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Burbank, CA, November 24, 2003- TVN Entertainment
Corporation, the leading provider of on demand content, management
and delivery services, announced today that it has renewed
and expanded its Video-On-Demand (VOD) services relationship
with Fox Cable Networks (FCN). Content will include the VOD
initiatives of FCN's cable networks including The National
Geographic Channel and Speed Channel.
The agreement calls for TVN to provide a range of VOD Services
including encoding, asset management, site-specific metadata
and multicast transport to VOD systems throughout North America.
As part of the deal, FCN will be able to customize content
offerings by individual market, including content mix, category,
and pricing - for any or all of its program packages. For
instance, FCN may offer product as part of an MSO's free VOD
offering in one market, on an a la carte Pay-Per-View (PPV)
basis in another, or as a subscription VOD package in yet
another. In addition, FCN and TVN will jointly explore innovative
opportunities in the VOD space.
"TVN is thrilled to deepen our relationship with FCN
and to explore unique VOD opportunities with them," said
Jim Riley, TVN's Senior Vice President of Business Development.
"It is no secret that FCN creates and packages compelling
programming that will drive incremental revenue for our mutual
affiliates."
"TVN has been a great partner in launching our VOD initiatives,
and we are excited to extend our relationship with them,"
said David Nathanson, Vice President of Broadband Strategy
& Channel Development for Fox Cable Networks. "TVN's
distribution base and asset management platform, along with
their willingness to develop innovative services, will help
us to create value for our cable partners through on-demand
initiatives."
About TVN Entertainment Corporation
TVN Entertainment, a Video-On-Demand (VOD) and Pay-Per-View
(PPV) content solutions company, is the leading provider of
on demand television programming, management and delivery
services. TVN currently distributes more than 1500 hours of
VOD programming from over 70 content providers. 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 solution for many leading MSOs, including Adelphia,
Charter, Comcast, Insight and Mediacom. For more information
visit www.tvn.com.
About Fox Cable Networks
Fox Cable Networks provides the nation's broadband operators
access to numerous national and regional programming networks,
including: FX, Fox Sports Net and its 13 owned-and-operated
Fox Sports Net regional sports networks, National Geographic
Channel, Speed Channel, Fuel, Fox Movie Channel, Fox Sports
World, Fox Sports en Español, Fox Sports Digital Nets
and related interactive television and broadband services.
Together, Fox Cable Networks are distributed to over 275 million
subscribers and represent one of the television industry's
most diverse portfolios of global, national, regional, local
and personal programming services.
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