[July 01, 2008]

FORA.tv and The Aspen Institute to Broadcast the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival

SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- FORA.tv, the brilliant ideas network for video discourse and debate, will distribute content from The Aspen Institute's 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival on www.FORA.tv, and extend the reach of this content through FORA.tv's embeddable video player. Highlights from the Festival will be distributed daily beginning July 1, providing an opportunity to experience presentations and discussions from some of the world's most influential and provocative leaders, writers, scientists, artists, educators and business people. This year's featured Aspen Ideas Festival speakers include Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Arianna Huffington, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Brooks and many others.

To experience daily highlighted content from the Aspen Ideas Festival users can visit www.FORA.tv. Users can acquire the multi-program embeddable video player at either www.aspeninstitute.org or http://fora.tv/partner/aspen_institute, enabling the dynamic sharing of Festival content for the first time. The video player will refresh the latest Festival content daily, allowing users to digitally navigate discussions and events in an organized, easy-to-use manner. In the weeks following the Aspen Ideas Festival, full-length programs will be available on FORA.tv and will be posted on a continuous basis.

"This is an exciting partnership, taking the brilliant ideas and dialogue from one of the world's great public forums and delivering them to new audiences using state-of-the-art interactive video tools," said Brian Gruber, founder and CEO of FORA.tv. "The Aspen Institute is one of FORA.tv's premier content partners and the Aspen Ideas Festival promises to provide a wealth of memorable moments and discussions."

"We're pleased to have this opportunity to expand the audience for our work through FORA.tv's innovative video player and to use the FORA.tv platform to highlight these thought-provoking conversations in an accessible way," said James Spiegelman, Vice President and Director of Communications at The Aspen Institute. "Through the Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute aims to promote new thinking and fresh insights on today's big ideas."

FORA.tv is based in San Francisco, California.

For more information on the Aspen Ideas Festival, visit www.aifestival.org.

About FORA.tv

FORA.tv (www.fora.tv) is the brilliant ideas network for video discourse and debate. FORA.tv delivers content via its proprietary FORA Player, mobile phones, iPods, cable video-on-demand and other distribution platforms such as Akimbo and Link TV. Content partners of FORA.tv including: C-SPAN; the Chautauqua Institution; the World Affairs Councils of Northern California, Dallas, Oregon, Philadelphia and Connecticut; the Australian Broadcast Corporation, The Brookings Institution; Hoover Institution; the Cato Institute; New America Foundation; The Heritage Foundation; The Aspen Institute; The Commonwealth Club; The New School; The Long Now Foundation; the Museum of the African Diaspora; Asia Society; Hong Kong's Civic Exchange; University of London; Chatham House in London; Cambridge University; the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels; The Royal Institute for International Relations - EGMONT; and many of the America's top independent booksellers. Founded in 2006 by CEO, Brian Gruber, FORA.tv has been initially funded by a group of private investors, including leading media pioneer and venture capitalist, William R. Hearst III and Adobe. FORA.tv is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About the Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute, founded in 1950, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences, and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values. The Institute is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Its international network includes partner Aspen Institutes in Berlin, Rome, Lyon, Tokyo, New Delhi, and Bucharest, and leadership initiatives in Africa, Central America, and India.

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