NewTek Launches Online Streaming Television Channel NewTekTV.com

Technology demonstration turns into powerful marketing tool

Las Vegas, NV, NAB, Booth SL1949 – April 18, 2005 -- NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced the launch of an online streaming channel, NewTekTV.com. The 24/7 streaming television network offers live and pre-produced programming, featuring interviews from the NAB show floor, cutting edge computer animation, tutorials and more. Not only is NewTekTV.com a great resource for LightWave 3D ®, VT[4]™ and TriCaster™ customers to learn the latest tips and tricks, but it is also a practical demonstration of how easy it can be to start your own Internet Television Network.

"Corporate streaming is a silent revolution that gives Enterprise customers a competitive advantage by instantly distributing their message to large numbers of people,” said Philip Nelson, NewTek’s Senior Director of Video Marketing. “NewTekTV.com was originally created as a demonstration to show these potential corporate customers how easy and effective it can be to communicate via a live web stream, but has grown into an effective marketing tool for all NewTek products."

The current NewTekTV.com lineup includes:

• Batman: New Times , a student created short featuring the voices of Adam West, Mark Hammill, Courtney Thorne Smith and Dick Van Dyke.
• Behind-the-scenes visual effects reels
• Winners of the 2005 Japanese Wavey 3D animation awards.
• Retrospective glimpses at historical video moments, including the famous video Revolution
• Todd Rundgren's 3D music video, "Change Myself"
• A behind-the-scenes look at the worlds first live 24/7 internet television station, ManiaTV! and its use of VT[4] in it’s daily production pipeline

NewTek is exhibiting April 18-21 at NAB, Booth #SL1949, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, live production, presentation, animation and special effects tools including LightWave 3D®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award, TriCaster™ and VT[4] TM. NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary Video Toaster®. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film. Recent television and film projects using NewTek production tools include Sin City, The Aviator, Flight of the Phoenix, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Aliens of the Deep, "I, Robot", Spiderman 2, The Last Samurai, Battlestar: Galactica, Firefly, Smallville, Star Trek: Enterprise, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight, Recent game titles include Doom III, Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam for XBox, Age of Mythology, Civilization III, Dead to Rights, Baldur's Gate II, EverQuest and Escape From Monkey Island. Website: http://www.newtek.com

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