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TVO debuts kids iPhone app, downloads

TORONTO – TVO has added an educational iPhone App, iTunes downloads and video on demand to its efforts to broaden its educational reach for kids.Geared towards early learners, Melvin's Marvellous Words is an interactive literacy game for pre-schoolers based on Ontario's Kindergarten curriculum.  It is available now via Apple’s App Store.Parents can also download to own songs and music videos from some of TVO’s programming through iTunes via the TVO-iTunes partnership that encompasses international contracts in North America, Japan, Europe and Australia-New Zealand.Ontario's public educational media organization has also contributed programming to Rogers’ broadband portal Rogers On Demand Online."Parents can trust...