Television news and notes

* Reference 1

New York Daily News
Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Nov 30, 1998 pK1098

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ZDTV, the 24-hour Ziff-Davis cable and satellite network devoted to computer products, news and technology, recently presented a one-week promotional lottery, in which it gave away a computer-mounted Netcam every hour to someone who registered on its Web site. ZDTV got 40,000 registrants, a large number for such a little-seen network.

ZDTV is available via satellite, and by tapping into zd.com on the Web.

If you're still lusting after one of those tiny droidlike cameras, which enable you to send personal V-mails as well as be seen and heard on ZDTV, the channel still has more than a year left in its pledge to give away one per day.

Meanwhile, there are the shows on the network itself, which have a refreshing amount of anti-dweeb attitude _ like a computer-obsessed version of ESPN. And Victoria Recano, just to name one savvy and polished anchor, is a lot more professional than you'd expect from such a narrowcast startup operation.

_David Bianculli

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