Minor League Baseball's Eastern League Uses Text Message Voting for All-Star Game
Minor League Baseball's Eastern League is using cell phone text message voting, supported by Advanced Telecom Services, to choose its all stars for its annual All-Star game on July 11.
Norwich, CT (PRWEB) July 9, 2007 -- Minor League Baseball's Eastern League is using cell phone text message voting to choose its all stars for its annual Eastern League All-Star Game on July 11.
Advanced Telecom Services of Wayne, PA, has been retained by Fan Text Mobile to support its text message voting format for the Minor League Baseball Eastern League All-Star Game in Norwich, Connecticut.
The selection process includes fan selection of one position player and one pitcher from each team. The balloting is being done via text messaging and by online voting on the Eastern League website (www.easternleague.com). For text votes, fans enter the team nickname followed by the player's number to vote him into the all-star game.
The Eastern League All-Star Game will be played on Wednesday, July 11, at 7:30 p.m., at the home of the Connecticut Defenders in Norwich. It will be broadcast by Comcast (CN8) and SportsNet New York. The Eastern League is a AA league in Minor League Baseball (www.minorleaguebaseball.com) made up of the following teams: Akron Aeros; Altoona Curve; Binghamton Mets; Bowie Baysox; Connecticut Defenders; Erie Seawolves; Harrisburg Senators; New Britain Rock Cats; New Hampshire Fisher-Cats; Portland Sea Dogs; Reading Phillies; Trenton Thunder. Of the current 1242 players in Major League Baseball (www.mlb.com), 1199 played at the AA level at one point in their careers.
Advanced Telecom Services (www.advancedtele.com) has been providing text voting platforms via 900 number and text message since 1989. Examples include TV text voting, radio text voting, newspaper text voting, and stadium screen text voting systems. Its proprietary PromoTXT (www.promotxt.com) system provides the ability for advertisers and media to process over 10,000 simultaneous text message votes.
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