Verizon V CAST Mobile TV celebrates its first anniversary; ESPN Radio Channel, MTV Tr3s now in the mix

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is celebrating the first anniversary of its V CAST Mobile TV service. The CDMA carrier released some facts for the occasion proving just how successful it was:

• V CAST Mobile TV is now available in more than 50 markets from coast to coast — including Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
• More than 150 programs are currently available through V CAST Mobile TV.
• Top news and entertainment shows that are available for the mobile TV subscribers include Late Show with David Letterman (CBS Mobile), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (COMEDY CENTRAL), The Today Show (NBC News2GO), The Hills (MTV), and Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon).
• In the 2007-2008 college football season, Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Mobile TV service offered live coverage of some of the hottest tickets in town — including 24 college football bowl games (ESPN Mobile, CBS Mobile and FOX Mobile), as well as a variety of regular season games from the nation’s top teams.
• While we’re talking about sports, during the spring and summer of 2007, Verizon streamed more than 400 hours of live sports to V CAST Mobile TV subscribers. We’re talking about events like the U.S. Open golf championship (NBC 2GO and ESPN Mobile), The Stanley Cup (NBC 2GO), men’s college basketball championship games (CBS Mobile and ESPN Mobile), the Preakness Stakes (NBC 2GO), and the qualifying races for the Indianapolis 500 (ESPN Mobile).
• Four phones currently support V CAST Mobile TV – LG Voyager, MOTORIZR Z6tv, Samsung SCH-u620, LG VX9400 (pictured on the right).

Verizon keeps adding additional markets and programs. Alongside their anniversary release, they also announced that MTV’s bilingual channel – MTV Tr3s (release) and ESPN Radio (release) are now available to V CAST Mobile TV subscribers.