New York, NY - July 6, 2006 – Time Warner Cable and here! Networks announced today that here! – America’s premium gay television network – is now available to Time Warner Digital Cable customers in Rochester, New York around the clock as a premium network. In addition to the 24/7 premium channel, here! subscribers will also receive the network’s video-on-demand service featuring dozens of titles available to watch anytime.
Time Warner Cable Rochester will offer a variety of here! original and acquired programming including hit movies, series, comedies, specials and documentaries for a monthly charge of $6.95. Both the 24/7 premium channel (Channel 454) and the on demand service (Channel 453) are included in this price. To purchase here!, customers can tune to Channel 454 on their digital cable receiver and follow the instructions that appear on screen or call Time Warner Cable at 1-800-756-7956.
In conjunction with the launch, here! will participate in the Annual Streets of Pride Festival on Saturday, July 8th located at Festival at Village Gate. Representatives from the network will be on-site to share ordering information, answer questions about current and future here! programming and distribute fun promotional items to an expected crowd of 5,000.
"Now Time Warner customers in Rochester can enjoy watching here!’s award-winning and critically acclaimed gay and lesbian entertainment whenever they like, for one affordable price," said Maria Dwyer, here! SVP, Distribution Sales and Marketing. "here! is extremely pleased that Time Warner Cable is providing its digital customers in Rochester the opportunity to watch here! at their convenience or subscribe to the network and watch here! on demand as they choose."
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 premium 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 nationwide on all major cable providers either as a 24/7 premium channel such as in New York City; a subscription video on demand (SVOD) service; and/or as a video on demand (VOD) service along with being available on major satellite providers. here! is also available to broadband homes via major Internet TV providers. here! Interactive Media, a new online division of here! Networks, has more than 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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