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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Iomega Partners With Television.com
For Club Iomega
ROY, Utah,
December 4, 2000 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE:
IOM), a global leader in data management solutions,
recently welcomed television.com as an initial partner
in providing unique content to Club Iomega, the company's
recently announced multimedia content site.
Early last month, Club Iomega launched
a television.com sweepstakes offering the chance to
win a day on the set of the new syndicated one-hour
show, Andromeda, starring Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) and
Lexa Doig (Andromeda) and created by Gene Roddenberry
(Star Trek). The winner and guest will be flown to Vancouver
to spend a day on the set with the cast and crew of
the show; and enjoy a day of sightseeing, with $200
a day as part of the prize.
"television.com serves as a
portal to the rapidly growing segment of online TV content,
which is why we are excited to provide members with
an exclusive television.com contribution to Club Iomega,"
said Germaine Ward, vice president, software and eBusiness
solutions, Iomega Corporation. "The sweepstakes
is a great way to introduce Club Iomega to our customers."
Iomega and television.com launched
their partnership at one of the industry's top tradeshows,
Comdex, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lexa Doig, who plays
Andromeda Ascendant, appeared at the booth to promote
the show, sign autographs, and take photos with guests.
The photos were displayed at the booth on Iomega's FotoShow(tm)
digital image center, and also retrievable online at
www.television.com/iomega/comdex.
Zip disks destined for retail sales
worldwide, will also contain a link to Club Iomega beginning
in January. Shipping nearly five million disks a month,
Iomega offers television.com the opportunity to reach
a broad customer base.
The Andromeda Sweepstakes will be
the first of three promotions television.com and Club
Iomega will offer over the next few months. "Because
of our unique position as an online resource for everything
about television, and our solid partnerships with broadcast
and cable networks, we are able to work with brand marketers
to bring them exciting television content," said
Wendy Winks, vice president of corporate marketing and
partnerships, television.com.
The relationship between Iomega and
television.com also extends to the television.com Web
site, where Iomega will be the presenting sponsor of
TV2K, a section dedicated to convergence and new television
technologies.
About Television.com
television.com, the new way to connect to the world
of television, is the definitive Internet destination
for all things television-related. The interactive site
offers information, products, customized home pages,
as well as original and aggregated entertainment content.
From buying tee-shirts from your favorite show, to finding
out more about HDTV, to testing your trivia skills against
other "I Love Lucy" fans, television.com covers
the world of television past, present and future. Steeplechase
Media, Inc. and Marketvision Direct, Inc. formed the
company in 1999. For additional information about television.com,
please visit our website at www.television.com, or call
310-826-1510 ext. 129.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) manufactures and markets
the award-winning Zip(, Jaz( and PocketZip( drives and
disks, the HipZip(tm) digital audio player, the FotoShow(tm)
digital image center, and Iomega Quik Sync 2 software;
Iomega also markets Iomega CD-RW drives and discs. Iomega's
products help people to save, share, manage and create
important information such as Internet downloads, audio
files, personal photographs, spreadsheets, and slides,
while protecting that content from viruses and hackers.
Used in homes, businesses, government and educational
facilities and by creative professionals everywhere,
Iomega storage solutions are the enabling technologies
preferred by millions. The Company can be reached at
1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com.
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Special Note: The statements in this
release relating to Club Iomega and Iomega's content
providers or the expected benefits from this new product,
new distribution, merchandising and advertising are
forward-looking statements. There are a number of important
factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those suggested, implied or
indicated by such forward-looking statements, including,
but not limited to: retail and OEM market acceptance
of and demand for the Company's existing and new products,
general market demand for PCs and consumer electronics
products, the Company's success in timely producing
and marketing its products, ability to maintain stringent
quality assurance standards and enhanced customer service,
availability of critical product components, success
of the Company's new marketing initiatives, manufacturing
and inventory issues, dependence upon third-party providers
of the media content, intellectual property rights,
competition, litigation, general economic and/or industry-specific
conditions and the other factors described in Iomega's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 1999, and its most recent quarterly reports filed
with the SEC. Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation
to update any formal statements as a result of developments
occurring after the date of this press release.
Copyright (c) 2000 Iomega Corporation.
Iomega, Zip, PocketZip, HipZip, and FotoShow are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of Iomega Corporation
in the United States and/or other countries.
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