New York, NY - June 15, 2006 – Time Warner Cable and here! Networks, announced today that here! – America's first gay television network – has upgraded its service offering for Time Warner Digital Cable customers in Southeast Wisconsin to a monthly subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service.
Time Warner Cable will offer the variety of here! original and acquired programming including hit movies, series, comedies, specials and documentaries for one monthly subscription charge of $5.95. Customers can order here! by simply calling Time Warner Cable at 1-866-2ENJOYTV and via remote by tuning to Channel 1380. For more information on ordering here!, consumers can visit www.heretv.com and use their zipcode to find precise ordering instructions.
In celebration of the new service offering, here! partnered with Time Warner Cable and Q Life during Milwaukee Pride on June 9 – 11. In addition to a shared booth at the Summerfest grounds, here! also participated in nightly community events, the Pride Parade and special meet and greets with Charlie David, star of the here! original hit series Dante's Cove.
"here! is extremely pleased that Time Warner Cable is providing its digital customers throughout Southeast Wisconsin with the opportunity to subscribe to here! on a monthly basis," said Maria Dwyer, here! Senior Vice President, Distribution, Sales and Marketing. "Now viewers in Milwaukee can enjoy watching award-winning and critically acclaimed gay and lesbian entertainment on here! whenever they like, for one affordable price".
Recent and upcoming 2006 original films, series and specials on here! include the much anticipated second season of the hit supernatural soap opera Dante's Cove; 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; 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.
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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