Global InformationNTN Buzztime information
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Interactive entertainment |
| Founded | 1983[1] |
| Headquarters | Carlsbad, California |
Key people | Aram Fuchs, CEO and Owner[2] |
Number of employees | 136[1] |
| Website | www.buzztime.com/business |
NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms. Its most well-known product, simply called Buzztime, and formerly known as the NTN Network, since 1985, broadcasts trivia and other games via broadband over a national network to over 3,800 bars and restaurants in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. Operations in the UK were discontinued in 2008.[3] Available to players outside a bar in the 1990s as NTN Trivia on Sierra Entertainment's, prime before its time, online gaming network, ImagiNation Network (INN) where INN players competed against all other players globally and made rankings, etc like those playing at bar locations, but without the boozing. INN went defunct after its buyout by ATT.[4] Typically, independently owned bars and restaurants offer Buzztime. It is, however, offered by each outlet of two major U.S. chains, Buffalo Wild Wings and Damon's Grill. As of August 2021, Buffalo Wild Wings only carries Buzztime in 7 U.S. locations in 5 different states.[5] It is also carried at limited T.G.I. Friday's and Applebee's locations. Buzztime offers several different kinds of trivia games based on a variety of subjects, including pop culture, entertainment, world history, geography, sports and music, as well as general trivia games with questions in many categories.
NTN Buzztime, Inc. is based in Carlsbad, California. The company was founded as Alroy Industries[6] and formerly went by the name NTN Communications, Inc. from 1985 to 2005.
- ^ a b Yahoo. "NTN: Profile for NTN BUZZTIME INC". Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/748592/000149315220018033/ex10-3.htm
- ^ "NTN Buzztime, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Results". 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- ^ Personal knowledge as an NTN player on INN for seceral years in the late 1990s. See Imagination Network aka INN.
- ^ "Location Search". Buzztime. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
- ^ "NTN: Stock Quote & Summary Data". Retrieved 2010-09-29.