2004
January 2004 - Panasonic Chooses Bunting's Window
for PDVR Launch to Hit Early Adopters.
January 2004 - Chuck Gatt Returns to SkyTV as
Producer of Destinations – Kick Off Scheduled for May to Include
Ritz Carlton Chicago, Four Seasons Hotels and the State of New Mexico.
January 2004 - Ad Veterans from the Wall Street
Journal and British Telecom Join the Sky In-Flight Television Producer
Ranks.
January 2004 - C.E.S Special on Bunting's Window
Features Top Consumer Electronics to be Features at Annual Vegas
Trade Show.
February 2004- NorthWest Airlines Signs Distribution
Contract With Sky In-Flight Television for Bunting's Window and
Other Programs
March 2004 - Concast Buys TechTV From Paul Allen
– 24 Hour Cable Channel on Technology and the Internet Originally
Created Via SkyTV
April 2004- New HDTV Programming Service From
Cabletron Goes National With Mark Bunting The Computer Guy as Host
of ½ Hour Special.
2003
January 2003 - Bank Of America Kicks Off On-Line
Banking Series on the Sky In-Flight TV Network.
February 2003 - Sky In-Flight Television Settles
Out of Court With Former Employees on Embezzlement Charges.
March 2003 - Can It Get Any Worse? United Airlines
Bankruptcy + Gulf War Not Exactly an In-flight Media Company Dream-Come-True.
March 2003 - Bunting Buys Into Real Estate TV
with RealEstateTV. LLC Group in Phoenix – Acquires Phoenix’s Best
New Homes on Fox 10.
April 2003 - Air Travel at a 5 Year Low – American
Airlines and Delta Threaten Possible Bankruptcy – Sky In-flight
Down But Not Out.
July 2003 - Scott Grimes of Upside Magazine Joins
SkyTV Sales Efforts in Dallas.
August 2003 - Microsoft and Sony Kick Off Big
Campaigns on Bunting's Window.
October 2003 - Bunting's Window Boasts Best Month
in Over 2 Years With Blow-Out Commitments in October Show.
October 2003 - Intel To Feature on Wireless Revolution
in Up-Coming Specials on Bunting's Window.
November 2003 - Mark Bunting Lead Group Acquires
Orbis Broadcast Group and Facilities in Chicago.
November 2003 – Microsoft’s Biggest Synchronized
Product Launches Leverage Bunting's Window Across a Myriad of Products
and Groups.
November 2003 - United Airlines and Pace Communications
Selects Sky In-Flight Television to Again Produce Destinations.
November 2003 - Sheri Baerwaldt Leaves Her South
Florida Post to Join the Sky In-Flight Television Ranks.
2002
January 2002 - Long Time SkyTV Veteran and Right
Hand Man David Johnson Becomes Senior Sales Director for SkyTV In-Flight
Marketing Efforts.
February 2002 - Destinations Sets Record for Sponsorship
Despite Turmoil in Travel Sector.
March 2002 - America West Renews Commitment to
SkyTV and it’s Programs with a Contract Extension.
May 2002 - US Airways Operating in Bankruptcy
Reaffirms SkyTV Programming Relationship with Programming Contract
Renewal.
August 2002 – Rumors of United Airlines Bankruptcy
Questions Casts Pale Over Already Beleaguered In-Flight TV Providers
November 2002 - TechMedia Capital, Inc. of Dallas,
Texas Purchases the Assets of SkyTV, SkyMedia, LLC and SeeItWork.com
from EFO Holdings.
2001
January 2001 - SkyTV Reaches Milestone of 300
Clients – Roster of Many Fortune 500 and Some of the Biggest Names
in Tech, Travel and More!
March 2001 - Victim of the Dot-Com Debacle SeeItWork.com
Shuttered.
March 2001 - ABC’s The View to Feature
Mark Bunting The Computer Guy on Virtual Make-Overs.
April 2001 - The Countries of Costa Rica and Guatemala
Select SkyTV for Produce Department of Tourism Video.
July 2001 - New SkyTV Network to Debut This Fall
With Numerous Top Airlines in Pact to Provide Greater Distribution
to Programmers and Advertisers.
August 2001 - Palm and Microsoft Handhelds Battle
it Out With Bunting's Window In-Flight Wars.
September 2001 - SkyTV Employees Pledge 5% of
Their Salaries to the United Airlines and American Airlines Families
of 9/11 Tragedy.
October 2001 - September 11th Events Put In-Flight
Programming Industry on Hold.
December 2001 - Bunting's Window Holiday Special
Surpasses Expectations for December Airing.
2000
January 2000 - Encore/Starz to Broadcast Mark’s
Web World as Part of Cable In The Classroom Initiative.
