Livonia, MI, August 3, 2006
Bright House Networks will launch TV ONE on the Video on Demand platform. TV One is a modern television destination that features a broad range of lifestyle entertainment programming designed to entertain, inform, & inspire a diverse audience of African Americans.
TV One offers a minimum of five hours a month of short and long-form programming, including full episodes from its popular original series, such as Living It Up with Patti LaBelle and Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin. Short segments include celebrity interviews featuring major stars like Jamie Foxx, Usher, Blair Underwood and Anthony Anderson; discussions about important social, cultural and political topics with Rev. Al Sharpton; gardening and cooking segments; and soulful gospel performances from The Gospel of Music with Jeff Majors.
"We recognize the value in offering this service to our customers, and our VOD offering is designed to further entice viewers to experience On Demand service," said Robert McCann, President for the Detroit Division of Bright House Networks.
Digital customers can access the service through "Free on Demand" and then the Lifestyle portal.
About Bright House Networks
Advance/Newhouse Communications provides day-to-day management of Bright House Networks cable systems pursuant to its partnership with Time Warner Entertainment. Bright House Networks serves more than two million customers in several large markets that include Tampa Bay and Central Florida (Orlando), Indianapolis, Birmingham, Bakersfield and Detroit, along with several other smaller systems in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The high-growth Tampa/Central Florida markets are contiguous and form one of the country’s largest cable clusters.
Nearly 100% of Bright House Networks customers have high-speed data (HSD), Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) available to them. Bright House Networks also makes available Digital Video Recorders (DVR) that have become immensely popular with customers. The company’s Florida operations currently deliver nearly 300 channels to customers and were among the first in the country to offer High Definition Television signals (HDTV). Since its introduction, HDTV has achieved impressive acceptance with Bright House Networks customers who are equipped to receive the signals. Bright House Networks also offers HSD customers a choice of Multiple Internet Service Providers (MISP). The company recently commenced deployment of Digital Phone in Tampa Bay, Central Florida, and Michigan.
Exceptional customer service, free-of-charge, 24 hours per day, local and seven days per week is the company’s cornerstone of its business and top priority across all operating units. Public affairs, social responsibility and community involvement continue as major initiatives for the company as an ongoing commitment to the families and communities Bright House Networks serves. This includes long-term commitments to education and to what matters in the lives of the Bright House Networks customers.