The enhanced programming is offered free of charge. Entertainment Television to offer the interactive value-added information. Entertainment Television plans to roll out additional Wink-enhanced programming in 1999. Wink is proud to provide tools that strengthen that bond. Wink Enhanced Broadcasting has been deployed in Japan since October 1996, and was initially deployed in the United States in June 1998 in Kingsport, Tennessee on an InterMedia cable system.
News programming is available in bitmap or tif format.