Febraury 2000 - South America’s 2nd Largest Airline
Lan Chile to Broadcast Bunting's Window In-Flight.
June 2000 - Dallas Investment Group EFO Buys SkyTV
from ZDTV and Relocates Remainder of Operations from San Francisco
to Dallas HQ.
June 2000 - SeeItWork.com Receives Funding in
Co-Venture With SkyTV – Industries First Internet Video Catalogue
Service is Born.
July 2000 - Hollywood PR Diva Julia Marino Joins
SkyTV as Head of PR and Communications.
August 2000 - SkyTV and SeeItWork.com Move Into
New 70,000+ Square Foot High-Tech Digital Video Factory.
September 2000 - Delta Airlines Hires SkyTV for
Development of Custom Technology Program SkyTech.
November 2000 - Qatar Airlines Begins Airing Bunting's Window in Arabic as Featured Program on In-Flight Entertainment.
November 2000 - America West Airlines Selects
SkyTV to Produce and Air Bunting's Window.
December 2000- United Airlines Renew Programming
Relationship for 7th Season and US Air Signs up for a 5th!
1999
January 1999 - NY Times Magazine Executive Phil
Mussman Joins SkyTV to Head Spot Sales Team in New York.
January 1999 - FoxNet Selects The
Computer Guy for Their Fall 1999 Programming Line-up.
January 1999 - Encore/Starz Enters Into Multi-Year
Deal for Mark’s Web World as a Feature on WAM.
February 1999 - Wall Street Journal Veteran
Brian Fishers Leaves Dow-Jones to Join SkyTV/ZDTV in San Francisco
Office.
March 1999 - Saudi Arabian Air to Begin Broadcasting
Bunting's Window in Arabic Beginning in June.
March 1999 - ZDTV and Ziff-Davis To Manage All
Sales Activity for SkyTV Subsidiary.
April 1999 - Israeli Airline El Al Adds Bunting's Window to it’s Fall 99 Programming Schedule.
May 1999 - Mark Bunting Joins Board of Directors
of Service911.com Dallas Based Internet Service Company.
August 1999 - Nations 3rd Largest Consumer Electronics
Retailer The Good Guys Selects SkyTV to Produce Television Commercials/Bunting as Host.
August 1999 - Philippine Airways Begins Broadcasting
Bunting's Window as a Featured Program in it’s In-Flight Entertainment
Schedule.
August 1999 - Famed Travel Industry Marketer Chuck
Gatt to Head Destinations Sales Efforts for SkyTV
November 1999 - Mark Bunting Joins Board of Directors
of Consumer Electronics Retailer The Good Guys.com
1998
January 1998 - Bunting’s New Kids Show Mark’s
Web World Clears 85% of the US for a Fall 98 Launch.
April 1998 - Success Magazine – Working
at Home
June 1998 - Ziff Davis an NYSE Media Conglomerate
Announces Plans to Acquire SkyTV.
November 1998 - Ziff Davis Pays $72M to Purchase
SkyTV
December 1998 - SkyTV Pledged in Cash + Transaction
with Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen to Form ZDTV The First 24/7
Cable Channel Devoted to Computers and The Internet.
1997
January 1997 - Simon and Shuster Launches Bunting’s
Much Anticipated Book “Virtual Power”
January 1997 - NBC’s Dateline Spin-off
First-Person With Maria Shriver to Feature Mark Bunting The
Computer Guy.
January 1997 - Solomon Smith Barney Sole Underwriter
of NetWorth / Personal Finance and Investing Show to Launch
of United Airlines.
January 1997 - NorthWest Airlines Acquires Bunting's
Window and NetWorth for Their In-Flight Programming
Roster.
January 1997 - Brazil’s Largest Airline – Varig
to Broadcast Bunting's Window in Portuguese Beginning in March.
January 1997 - David Johnson Pharmaceutical Sales
Executive Joins SkyTV as Integral Part of In-Store Division.
February 1997 - NorthWest Airlines Acquires Bunting's
Window and NetWorth for Their In-Flight Programming
Roster.
February 1997 - Television Industry Veteran Gary
Schneider Becomes President of SkyTV.
March 1997- Cable Ace Committee Selects The Computer Guy For Nomination in Best News and Information Category.
June 1997- FinnAir – Finnish Airways to Broadcast
Bunting's Window in Fall 1997.
June 1997 - SkyTV’s First Car Show – TestDrive
Launches with Fanfare, Ford, and Four Airlines in Premier Episode.
July 1997 - Auto Industry Ad Sales Executive Sean
Mudd Joins SkyTV Team In-Charge of TestDrive.
July 1997 - SkyTV Opens San Francisco Office With
Technology Executive Jim Schwabe From NEC
August 1997 - The Home Computing Edge
TV News Vignettes Featuring Mark Bunting Goes “Live” on Over 30
Stations This Weekend.
