BRIGHT HOUSE NETWORKS (BHN) TO DELIVER NBC UNIVERSAL’S OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE TO DIGITAL VIDEO AND ROAD RUNNER CUSTOMERS
NBCU Partnership to Provide Olympic
High-Definition, Free On Demand and Online Programming
Orlando, FL – (August 5, 2008) –Bright House Networks (BHN) in agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU), will provide its customers with NBC’s best coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A complete schedule of NBCU’s coverage is available at NBCOlympics.com. The world’s premier event, to commence on Friday, Aug. 8, at 8 p.m. ET, will showcase BHN’s advanced technology, as well as cable’s broad digital offerings and deep and rich content across multiple digital platforms, including video-on-demand (VOD), high-definition (HD), broadband, and more.
In addition to the more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics coverage on seven NBCU networks – NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD – BHN (division) will allow customers to watch and be a part of the Olympics in-Games with Free-On-Demand and HD services, as well as broadband content from NBCOlympics.com via a link from the Road Runner website. Also, customers will enjoy NBCU's two HD sport-specific channels for soccer and basketball, in addition to Olympic competition programming for various sports with commentary in one of the host country’s native tongues, Mandarin (Chinese), as well as Korean.
NBCU's Games-Free-on-Demand content will feature daily highlights, in addition to access to the best events each day. Content includes overall daily highlights by sport (approximately 15 per day, some in HD), and “Rewind,” approximately five to 10 of the best sessions/games per day. Available in standard definition and HD, standard definition on-demand content will be available through the Sports-on-Demand portal and the HD content will be available through HD Showcase-on-Demand. Content will be made available on-demand beginning 8/10 until 8/30.
Via the RoadRunner.com portal, Road Runner subscribers will be able to link to NBCOlympics.com to access 2,200 hours of 25 events streamed live, plus full-event video replays, extensive highlights, including daily recaps of key events, best-of montages, commentator analysis and athlete-specific clips each day.
For the duration of the Olympic Games, BHN will also make available more than 800 hours of HD coverage on select NBCU HD networks:
* NBC HD: 225 hours
* Universal HD: 379 hours of simulcasts and re-airs of CNBC and MSNBC
* HD sport-specific channels: NBC Olympic Soccer Channel and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel, approximately 12 hours per day during Games.
In addition, BHN is making Universal HD available as part of the HD tier for the duration of the Olympic Games. Universal HD will be providing high definition coverage of select events carried on MSNBC and CNBC. At the conclusion of the Olympics it will be returned to the HD Destination tier.
“We are pleased to offer our customers NBC Universal’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics which showcases the power of BHN’s digital video and Road Runner High Speed services,” said Kevin Hyman, BHN Corporate Executive Vice President of Cable Operations. “This programming includes an unprecedented amount of High Definition, On-Demand and Broadband Olympics-related content, all made easily accessible for no additional charge to our digital video and Road Runner subscribers.”
About Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks is the nation’s 6th largest multiple cable system operator (MSO) with 2.4 million customers in several large markets including Bakersfield, California; Birmingham, Alabama; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Orlando, Florida (Central Florida Division) and Tampa Bay, Florida 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. BHN’s corporate locations are in Syracuse, New York and Orlando, Florida.
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