Mobile TV World Forum and Digital Radio Show Announce Collaboration

February 6, 2007 - Junction, the leading digital media events specialist, has announced that two of its most successful events, the Mobile TV World Forum and Digital Radio Show, are joining forces on June 11-12 at Olympia, London. (www.mobiletv-forum.com, www.digital-radio-show.com). The show will host a free exhibition and is expecting over 1000 attendees.

Early confirmed speakers include: Gian Paolo Balboni, Senior Programme Manager TV and Multimedia for Telecom Italia; Ed Candy, Chief Technical Officer for Hutchison Whampoa Europe; Christoph Urban, Head of Mobile/Business Development for MTV Networks Europe; Nicholas Wheeler, Managing Director of ITN On; Melissa Goodwin, Head of Mobile for ITV; Henrik Rinnert, Managing Director of MFD Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH; Peter Davies, Director of Radio and Multimedia for Ofcom; James Cridland, Digital Media Director for Virgin Radio; and Quentin Howard, President of WorldBAB.

Ian Johnson, Managing Director of Junction, Ltd, commented; “Visual Radio looks like a killer application, especially for those targeting youth markets. This, along with mobile TV, is an example of the power of mobile phones as radio and television devices. The Digital Radio Show and Mobile TV World Forum have combined in order to provide a detailed overview and address the potential power of these two markets.”

About Mobile TV World Forum and the Digital Radio Show

The Mobile TV World Forum aims to provide the discussion forum, networking opportunities and exhibition space that this new digital TV platform needs. It will address key issues surrounding consumer attitudes and behaviour towards video on mobiles, service propositions and content offerings, business models and value chains, transmission technologies and standards, content production, interactivity, advertising, regulation and much more.

Radio is not just becoming an interactive medium: it is also becoming increasingly visual, and platform operators and supporters of DAB or DMB broadcasting must address the threat of Visual Radio on mobile phones, which receives ordinary FM signals into the handsets and synchronises them with WAP/GPRS connections via the mobile network to deliver enhanced data including colour images of artists, station logos or products that are being advertised. The Digital Radio Show 2007 will take a detailed look at the emergence of Visual Radio as a potential threat to digital radio and as a model that could be replicated on digital radio platforms.

Digital Radio Show – www.digital-radio-show.com   11th-12th June 2007                      

Mobile TV World Forum – www.mobiletv-forum.com 11th-12th June 2007

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