September 1997 – Oracle Billionaire CEO Larry
Ellison Invites Bunting to Drive Exotic Cars and Talk “Tech” on
This Months Bunting's Window.
1996
January 1996 – US Airways Selects SkyTV as Premier
Programming Supplier for Bunting's Window.
January 1996 – The Learning Channel Renews The Computer Guy for a 2nd Season
January 1996 - United Airlines Launches Destinations
– SkyTV’s First Travel Program
February 1996 – CNBC launches Mark’s 2nd Show
Buntings Window to the Net – Sunday Afternoon at 4pm – Featuring
Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft.
March 1996 - The New York Times – On
Cable, On the Web, On the Plane.
April 1996 - Texas Business Magazine
– People to Watch: Mark Bunting, The Computer Man.
June 1996 – Success Magazine Cover Story
– Mark Bunting Featured as Working at Home Entrepreneur of the Year.
July 1996 - State of Texas Department of Tourism
Selects SkyTV to Produce “Travel Texas” Program.
September 1996 - Cable Ace Committee Selects The
Computer Man for Nomination in Best Business or Consumer Programming
Special or Series.
November 1996 – TWA Selects Buntings Window for
Their In-flight Line Up and Acquires Other SkyTV Shows in Programming
Deal.
November 1996 - NBC’s Today Show to Feature Mark
Bunting This Tuesday.
November 1996- Comdex Las Vegas – World Largest
Technology Convention to Feature Mark Bunting as Emcee.
December 1996 - Bunting and SkyTV Launch Interactive
Group TCBN (The Computer Broadcast Network).
1995
January 1995 -Tandy Corporation’s Computer City
Retail Chain Selects Mark Bunting and SkyTV for First In-Store Tech
Television Network.
January 1995 – CNBC Announces Mark Bunting’s Signature
Series of Technology Special Programs to Air Saturdays at 2:00pm
EST.
January 1995 – The Discovery Channel
Selects Mark Bunting to Host Invention – Tuesday Nights at 7:30pm
EST.
January 1995 – The Learning Channel Adds
The Computer Guy Program to Their Fall 1995 Line-up.
February 1995 - Lotus CEO Jim Manzi Selects Mark
Bunting to Host Lotus-Sphere in Orlando.
May 1995 – New York Times Cover Story
– All Bunting / All the Time!
May 1995 - The Dallas Morning News –
Special Report: “Window of Opportunity”.
May 1995 - The New York Times – Cybersalesman
Gains Growing Success by Mixing Star Quality and Boosterism.
June 1995 - Microsoft Selects Mark Bunting as
Spokesperson – 10 Week Tour for New Home Division Kicks Off in Times
Square on NBC’s Today Show.
July 1995 - Timex Hires Bunting as Spokesperson
and Kicks Off New Smart Watch Campaign
1994
January 1994 – NATPE – The Computer Guy Hits 85%
US Coverage in Station Commitments – a Firm Go!
January 1994 – NATPE – United Airlines Selects
Bunting's Window for it’s In-Flight Video Line-up to Launch in April.
April 1994 - Bunting's Window on United Airlines
Launches with Premier Episode Featuring IBM, Microsoft, and Intel.
April 1994 - Advertising Age – ‘Computer Guy’
turns into National Force.
July 1994 - Dallas Morning News – The Computer
Man: Mark Bunting Battles High Anxiety.
August 1994 - Bunting's Window Becomes One of
the Highest Rated Programs on UAL’s In-Flight Programming Line-up
According to Internally Published Reports.
October 1994 - Boston Herald – Microsoft
picks kids’ brains for ideas.
1993
July 1993 - Mark Bunting Forms GuyTV as the First
Television Company Dedicated to Computers and Technology
August 1993 - CMP – Tech Industry Leading Publisher
Enters Into Agreement with Mark Bunting to Develop Bunting's Window.
October 1993 – CNBC launches Mark’s 2nd Show “Bunting's Window” – Sunday Afternoon at 4pm
December 1993 - GuyTV Changes Names to SkyTV and
Re-Locates from New York to New Deep Ellum Studios in Dallas, Texas
1992
January 1992 - The Computer Guy Expands Adding
New Markets and New Sponsors Office Depot and Apple Computer.
November 1992 - Advertising Age – The
Computer Guy Gets Ready for National Drive
1991
November 1991 - The Computer Guy with
Mark Bunting Launches on KTVT – 39 in Houston, Texas – Show Called
“The Bob Vila of Computers”.
December 1991 - The Computer Guy Adds San Francisco,
Philadelphia, Dallas, Denver and More to Become the First Ever Nationally
Syndicated Computer Program
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