New York, NY - June 5, 2006 – here!, America's first gay television network – is now available on Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey, Syracuse, Rochester and Lincoln, NE as a subscription premium network to digital customers. This agreement for a 24/7 premium channel represents new carriage in Lincoln, NE, and Rochester, NY and expanded platforms for Time Warner customers in New York, New Jersey and Syracuse. In addition to the 24/7 premium channel, here! subscribers in New York and New Jersey, Syracuse, Rochester and Lincoln will also receive the networks' video-on-demand service featuring dozens of titles available to watch anytime. here! will continue to work with all Time Warner Divisions across the country in growing here!'s platforms and business.
"Now Time Warner customers can enjoy watching here!'s most robust offering of authentic gay and lesbian programming at their convenience or watch here! on demand anytime they choose," said Maria Dwyer, SVP, Distribution Sales and Marketing.
"Time Warner Cable aims to give its customers access to a diverse lineup of programming," said Lynne Costantini, Senior Vice President of Programming for Time Warner Cable. "here! is a perfect addition to our continuous offering that provides greater variety of choice to our customers."
"We are delighted to be working with Time Warner on this exciting new component of our agreement. We appreciate that Time Warner has been so supportive of here! from the very beginning," said Karen Flischel, EVP and General Manager.
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 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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