New York, NY March 13, 2006 – Time Warner Cable and here! Networks announced today that here!, America's First Gay Network, is now available to Time Warner Digital Cable customers in Austin, TX as a monthly subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service.
Time Warner Cable will offer a variety of here! original and acquired programming including hit movies, series, comedies, specials and documentaries. For one monthly subscription charge of $9.95, digital customers in Central Texas will have the opportunity of choosing from a wide selection of titles by simply tuning to channel 1120 and selecting "premiums." To purchase the here! SVOD package, customers should call Time Warner Cable at 512-485-5555.
"here! Network's mission is to offer diverse programming that will appeal to the wide range of audiences that encompass the gay and lesbian population. We are committed to developing and creating original material that is authentic, positive and entertaining." says CEO Paul Colichman. "By launching here! as a subscription service for one monthly price, viewers can now access an array of top-quality programs on here! whenever they like."
here! owns the world's largest archive of gay and lesbian television programming. Its recent productions include made-for-network movies, original series and specials including the film series "John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You," a film series hosted by the legendary director from his hometown of Baltimore, MD. Other offerings include: here!'s supernatural soap "Dante's Cove"; TRAPPED, a lesbian psychological thriller; and Third Man Out, first in a series of made-for-network films starring Chad Allen as a gay private investigator and based on the Donald Strachey mysteries.
About here!
here!, America's first gay television network, was established in 2002 and is currently available to more than 48 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.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems serving 10.9 million subscribers in 27 states, which include some of the most technologically advanced, best-clustered cable systems in the country with more than 75% of the Company's customers in systems of 300,000 subscribers or more. Utilizing a fully upgraded advanced cable network and a steadfast commitment to providing consumers with choice, value and world-class customer service, Time Warner Cable is an industry leader in delivering advanced products and services such as video on demand, high definition television, digital video recorders, high-speed data, wireless home networking and Digital Phone. Time Warner Cable is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc.
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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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