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TVWorldwide.com Selected to Webcast Council for Exceptional Children Convention on AT508.com Internet TV Channel

Webcast to Highlight Interviews and ‘Yes I Can!’ Events, Live from April 11-12 CEC Show in Seattle on AT508.com Internet TV Channel Featuring John Williams

For Immediate Release
Thursday, April 10, 2003

Chantilly, Va. – TVWorldwide.com, a fast-growing web-based global TV network and streaming video service provider, announced that it had been selected by the Council for Exceptional Children to webcast the April 11-12, 2003 show live from Seattle, Washington. Special events featured by the Yes I Can! Foundation for Exceptional Children will also be covered. The free webcast at www.AT508.com and www.tvworldwide.com will feature interviews with industry leaders present for the show and highlight the latest products, services, issues and news concerning those who work with students with special needs. TVWorldwide’s AT508.com Internet TV channel was launched in October at the World Congress on Disabilities in Orlando, Fla, featuring world-renowned disability columnist John Williams covering the latest in assistive technology and Section 508 news and since then has webcast the TASH, ATIA and CSUN events for the community of people with disabilities. AT508.com will feature keynotes, presentations and interviews with exhibitors and speakers during the CEC webcast. The event will be archived in fully accessible format using the captioned video streaming of TVWorldwide.com’s “webcaptingsm” process. Webcast and AT508.com sponsors include The Paciello Group, Keybowl, HP, Kurzweil Educatonal Systems, Deque, Audio Eye, Sighted Electronics and Vcom3D.

As part of the webcast, the following Yes I Can! events will be recorded live to tape and archived for later viewing during the webcast.

  • The Yes I Can! Awards April 11th 4:30pm Washington State Convention Center, room 6A
  • The Yes I Can! Award Reception Following the Awards April 11th 5:30 Washington State Convention Center,
    Room 604
  • The Teacher of the Year Luncheon and Awards April 12 11:30 - 1:30 West Ballroom of the Washington Sheraton

    Visitors to the live CEC webcast will be able to post questions to interviewees and participate in Q&A via e-mail, providing a fully interactive forum for sharing of information.

“As a long-time advocate of streaming media for those with disabilities through our AbleTV.net Internet TV channel, we are excited about being selected to webcast the important CEC event,” commented Dave Gardy, Chairman and CEO of TVWorldwide.com. “This is also a great venue to again feature our new Internet TV channel, AT508.com, featuring the incisive and uncensored text and video commentary of highly-respected columnist John Williams who, himself, coined the phrase ‘assistive technology’. He has a huge audience and we are preparing our servers to accommodate it as we build AT508.com.”

The event will be archived for viewing at www.tvworldwide.com and www.AT508.com. Participants should have the free Real Video Player installed prior to the event and should log on by 4:15 PM PST on Friday, April 11.

About AT508.com
TVWorldwide’s AT508.com Internet TV channel was launched in October at the World Congress on Disabilities in Orlando, Fla, featuring world-renowned disability columnist John Williams covering the latest in assistive technology and Section 508 news and since then has webcast the TASH, ATIA, CSUN and CEC events for the community of people with disabilities. AT508.com features articles and videos on the latest in assistive technology products, services and issues and during trade show events, highlights keynotes, presentations and interviews with exhibitors and speakers. AT508.com events are webcast live and archived in fully accessible format using the captioned video streaming of TVWorldwide.com’s “webcaptingsm” process. AT508.com sponsors include The Paciello Group, Keybowl, HP, Kurzweil Educatonal Systems, Corda, Deque, Audio Eye, Sighted Electronics Freedom Vision and Vcom3D.
About The Paciello Group (TPG)

Founded by Mike Paciello, TPG is an international leader in Accessibility Consulting and Engineering. TPG is dedicated to helping corporations, government agencies and educational institutions make their IT
resources accessible to all people, including those with disabilities. They offer professional consulting, technology solutions and monthly monitoring services to ensure that clients reach and maintain the ongoing accessibility of their digital assets. Further information on The Paciello Group can be found online at www.paciellogroup.com.

About TV Worldwide
As a leading global Internet broadcasting and streaming media company, TV Worldwide (www.tvworldwide.com) is developing a network of video channels that is an affiliation of community-based Internet television stations, each underwritten by a strategic partner, "aimcastingsm" to targeted demographic audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with strategic partners to develop the latest in live and archived state-of-the art video streaming content applications. . TVWorldwide.com was recently named one of the streaming video industry’s “Hottest Streaming Companies” by Streaming Magazine, www.streamingmagazine.com, and CEO Dave Gardy was honored by the magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential People in Streaming Media.

Contact: Dave Gardy
TV Worldwide.com
dgardy@tvworldwide.com
www.tvworldwide.com
(703) 961-9250 ext. 221

John Williams
AT508.com
JMMAW@aol.com
www.at508.com
(703) 404-9557

Andrea Gwartney
TVWorldwide.com, Inc.
Andrea@tvworldwide.com
www.tvworldwide.com
(703) 961-9250 Ext. 220

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