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PHOTO AVAILABLE: Desktopbox, Leafs TV And Dome Productions Let Viewers Fish Deeper With Full Contact Fishing Interactive

Full Contact Fishing- The World's First Interactive Fishing Show

Leafs TV's special season of "Full Contact Fishing" is taking interactivity to a whole new level. Starting Saturday, January 7, 2006 viewers can interact with "Full Contact Fishing" online. Enabled by Desktopbox Interactive, "Full Contact Fishing" allows viewers to use home computers to interact with synchronized content related to on-air programming and advertising.

Using search and advertising technologies to enhance users' television viewing experience, Desktopbox software automatically selects web pages a user might want to see while watching a televsion program. Online, viewers are able to surf as they receive query free searches, trivia, polls and fishing information. With VOD PVR players, viewers can interact even further with exclusive bonus content.

"We know our viewers are hungry for new ways to interact with our programming," said "Full Contact Fishing" host Kris King. "This cross-platform experience allows us to expand our content and give benefits for our advertising partners."

"We're witnessing an increased demand from broadcast providers for solutions that extend their programming across broadband platforms," added Mike Church, president of Desktopbox. "Our work with Leafs TV and 'Full Contact Fishing' not only combines the leading distribution channels but also enhances the on-air programming through synchronized interactivity."

"The consumer television viewing experience is rapidly evolving and Dome Productions is leading the way with eTV, to connect Canadians to the power and simplicity of enhanced television," says Bruce Gaum, manager of technology and new business development at Dome. "The growing popularity of eTV is a sign that Dome customers are eager to discover new services and content which turn the traditional internet connected PC into a tool that controls a more compelling viewing experience."

About Desktopbox Interactive

Desktopbox develops and sells products and productions that create, manage and deliver digital and interactive media in convergence systems. Desktopbox Interactive's customers include media and distribution companies as well as television networks and individual programs.

About Dome Productions

Since its inception in 1989, Dome Productions has earned an international reputation for excellence in service quality and innovation providing comprehensive television production facilities and distribution services to Canadian, American and international clients. Dome Productions is the Canada's largest provider of mobile production facilities with eight mobile units including two multi-format HD mobile units plus a HD multi format flyaway production pack.

For more information, visit www.domeproductions.com.

About Kris King - Host of "Full Contact Fishing"

Kris King's NHL career stats:

-66 goals
-85 assists
-849 games
-2030 penalty minutes

Each week King is joined by a different celebrity all-star angler as they fish the hot-spots of the western aemisphere.

"Full Contact Fishing" - Lots of fish, lots of fun and thankfully, no refs.

For more information, visit www.fullcontactfishing.com.

     
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