About

HWW produces, aggregates and syndicates content in several areas, including:

- Comprehensive TV listings for Australian FTA (free-to-air) and cable channels

- Movie listings for most Australian cinemas and movie festivals

- Gig listings, news, reviews and interviews

- Event listings and reviews

- Restaurant listings covering metro and regional areas of Australia

- Bar listings for metro centers

- A number of other content areas including lottery, horoscopes and humor

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HWW content is syndicated to several of Australia's most popular websites.

HWW also manages television metadata

Metadata

The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...

 for clients in the TV industry, including the Foxtel

Foxtel

Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between Telstra and News Corporation....

 digital electronic program guide

Electronic program guide

Electronic program guides and interactive program guides provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming...

 (EPG).

History

HWW was founded in 1974 as Horan Wall and Walker. Its first ever client was 2JJ

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

. In 2006, HWW was acquired by ninemsn

NineMSN

ninemsn is an Australian 50/50 joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co.. It effectively acts as the website for both the Nine Network and MSN, and is one of Australia's most popular websites...

because of ninemsn's confidence in HWW's mobile assets.