EROOM

EROOM is an internet portal owned by EuroMedia that was launched by the company in 2001 by merging TV3.er, ET1.co.er & spark.tv into one site. It is currently the most visited site in the country.

History
In 1999, EuroMedia began debating about a possible merger of it's ER based websites, for TV3, Channel 4, Spark, ET1 & News Direct into a single service. It was officially announced on 8th September, 2000 that all of these websites would merge and become part of one service called "EROOM" on 2nd January, 2001. Promotions for the service began to broadcast on TV on 19th December, 2000. Upon merging, the News Direct banner was dropped, but remained as the name for EuroMedia's 24 hour news radio station. All of the new sites would have the name of the service followed by the suffix “.eroom.er” (e.g. news.eroom.er). It was also used by a EuroMedia as an attempt to tell users that all of the services were connected (All of the original services were owned by EuroMedia). Within a month, over 16 million people were using the new service. Throughout 2001, other companies began to join EROOM as partners, including Yahoo (Yahoo's search engine was built into the service), Deutsch Telekom (telekom.eroom.er), France Telecom (orange.eroom.er), Apple (apple.eroom.er), ITN (merged with News Direct into news.eroom.er), MTV (music.eroom.er) & Vivendi Universal/TimeWarner, who launched a service known as Movieworld (movieworld.eroom.er). On 6th November 2002, The service launched "Anytime", a video service which allowed viewers to download and watch TV3 & Channel 4 programmes. Spark programmes were also available by using ET1 subscription details.

Partners

 * TV3 (TV3.eroom.er)
 * FOX (FOX.eroom.er)
 * TMF (TMF.eroom.er)

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