Bright House Networks and Major League Baseball Sign Agreement to Connect Customers to MLB's Extra Innings Package
Seven Year Agreement allows Bright House Networks' digital customers access to MLB Extra Innings
Livonia, MI, April 5, 2007
Bright House Networks of Michigan announced today that they have reached an agreement with Major League Baseball, which allows Bright House Networks to continue to provide MLB's Extra Innings baseball package to fans. MLB Extra Innings will be featured on channels 712 - 721 for Bright House Digital customers.
"We are pleased once again to expand our relationship with Major League Baseball and to be able to provide our customers with Major League Baseball's Extra Inning package," said Robert McCann, President of Bright House Networks of Michigan. "This agreement will be of significant benefit to both Bright House and Major League Baseball as it creates a basis of cooperation that will benefit both Bright House customers and baseball fans."
The MLB Extra Innings will offer 70 games per week. The available games that make up this package are in addition to those on FOX, ESPN, ESPN2, regional sports network(s), and/or home team's television station affiliates.
Bright House Networks MLB Extra Innings pricing will be as follows:
- Early Bird = $159.95 pricing available through April 15
- Full Season = $199.95 pricing available from April 16 through July 8
- Half Season = $129.00 pricing available from July 9 through August 31
- Pennant Race (last four weeks of the season) = $59.00 pricing available from Sept. 1 through Sept. 30
Note: All packages include MLB games from the time of purchase through the end of the season (9/30)
Bright House Networks provides customers the very best in video, high speed data and phone service. For additional information, please visit www.michigan.mybrighthouse.com or call 866-898-9101.
BHN of Michigan currently provides service to Farmington, Farmington Hills, Livonia, Novi and Redford Township.
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.
