New York, NY - July 31, 2006 – here!, America's premium gay television network, currently available in 50 million U.S. households on Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, Mediacom, Time Warner, DirecTV, Echostar, Atlantic Broadband and Buckeye announced today carriage agreements with Alameda Power and Telecom (Almeda, CA); Bend Broadband (Central Oregon); Guadalupe Valley Communication Systems LP (Texas); Click! Networks (Tacoma, WA); and Canby Telephone Association (Canby, Oregon).
"These additions to our network distribution are an important step in here!'s growth across metropolitan and rural markets alike", said Maria Dwyer, here! Senior Vice President, Distribution Sales and Marketing.
These new service providers will offer here!'s original and acquired programming including hit movies, series, comedies, specials and documentaries through a variety of models that include a linear channel and subscription video on demand service.
For more information about local areas and availability, consumers can click here! and search by cable provider or zip code.
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. This fall, here! will premiere the much anticipated second season of its original 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 3 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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