RealNetworks Joins the Media Ranks.
Multichannel News, November, 1999 by Arlen, Gary
Just what we need: another tool-maker that thinks it's a media company, aggregating and distributing on-demand content to a squinty-eyed audience. Yet that is what RealNetworks has become with the release of its "RealPlayer 7" -- and more particularly with the debut of "Take5," a daily audio and video magazine accessible through the new player.
RN is producing the showcase, which focuses on music, entertainment, "news" and specialty programming -- much of it aimed at the youth audience who adores this kind of material. Of course, the software also enables viewers to access "My Channels" and "Live Stations," which offer on-demand streaming audio and video from more than 100 programming sources such as ESPN, CNN, Fox and ABC News. Actually,...
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