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TVN ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES FIRST NATIONAL BROADCAST NETWORK VOD DEAL WITH ABC NEWS
Agreement Expands Previously Announced Contract With ABC Cable Networks Group

BURBANK, CA, June 03, 2003- TVN Entertainment Corporation, the leading provider of on demand content, management and delivery services, today announced that it has concluded its first broadcast network distribution agreement with ABC News. Under the agreement TVN will distribute, encode, and provide asset management of up to 50 hours of Video-On-Demand/Subscription Video-On-Demand (VOD/SVOD) programming per month from ABC News.

Programs from ABC News include Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20, Primetime Thursday, Nightline, UpClose, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and World News Now. The announcement adds ABC News to a previous agreement with ABC Cable Networks Group that covered The Disney Channel, Toon Disney, SoapNet and ABC Family. TVN currently distributes more than 1200 hours VOD programming from over 70 content providers.

"ABC News has a long history of providing in-depth and compelling news programming," said Jim Riley, TVN's Senior Vice President of Business Development. "In times like these there is an intense demand for news. Our partnership enhances the growing list of quality content making its way to the VOD platform."

"ABC News is proud to be one of the first broadcast news organizations to reach our audience through VOD," said Bernard Gershon, Senior Vice President and General Manager of ABCNEWS.com. "TVN is a great partner to provide our loyal viewers nationwide exceptional programming on their schedule."

About TVN Entertainment Corporation
TVN Entertainment, the leading provider of on-demand television programming, management and delivery services, enables Video-On-Demand (VOD), Pay-Per-View (PPV) and direct response programming reaching over 50 million U.S. cable television households. In addition to comprehensive programming services, TVN Entertainment offers the only single-source management and distribution solution for VOD and PPV, including content aggregation, packaging, encoding, asset management and transport via satellite to all video service providers. TVN Entertainment has been chosen as the VOD content solution for many leading MSOs, including Adelphia, Charter, Comcast, Insight and Mediacom.


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