Sunday, December 20, 2009

History Launches First iPhone Application: The Life After People Photo Ager

What would appear to the apple if all animal beings disappeared? History™ has today launched its aboriginal iPhone and iPod Touch application, the Life After People Photo Ager, which helps acknowledgment that question. The chargeless appliance - accessible for download at Apple's iTunes abundance - allows users to "age" images which can be adored or aggregate with friends. As a two-hour special, Life After People was the top appearance on cable if it premiered, abutting with our admirers and ambience a almanac appraisement for History, and we are aflame about architecture on that success with Life After People the series This iPhone appliance is a abundant way for absolute admirers to affix and collaborate with the program, as able-bodied as an agreeable apparatus that we can use to advance the appearance and allure new viewers. The iPhone app abundance provides addition abode area admirers and consumers of our agreeable can affix with our brands in new, added immersive ways, whether through gaming, interactivity or a added analysis of our programming genres AETN has already apparent abundant success with A&E Network's Paranormal State application, and we plan to cycle out a amount of new applications in the abreast future.

New York, NY -- What would appear to the apple if all animal beings disappeared? History™ has today launched its aboriginal iPhone and iPod Touch application, the Life After People Photo Ager, which helps acknowledgment that question. The chargeless appliance - accessible for download at Apple's iTunes abundance - allows users to "age" images which can be adored or aggregate with friends.

History's new account television affairs Life After People premiered endure night and affectedness Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT. In ten one-hour episodes, the aboriginal alternation will use history's lens to accommodate clues to what would appear if bodies vanished from the earth, including what debris of the automated apple would survive, what would crumble fastest and more.

"As a two-hour special, Life After People was the top appearance on cable if it premiered, abutting with our admirers and ambience a almanac appraisement for History, and we are aflame about architecture on that success with Life After People the series," said Nancy Dubuc, Executive Vice President and General Manager of History. "This iPhone appliance is a abundant way for absolute admirers to affix and collaborate with the program, as able-bodied as an agreeable apparatus that we can use to advance the appearance and allure new viewers."

The Life After People Photo Ager is simple to use. Photos can be alien from the user's own photo library, or users can crop their own new photos to "age." Also allotment of the appliance is a "Location Explorer" that lets users page through a different photo arcade of acclaimed locations - all accompanied by actual descriptions - and again accelerate a feel alternating a annal bar to visually advance its crumbling action in adjustment to see what it would attending like afterwards people. Customizable postcards acquiesce users to allotment an age-old photo, alternating with a alone message, with friends. Each postcard contains a hotlink to the iTunes appliance store, so recipients can download their own archetype of the application, as able-bodied as appearance tune-in advice and a hotlink to the Life After People minisite at History.com. Visitors to the minisite can acquisition alternate timelines and quizzes (following the airing of anniversary episode), short-form videos and added advice about the show.

"The iPhone app abundance provides addition abode area admirers and consumers of our agreeable can affix with our brands in new, added immersive ways, whether through gaming, interactivity or a added analysis of our programming genres," said Steve Ronson, Executive Vice President, Enterprises, for A&E Television Networks (AETN). "AETN has already apparent abundant success with A&E Network's Paranormal State application, and we plan to cycle out a amount of new applications in the abreast future."

A&E's Paranormal State EMF Reader launched in January , in affiliation with the division premiere of A&E Network alternation Paranormal State. Like the EMF Reader, the Life After People appliance was developed by Moderati, a Bellrock Media Inc. Company.

Life After People is produced by Flight 33 Productions for History. The controlling ambassador for History is Paul Cabana.

About History:
History™ and History HD™ are arch destinations for revealing, award-winning aboriginal book alternation and event-driven specials that affix history with admirers in an informative, immersive and absorbing address above assorted platforms. Programming covers a assorted array of actual genres alignment from aggressive history to abreast history, technology to accustomed history, as able-bodied as science, archaeology and pop culture. Among the network's affairs offerings are hit alternation such as Ax Men, Battle 360, The Universe, Cities of The Underworld and Ice Road Truckers, as able-bodied as acclaimed specials including 102 Minutes That Changed America, King, Life After People, 1968 with Tom Brokaw, Lost Book of Nostradamus and Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed. History has becoming four Peabody Awards, four Primetime Emmy® Awards, 12 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards and accustomed the celebrated Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network's Save Our History® attack committed to celebrated canning and history education. Take a Veteran to School Day is the network's latest action abutting America's schools and communities with veterans from all wars. History's Web site, amid at www.History.com, is the absolute actual online antecedent that delivers absorbing and advisory agreeable featuring broadband video, alternate timelines, maps, games, podcasts and more.

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