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Psychic TV expands to the US
Psychic TV expands to the US.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n TV Commerce Holdings PLC\n07 November 2005\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n TV Commerce Holdings plc\n\n 'TV Commerce' or the 'Company'\n\n\n\n Launch of Your Destiny USA and Telephony Services in USA\n\n\n\n\n\nTV Commerce (TVC), the AIM listed media and entertainment company, is pleased to\nannounce it has successfully launched Your Destiny Psychic Television in the\nUSA. Initially, four 30-minute shows have been produced and are being aired\nthroughout the USA on National Cable, on channels including Inspirational\nNetwork, Oxygen and Country Music Television, which alone reaches 67.7 million\nsubscribers. The programs will also be aired on 24 major local channels covering\nNew York, New York; Denver, Colorado; Las Vegas, Nevada; Detroit, Michigan;\nChicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; and Tampa, Florida.\n\n\nThe shows were produced at the Company's UK studios. They are hosted by Yasmin\nKhan and Jemma Buckley and feature well known British psychic and medium Melayn\nStone.\n\n\nIt is intended that revenues will be generated via psychic readings sold to\nviewers on screen and paid for via credit card or premium rate SMS text\nservices. American viewer's call a freephone number which is then transferred to\nthe UK were a live operator will take details and arrange for a UK based psychic\nto give a reading based on the amount of time purchased. The telephony\ntechnology platform has been provided by our existing UK partner Stream Group\nand the service is available 24 hours a day\n\n\n\nLIVE 85588\n\nSimultaneously with the television launch the Company is also pleased to\nannounce its entry into American premium rate text market, initially with the\npsychic chat format. With immediate effect, cellphone users on Cingular\n(including AT&T), Verizon, T-Mobile, Nextel and Boost can send a text message to\na psychic and receive an answer from a live psychic 24 hours a day without\nusing cable TV. Based on our UK traffic and market analysis the company would\nexpect at least 50,000 new messages per month to be generated. Setting up a USA\npremium text service has been a complex procedure and has taken over 6 months,\nand TV Commerce's partners Requestec have successfully overcome many barriers.\nStarting other services such as text dating in the USA will not require us to\ndevote the same amount of time and resources again.\n\n\nTV Commerce ...