Verizon to Offer Live NFL Network Programming Over Broadband. Deal Includes Thursday and Saturday Regular Season NFL Games, Various College Football Bowl Games and Other Programming

NEW YORK - The National Football League and Verizon Communications have agreed to deliver live NFL Network sports and entertainment programming via Verizon’s consumer broadband services, beginning Dec. 7 with the matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns. Verizon already offers the NFL Network television channel to subscribers of its FiOS TV Service and is the only Internet service provider to deliver selected NFL Network programming over broadband.
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For the First Time Star Wars Fans Will Be Able to Experience the Excitement of All Six Epic Films in HD Any Time They Want, Exclusively with Comcast Digital Cable with ON DEMAND

PHILADELPHIA — Jedis, Wookies, Sith and droids are coming to Comcast Digital Cable with ON DEMAND like never before. Beginning this month, all six Star Wars films will be available in high-definition (HD) clarity any time customers want to watch them with Cinemax HD On Demand, nine days before the movies air on the Cinemax HD cable channel.

Comcast Digital Cable customers with HD service and a Cinemax subscription will be able to watch every Star Wars movie in HD as part of Comcast’s signature ON DEMAND video-on-demand (VOD) service, giving them unprecedented control over every moment of the epic. The debut of the films on Cinemax HD On Demand and on the Cinemax HD channel marks the first time the original Star Wars trilogy has been presented in HD on television.
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Verizon FiOS TV, High-Speed Internet Now Available to an Additional 8,600 Households in Hillsborough County; Company’s Video Franchises Cover 3 Million Households in Nine States

TAMPA, Fla. — Verizon today expanded the availability of its FiOS TV service to more than 8,600 households in FishHawk Ranch and some surrounding areas of eastern Hillsborough County, offering amazingly sharp pictures and sound and a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming, via the company’s all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the only company to offer such a communications network all the way to customers in homes and offices across the country.

Verizon first began offering its fiber-optic TV services to over 30,000 households in Hillsborough County earlier this year. This number has steadily grown throughout 2006, with today’s activation increasing to more than 116,000 the total number of households eligible to receive FiOS TV service in Hillsborough County.
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Nation’s Premier Video-On-Demand Service Features 7,500 Programs Monthly in Fall Lineup

New ‘TV Planner’ Guide on Comcast.net Helps Customers Navigate Expanding TV Choices

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ — Television viewers are increasingly choosing to watch the shows they want on their schedules - a trend fueling the incredible growth of Comcast’s signature video-on-demand service, which has now surpassed three billion program views since 2004. Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services, also set a new monthly record for July, with customers watching 180 million ON DEMAND shows.
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Latest Addition to Comcast’s HDTV Lineup Brings Fans HD Music Around the Clock and First-Ever High-Definition Simulcast of MTV’s Video Music Awards Live from Radio City Music Hall on Thursday, August 31st

Philadelphia, PA - August 29, 2006 -Music fans now have a “front-row seat” in their living rooms to see and hear their favorite musicians like never before with the debut of MHD: Music High-Definition on Comcast’s high-definition television (HDTV) lineup. MHD, MTV Networks’ high-definition music channel, is launching this month on many Comcast cable systems, giving viewers the opportunity to enjoy a non-stop lineup of HD music programs, as well as the first-ever simulcast of MTV’s Video Music Awards in high definition.
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Updated Telecom Rules Mean More Competition, Innovation, Jobs and Investment

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - Customers in California will see more competition and technological innovation as well as more investment and job growth in the state as a result of the historic reform of California’s telecommunications rules adopted today by the California Public Utilities Commission, Verizon predicted.
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Survey Reveals Why Verizon Is the Preferred Brand

PITTSBURGH – By roughly 4-to-1 margins, Pittsburgh residents say Verizon beats Comcast in terms of value, reliability and service quality, according to a recent survey conducted for Verizon by Public Opinion Strategies. And, consumers shopping for a bundle of voice, Internet and video services today would be more than twice as likely to pick Verizon, the survey said.

Comcast’s biggest liability? It raises prices too often, a flaw mentioned by 43 percent of survey subjects, followed by citations that Comcast is unresponsive to customer service issues and customers’ experiences of poor service.
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Subscription Video-On-Demand Service Now Available to Comcast Digital Cable Customers Nationwide

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15 - The hottest names in professional wrestling from today and from yesterday are coming together to bring fans the ultimate wrestling experience with WWE 24/7 On Demand, now available on Comcast’s ON DEMAND service. WWE 24/7 On Demand offers 40 hours of wrestling- related programming each month, including classic matches, behind-the-scenes coverage, wrestler profiles and more.

Beginning this month, Comcast Digital Cable customers can subscribe to WWE 24/7 On Demand for $7.99 per month, giving them instant access to the world’s largest wrestling library of more than seventy five thousand hours of programs from the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), NWA (National Wrestling Alliance), ECW (Extreme Championship Wrestling), AWA (American Wrestling Association) and Smoky Mountain Wrestling archives. From past championship bouts to up-close profiles of the stars that bring wrestling to life, WWE 24/7 brings fans an unprecedented look at their favorite sport.
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Record a Show Downstairs, Watch It Upstairs and Enjoy Photos and Music on the TV – all With Verizon’s Home Media DVR

New Feature Is the Latest Innovation From FiOS TV

NEW YORK – Digital video recorders (DVRs), which record TV programs to a hard drive, are transforming the way people watch television. Now, Verizon is transforming the DVR as the company introduces Home Media DVR to Verizon FiOS TV customers this week.

Home Media DVR features a multi-room DVR that enables up to three simultaneous viewings of programs recorded by the device without requiring customers to set up a complex home network or buy extra equipment. The recorder is bundled with Media Manager, a new feature that lets customers easily access photos and music from their personal computer and play them on their entertainment center where they look and sound the best. Both functions are made possible by software and technology already built into the FiOS platform on Verizon’s fiber-to-the-premises network.
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Verizon FiOS TV, High-Speed Internet Now Available to 4,000 Households in North Sarasota County; Company’s Video Franchises Now Cover 3 Million Households in Nine States

SARASOTA, Fla. - Verizon today began offering its FiOS TV service to 4,000 households in north Sarasota County, offering them amazingly sharp pictures and sound and a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming, via the company’s all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the only company to offer such a communications network all the way to customers in millions of homes and offices across the country.
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