Bright House Networks Announces Addition of Fox Business Network
to Its Cable News Programming
Livonia, MI, October 8, 2007
Bright House Networks of Michigan is pleased to announce the launch of Fox Business Network. The financial news channel will be featured on Bright House channel 122. Company President Robert McCann made the announcement.
The News Corporation business news channel reached a deal to be carried on Bright House Networks of Michigan, a leading provider of cable television, high-speed Internet and digital phone services for Wayne and Oakland counties. The new network is a spin-off of the Fox News Channel, and is scheduled to debut on October 15, 2007.
"We are excited about our partnership with Fox Business Network, which brings added value to our existing cable news programming for our customers," said Robert McCann, President of Bright House Networks of Michigan.
Bright House Networks provides products and services to make life more enjoyable offering hundreds of channels or top-quality television choices, non-stop digital music, incomparable benefits of high-speed cable Internet service. For more information about the company, please visit www.michigan.mybrighthouse.com or call 866.898.9101.
Additional information on Fox Business Network can be found on www.foxbusiness.com.
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.
