PRESS RELEASE

Date: May 20, 2005
Contact: Stanley H. Greene – (215) 219-8409

TVTN Service Announces New Emergency Management Feature

Enables Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Officials to Broadcast Important Alerts to Multiple Towns Simultaneously

Edison, New Jersey, May 20, 2005 – At today’s Alliance for Community Media and Jersey Access Group Conference, TelVue Corporation (OTC: TEVE.OB) announced a critical new public safety feature.   The feature is part of TelVue Virtual Television Networks’ (TVTN) programming service and will be available to over 700 municipalities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania this summer. 

Using TVTN’s patent pending Web Updating System (WEBUS), Emergency Management Officials will be able to distribute emergency alerts to all TVTN affiliates in a given state, region, county or on a municipality by municipality basis.  When the new feature launches, Emergency Officials can simply access WEBUS from any computer or PDA device equipped with Internet access, enter a user name and password, input the emergency message, and determine priority status and message distribution levels.  For example, an environmental concern resulting from a recent flood may require distribution to TVTN affiliates in a given county while a Homeland Security Alert could be distributed to all TVTN affiliates statewide.

“We are looking forward to launching such a valuable feature to the public by way of our TVTN affiliates,” said Joseph M. Murphy, President and CEO of TelVue Corporation. “Our new feature will give Emergency Management Officials an efficient way of distributing emergency information.”

TVTN (www.tvtn.tv) dramatically improves the way communities see local access programming by efficiently disseminating news people can use; broadcasting information in an eye- and ear-catching format; and rotating "fresh" information while keeping content lively.

TVTN is capable of upgrading the look and feel of thousands of Public, Education and Government (PEG) channels around the country simultaneously.

With TVTN, these channels can transform from text-based bulletin boards to multimedia outlets complete with full-motion video, graphics with voice-over, video-based public service announcements, local weather and traffic, and instant emergency alerts.

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