New York, NY - June 15, 2006 – Time Warner Cable and here! Networks, announced today that here! – America's first gay television network – is now also available to Time Warner Digital Cable customers in Kansas City as a monthly subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service featuring dozens of titles available to watch anytime.
Time Warner Cable offers the variety of here! original and acquired programming including hit movies, series, comedies, specials and documentaries for a monthly charge of $6.95 to its digital customers in Kansas City. Customers can order here! by simply calling Time Warner Cable at 816.358.8833 and then tuning to Channel 122.
"here! is extremely pleased that Time Warner Cable is providing its digital customers in Kansas City with the opportunity to subscribe to here! on a monthly basis," said Maria Dwyer, here! Networks Senior Vice President, Distribution, Sales and Marketing. "Now viewers in Kansas City can enjoy watching award-winning and critically acclaimed gay and lesbian entertainment on here! whenever they like, for one affordable price."
"Time Warner Cable is able to serve our vast and diverse customer base with a wide variety of cable programming available through our digital services," said Damon Porter, Time Warner Cable Kansas City Director of Public Affairs. "We are proud to offer here! and the important voice it provides Kansas City. As an On Demand product we are giving viewers the ability to access programming on their own schedule."
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 and diverse LGBT audience. Recent and upcoming 2006 original films, series and specials on here! include: John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You, the heralded film series hosted by the legendary director John Waters from his hometown of Baltimore, MD; the much anticipated second season of here!'s hit supernatural soap opera Dante's Cove; and Shock To The System: A Donald Strachey Mystery, the second installment in the series of original films starring Chad Allen as a gay private investigator.
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. here! Interactive Media, a new online division of here! Networks, has over 2 million unique visitors a month through sites including Gaywired.com, GayMonkey.com, LesbiaNation.com and GaySports.com.
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For all press inquiries, please contact:
Josh Rosenzweig
Vice President, Corporate Communications and Marketing
here! Networks
212.920.2857
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