PITTSBURGH, June 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WhereverTV Broadcasting Corp. (OTC:TVTV), a leader in delivering Over the Top (OTT) subscription television services to a variety of devices including smartphones, TabletPCs, streaming media players, computers and connected TVs, today announced that it has appointed 2 members to its Board of Directors. Messrs. Gary F. McGuirk and Jack Feldman were appointed effective June 5, 2015. The company also reaffirmed its continuing efforts to improve corporate governance by expanding the depth and breadth of its Board, to restructure operations and departments, broaden management, develop business opportunities and product offerings, and enhance its website.
The new Board member Jack Feldman brings 45 years of entrepreneurial experience to WhereverTV with emphasis in the Financial Services, Media & Entertainment and Consumer Goods Industries. With a background as Founder and Chief Executive Officer in over 9 successful companies, Mr. Feldman began his career as a Certified Public Accountant in Mexico City evolving to become the Founder and CEO of a leading consulting firm. He subsequently founded and ran companies involved in the production of US and Mexican movies, a Mexican home shopping TV channel, a company that had the TV rights to The Simpsons and many packages of American Films for Mexican Territories from Fox, Sony (Columbia), and Warner Brothers. As the President, Founder and Co-Owner of Producciones Internacionales SA de CV, Jack co-produced the movie Gaby, A True History, which was distributed by Columbia Pictures and nominated to the Oscars. For his full BIO, please visit www.Wherever.TV.
The new Board member Gary McGuirk brings more than 40 years of entrepreneurial experience to WhereverTV with a deep background in the Retail Trade and Software & Information Technology Services Industries with special emphasis in Convenience Distribution and Cyber Security. Mr. McGuirk has founded or led more than 7 highly successful, well-established companies that are regional or national in scope. Mr. McGuirk has also served on the Board of Directors or as Senior Management for several non-profit organizations and for-profit corporations such as the Children's' Friendship Project for Northern Ireland, Pennsylvania Distributors' Association, Liberty USA, Inc., Packet Viper, LLC, Digital Rodeo, LLC, Omni Food Concepts and Libcom I.S.P. Gary McGuirk is closely connected to the country music industry in Nashville, TN. For his full BIO, please visit www.Wherever.TV.
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About WhereverTV Broadcasting Corporation (Symbol: TVTV)
Founded in 2007, WhereverTV is the next generation subscription television service providing consumers with live-streaming, genre-specific, and in-language viewing choices from around the world, delivered to anywhere in the world, and through any internet enabled device. Programming is identical to existing broadcast and distribution providers with the only differences being that the broadcast signals are accessed through the internet via an over the top (OTT) platform, and channel management is handled by company's patented Interactive Program Guide (IPG) technology. WhereverTV provides an economically beneficial and completely versatile alternative to traditional cable and satellite services, with the added benefits of personalization and portability. Also known as Internet TV, WhereverTV delivers these same channels, shows and events to SmartTVs and digital media receivers including: GoogleTV, AppleTV, Roku, Boxee, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Droid Smartphone, and TabletPCs. The WhereverTV platform enables subscribers to access licensed and free-to-air content across these devices with the IPG across unlimited geographies, and wherever there is internet connectivity. The customer viewing experiences are based on customer location (geo-targeting) and content-rights management (subscriptions). Current in-language subscription offerings include Arabic TV, French TV, Italian TV, and Moroccan TV. Current genre specific subscriptions include NEWS channels, faith based channels and more. Apps are presently available for free in App Stores for iOS (Apple), Android and GoogleTV devices. DVR functionality to record your shows and view later is presently in the works. Licensed US TV content subscriptions will be available in 2015. Please visit: www.wherever.tv, for more info.
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