25th-29th, as well as video of the hurricane's landfall on the Gulf Coast, and its aftermath (note: some of the special's video footage did not air on The Weather Channel's linear channel).

TVN and The Weather Channel--which have just signed a multi-year VOD services agreement (note: The Weather Channel's VOD offering will be anchored by its signature series, "Storm Stories")--say that they decided to collaborate on the Hurricane Katrina special because of the "timing of the deal and public interest in the story."