ABS-CBN Interactive
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ABS-CBN Interactive is the multimedia and interactive subsidiary of ABS-CBN. It was originally part of ABS-CBN's IT department as the Interactive Media Group (IMG). Then in 1999, headed by its newly-appointed managing director Carlo Katigbak, it was officially established to manage and grow ABS-CBN's websites as well as to venture into other forms of new media.
Together with its sister company's TV Production team, ABS-CBN Interactive's mobile business started out with the game show, Game KNB?, where TV audiences can join through their mobile phones. From there, the company began offering other forms of mobile value-added services with content sourced from ABS-CBN and its subsidiaries as well as other third-party content suppliers and aggregators.
The company, in partnership with ABS-CBN Global Ltd, also offers online video streaming with the brand ABS-CBN Now! With this service, ABS-CBN audience from around the world can subscribe and watch their favorite ABS-CBN shows anytime via the internet.
ABS-CBN Interactive formed a subsidiary, ABS-CBN Multimedia, to handle their massively multiplayer online role-playing game business. They first offered a game made by Hanbitsoft of Korea to the market - Tantra Online. After two years, they offered two new games - War Rock and Get Amped.
