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PumpTop TV keeps You Informed 24/7

Posted May 13 2008 05:13 PM by staff 
Filed under: Miscellaneous


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Way back in the 1990s, some of us remember walking a concourse at a big city airport and seeing televisions bolted to the walls and ceilings that showed a special edition of CNN. We don’t know if the inventor of the television meant it to be an omnipresent source of information that is in our face 24 hours a day, but it is. The tube is everywhere --  including on top of gasoline pumps at gas stations.



So now that TV is becoming prominent at the pump, which gas station provider is the largest? That honor goes to PumpTop TV. The company claims it now has 6,000 LCD screens on fuel pumps at more than 550 gas stations in the U.S.

And the company wants more. They expect to reach more than 100 million gas consumers each month. That doesn’t sound unreasonable when you discover that four stations sign on to the service each and every day and they also expect to have PumpTop TV available to more than 1,100 gas stations in the largest U.S. markets by the end of this year.

The service offers a five minute program of news and entertainment. Programming includes news video from ABC, local maps from Google with real time traffic information and weather, sports and other news and entertainment content. And, yes, of course, we can’t forget that there are also advertising.

Our take? We guess they could put a TV on the doors of the toilet stalls at public buildings.




COMMUNITY COMMENTS
Edward A. Sanchez   (May 13 2008 05:39 PM)

More appropriate would be that clown head that squirts water in your face & laughs at you.
 
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