CBS Mobile Launches "Entertainment Tonight" Application Free For iPHONE and iPOD Touch users
Real-Time Breaking News, Exclusive Celebrity Interviews, Videos and More Now Available On the Go
CBS Mobile and Entertainment Tonight announced today the launch of its free "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT" application, bringing the latest entertainment news headlines to iPhone and iPod touch users. Through these new mobile offerings, the #1 entertainment news magazine show "Entertainment Tonight" will provide readers with the latest breaking news stories, exclusive interviews, videos and photo galleries.
CBS Television Distribution's "Entertainment Tonight," application features real-time updates from ETOnline.com to provide fans with the most updated celebrity news on-the-go. The application's navigation bar enables users to easily browse through celebrity coverage by tabbed sections including ET News, Videos, Pictures and Most Viewed stories.
"This application will make it easy for ET fans and viewers to keep up with all of the celebrity news," said Jeff Sellinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager, CBS Mobile. "Whether it's the latest story, picture or video, it's all available at any time."
The application's social media features include the option to share stories and videos, save to "favorite" and rate news articles. While browsing the photo section, fans can utilize the "swipe" navigation feature for a full-screen view of their favorite celebrities.
The innovative video experience supports picture-in-picture browsing during video playback as well automatic "playlisting" of multiple clips for uninterrupted viewing. Additionally, the in-video navigation option makes it easy to quickly change channels between video categories including movies, fashion, celebrities, music and television.
CBS Mobile has developed the application in conjunction with Rhythm NewMedia and it is available for download, free from the iTunes App store.
In addition to the launch of the Entertainment Tonight application, CBS Mobile is launching Entertainment Tonight Mobile Picture Alerts available across all major carriers. The mobile MMS alerts service is available for subscription on the homepage at ETOnline.com
About CBS Mobile
CBS Mobile, a unit of CBS Interactive Inc., is charged with building CBS Corporation's wireless business across entertainment, sports and news for CBS, The CW, and CBS Paramount Television. As part of this mission, CBS Mobile offers consumers some of the most innovative and best-of wireless content available today, ranging from the nation's first mobile video alerts for CBS Mobile News, CBS Sports Mobile and entertainment properties, to some of the nation's largest mobile Web sites, made-for-mobile video on all major carriers, a 24/7 mobile television network, and partnerships with the world's more leading edge mobile technology and ad targeting companies. CBS Corporation is the parent company of CBS Interactive Inc.
About ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
Currently in its 28th season, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT is produced and distributed by CBS Television Distribution and is taped in Studio City, Calif. Linda Bell Blue is executive producer. Mary Hart is anchor; Mark Steines is co-anchor. Jann Carl is primary substitute anchor and weekend anchor; Kevin Frazier is weekend anchor and correspondent. Leonard Maltin is film historian/correspondent. Cojo and Thea Andrews are correspondents.