ABA to make an appearance on NeuLion's iPTV service

            This announcement was made at the same time with Sports Video Group's League Technology Summit in New York City on December 11. It follows NeuLion's successful launch of other IPTV networks for the National Hockey League, New York Knicks, National High School Coaches Association and others.

            This will make NeuLion's iPTV platform to be able to broadcast live and video on demand content, which is streamed straight to the TV. ABA will now be able to offer Chinese basketball games and other game footage through KyLin TV, NeuLion's Chinese media network.

            Since after launching KyLin TV in 2005, there has been more than 25,000 subscribers in all the U.S. State and Canadian providence. With KyLin TV, they have direct access to the largest collection of Chinese television entertainment and most popular broadcasts from China and Hong Kong in North America.

            KyLinTV will now cover the ABA games. NeuLion's iPTV service allows KyLinTV subscribers to watch television programming through NeuLion's set top box via the internet. The Pay per view games has been available since this December at the rate of $2.99. Just watch out because at least two games are scheduled per week. It will feature the Beijing Aoshen Olympian vs US/Canada teams. You will find teams from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Beijing in ABA. Though the Beijing Aoshen Olympian were once based in Los Angeles, this season, they will be playing in Singapore. Throughout this season, the ABA teams from Canada and the U.S. will be playing games which will be featured on KyLinTV.

            According to Charles Key, the ABA's Vice President of media and marketing, "Basketball is quickly becoming the number one sport worldwide and the Beijing Aoshen Olympian is gaining incredible fame. We are thrilled to reach the growing Chinese audience in North America and are eager to bring them this basketball coverage on KyLinTV."

            Chris Wagner, the Executive vice president and co-founder of NeuLion also said this, "NeuLion Sports Networks continue to grow. We are excited to have the ABA as a new basketball content provider and partner. Consumers prefer to have a choice in watching sports on either TV or the PC and that is a slam dunk for us, since our platform can deliver to either device."

            To round it all up, Joe Newman, the CEO of ABA said, "The ABA recently signed a 15-year agreement with the Beijing Aoshen Olympian to develop teams in Asia, including mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao. We are very excited about this season as being the first step towards bringing the excitement of ABA basketball to the world and having a wonderful parner like NeuLion is very important to us."