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SAN ANTONIO and WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., March 5 // -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and ION Media Networks, Inc. (Amex: ION) today announced a distribution agreement to deliver ION's suite of programming channels as part of the AT&T U-verse(SM) TV channel lineup.
Under the agreement, AT&T will carry ION Television, ION's flagship network, which features a broad mix of popular series, movies, sports and specials targeted to families and viewers of all ages. Additionally, AT&T U- verse TV will offer ION's recently launched 24-hour diginets, qubo, a bilingual, educational children's network focused on literacy and values, and ION Life, promoting active lifestyles, personal growth and wellness.
"We are pleased to offer ION's portfolio of diversified network programming to our U-verse TV subscribers," said Dan York, head of programming, AT&T Operations, Inc. "ION, qubo and ION Life are welcome additions to our channel lineup and enhance the value of our program offerings."
"We are delighted about initiating our television affiliation with AT&T," said Brandon Burgess, president and CEO, ION Media Networks. "AT&T is making major investments in its next-generation, multimedia consumer platform, and we are excited about the opportunity to deliver ION's content brands to AT&T U- verse customers."
AT&T U-verse TV is delivered by Project Lightspeed, the company's initiative to expand the fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver U-verse TV, AT&T Yahoo!(R) High Speed Internet U-verse Enabled and, in the future, Voice over IP services. Through its subsidiaries, AT&T expects to reach nearly 19 million households by the end of 2008 as part of its initial deployment, using fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technologies.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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Related Media Kits:
-- U-verse - http://www.att.com/uverse_news
Web Site Links:
-- AT&T U-verse Web Site - http://uverse.att.com
-- ION Media Networks Web Site - http://www.ionmedia.tv/
Wikipedia Links:
-- AT&T - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At%26t
-- AT&T U-verse - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Verse
-- FTTX - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTTX
-- IPTV - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTV
-- ION Media Networks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ION_Media_Networks
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About ION Media Networks, Inc.
ION Media Networks, Inc. owns and operates the nation's largest broadcast television station group, reaching over 90 million U.S. television households via its nationwide broadcast television, cable and satellite distribution systems. Our flagship network currently features popular television series and movies from the award-winning libraries of Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Television, CBS Television and NBC Universal. In addition, we have partnered with RHI Entertainment, which owns over 4,000 hours of acclaimed television content, to provide our network with high-quality primetime programming beginning July 2007. Utilizing our digital multicasting capability, we have launched several new digital TV brands, including qubo, a television and multimedia network for children formed in partnership with Scholastic, Corus Entertainment, Classic Media and NBC Universal, as well as a television and multimedia network dedicated to health and wellness for consumers and families. For more information, please visit http://www.ionmedia.tv .
