- ABS-CBN Interactive
"ABS-CBN Interactive" is the
multimedia and interactive subsidiary ofABS-CBN . It was originally part of ABS-CBN's IT department as the Interactive Media Group (IMG). Then in 1999, headed by its newly-appointed managing director Carlo Katigbak, it was officially established to manage and grow ABS-CBN's websites as well as to venture into other forms of new media.Together with its sister company's TV Production team, ABS-CBN Interactive's mobile business started out with the game show,
Game KNB? , where TV audiences can join through their mobile phones. From there, the company began offering other forms of mobile value-added services with content sourced from ABS-CBN and its subsidiaries as well as other third-party content suppliers and aggregators.The company, in partnership with ABS-CBN Global Ltd, also offers online video streaming with the brand TFC Now! With this service, ABS-CBN audience from around the world can subscribe and watch their favorite ABS-CBN shows anytime via the internet.
ABS-CBN Interactive formed a subsidiary, ABS-CBN Multimedia, to handle their
massively multiplayer online role-playing game business. They first offered a game made by Hanbitsoft of Korea to the market -Tantra Online . After two years, they offered two new games -War Rock and Get Amped.ee also
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ABS-CBN
* Philippine television networksExternal links
* [http://www.abs-cbn.com/ ABS-CBN Interactive]
* [http://now.abs-cbn.com/ TFC Now!]
* [http://www.tantra.ph/ Tantra]
* [http://www.amped.ph/ Amped]
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