America's First Gay Television Network Hits New Carriage High In Just Over 2 Years

NCTA National Show, Atlanta, GA (here! booth # 3137) – April 9, 2006 — here! Networks announced today it has reached the 50 million digital household milestone maintaining its status as one of the fastest growing independent programming networks to emerge on the cable landscape. here! officially launched in 2002 as America's first gay and lesbian television network. Since April 2005, here! has added more than 10 million new households.

The rapid distribution of here! is a result of rollouts in cable markets nationwide. Service expansions in various markets netted the network 2 million additional cable households passed since January 2006 which, combined with other satellite distribution, makes here! now available in 50 million digital households nationwide. Recent rollouts include systems in Miami, Hawaii, Kansas City, South Carolina, Northeast Ohio, GreenBay, Toledo and a host of other DMAs.

The first gay and lesbian network to emerge on the cable landscape, here! has provided operators with a key channel for reaching the affluent gay and lesbian consumer with its innovative, relevant and entertaining programming. The accelerated growth of here! has made it one of the cable industry's most exemplary VOD services and an emerging network to watch. Founder and CEO Paul Colichman embraced the flexible distribution model early on and established here! as a paid premium network. The flexible model enabled here! to have a wider reach as a non ad-supported network with a strong slate of original productions portraying the authentic lives of gays and lesbians. here! has always made a priority of grassroots, community-based marketing often in partnership with local cable operators.

"here! continues to set the bar for the way cable operators connect with a significant subscriber base," said Karen Flischel here! EVP and General Manager. "here! was specifically designed to address both the program interests of gay and lesbian audiences and the business needs of cable operators. Additionally, gay and lesbian characters and themes have become increasingly prevalent in the media which has further enabled here! to seize the day as a viable new option for operators to add to their lineup." One of first content providers to be offered on Google Video, here! is also available on broadband via Akimbo and MovieLink. Each month here! offers dozens of program choices, including a variety of groundbreaking and acclaimed movies and original productions appealing to the broad and diverse gay and lesbian audience. Talent appearing in original productions on here! this year include icons of gay and lesbian entertainment such as John Waters, Mariel Hemingway, Morgan Fairchild, Scott Thompson, Alexandra Paul and Chad Allen.

About here!

here!, America's first gay television network, was established in 2002 and is currently available to more than 50 million households nationwide. here! offers a wide variety of groundbreaking and acclaimed original movies and series plus the world's largest collection of gay and lesbian films appealing to the broad-based, diverse LGBT audience. here! is available across the U.S. via satellite and is offered by all major cable providers nationwide increasingly as a subscription video on-demand (SVOD) service. here! is also available to broadband homes via major Internet TV providers. For more information, please visit here!'s website at www.heretv.com.

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