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DISH Network announced Wednesday that it has launched Tetris TV, a subscription-based interactive TV games service from cross-platform casual games company, Oberon Media, which licenses the rights to the Tetris format from The Tetris Company. Oberon, which plans to roll out Tetris TV with additional partners worldwide, says that DISH Network is the first company to launch the service in North America. DISH Network customers can subscribe to the new service, which is priced at $2.99 per month, via the satellite TV service's interactive TV portal, DISH Home, and via interactive banner ads.

The [itvt] editorial team is currently traveling in the UK, and, because of time restraints, we have decided to focus our editorial efforts this week on news that has been less widely covered (or not covered anywhere else at all). Three of the more widely covered news stories from the past few days are covered in summary/round-up form below. We anticipate some additional interruption of our regular news publishing schedule over the next few days, so we apologize in advance for any inconvenience to our readers. Here is the round-up:

Portland, Oregon-based interactive TV authoring solutions provider, Ensequence, announced two additions to its senior management team last week: Andy Addis--who was formerly EVP of marketing at gestural navigation specialist, Hillcrest Labs, and prior to that, SVP of marketing and new products at Comcast--has joined the company as SVP of marketing and business development; and Tom Epes--who was formerly general manager of US services and support for the communications sector at Microsoft--has joined the company as SVP of sales.

--Company's European Arm Begins Major Push for the EMEA Region

Portland, Oregon-based interactive TV authoring solutions provider, Ensequence, has generated a fair amount of news over the past few weeks:

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," sponsored by TiVo, Jim
Louderback, CEO of Revision3, provides an overview of his
company--which bills itself as "an actual TV network for the Web,"
and which produces its own original, broadcast-quality programming.

Topics discussed include funding, download numbers, revenues,
demographics, distribution strategy, content strategy, advertising