GRAND FORKS, N.D. - The University of North Dakota athletics department and leading technology service provider NeuLion, Inc. (TSX: NLN) today announced a new online video streaming service available to UND.
The new digital service, branded 'UND Insider,' will take advantage of NeuLion's industry leadership in sports video delivery. UND fans will enjoy a new online experience that offers enhancements in video quality, plus interactive features that give fans a chance to follow the school's athletics more closely through pause and rewind of live streams, highlights, chat and exclusive content 24/7.
UND Insider is the rebranded premium service previously known as SIOUXtra. All existing accounts, logins/passwords and packages will remain active.
"The added features, quality of viewing experience and benefits and will keep fans connected to North Dakota sports more than ever before," said Chris Wagner, executive vice president of NeuLion. "The video center is another step in the rapid, continual growth in scope and viewership of the school's athletics."
The NeuLion Platform also provides UND with new opportunities to expand digital revenue with a video syndication player that will be offered to website providers targeting UND fans.
"As we continue to grow our video coverage on FightingSioux.com, we found it important to upgrade our streaming portal," said Matt Schill, new media editor for UND athletics. "Moreover, fans can expect us to continue to optimize and enhance FightingSioux.com as we try to provide UND fans with the best coverage of Fighting Sioux athletics on the Internet."
About NeuLion
Based in Plainview, NY, Sanford, Florida and Toronto, Ontario, NeuLion (TSX:NLN) works with content partners to develop end-to-end solutions for multimedia IPTV services. The NeuLion IPTV Platform encodes, delivers, stores and manages an unlimited range of multimedia content and the Operational Support System (OSS) maintains all billing and customer support services. Content partners are responsible for content aggregation and the sales and marketing for the individual IPTV service. The Company ranks as a world leader in customer/partner relationships with sports, international and specialty television content partners including, in sports, the NHL, the NFL, MLS, and NCAA Division I schools and conferences and, in respect to international and specialty television aggregators and networks, KyLinTV (Chinese), ABS-CBN (Filipino), Talfazat and Talfazat-ART (Arabic), TV-Desi (South Asian) and Sky Angel (Christian). Customer/partner content can be viewed by way of the Internet on PCs and mobile devices and on the television through the Company's IPTV set top box.
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