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Continued Learning Networks L.L.C. Continued Learning Networks, L.L.C is a leading satellite program service provider. They present American Law Network
programming sponsored by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Legal Education, the Practicing Law Institute and the American Bar Association Center for Continued Legal
Education via its LAWYERStv service. Continue Learning Networks currently services 47 law firms and corporations. Pan-American Sports Network Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) is a 24 hour a day sports network transmitting to Latin America. PSN is the most
popular Latin American cable sports channel. PSN specializes in transmitting live sports from around the world to countries of Latin America. PSN also provides biographies of players and their teams, information
on tournament statistics and sports news. Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P., founded in 1981, is an information services, news and media company serving customers in 126 countries
around the world. The company has global news, television, radio, Internet, magazine and book publishing operations. Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is the world's largest cultural complex. The 12 world-renowned independent
Resident Companies that make up Lincoln Center represent the very best in the performing arts today. Live From Lincoln Center is the only live performing art series on television bringing the best of Lincoln
Center to living rooms throughout America. Wisdom Media Group, Inc.
Wisdom is the leading, global media resource for information, entertainment, communications and transaction
services to the growing, worldwide community interested in health and wellness, improved personal growth, heightened spirituality and life purpose, global issues, human potential and self discovery. Hallmark Channel Hallmark Channel is a 24-hour cable television program service that provides a diverse slate of high-quality
entertainment that is family-friendly to a national audience of nearly 45 million subscribers. With a mix of original programs, movies and miniseries from Hallmark Entertainment, as well as their award winning
libraries, Hallmark Channel offers a lineup that is compelling and contemporary.
Time Warner/New York 1 News Launched in 1992, New York 1 News is the first 24-hour all-news channel
devoted solely to New York City news and information. A division of Time Warner Cable, New York 1 News has become the most-watched cable channel in New York City from 6 to 9 a.m. Times Square Business Improvement District The Times Square Business Improvement District (the BID) was established to make Times Square clean, safe and friendly.
Since the BID began in 1992, it has provided a full range of supplemental services as well as promotion for the area, advocacy for the interests of the local businesses, information to enhance economic
development, and public improvements. Times Square 2000, The Global Celebration at the Crossroads of the World, was the largest New Year's Eve celebration ever held in Times Square's 95 year
history. Times Square 2000 was a 25-hour event beginning at 6:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, December 31, 1999, when the New Year arrived in the South Pacific. Times Square Television (TSTV), produced by the BID, was
offered to media outlets worldwide (broadcast, cable and internet) during the celebration. From at least 9 PM - 2 AM Eastern Time, a live video feed was made available via satellite around the world. The feed
carried two channels of audio; one channel carried natural sound from Times Square and the other channel carried a guide track providing information to broadcasters in English. Television organizations utilizing
TSTV had the option to run the feed in its entirety, customizing it with their own graphics and commentary or to use segments to build their own coverage of the event. MGM Networks, Inc. MGM
Network was created by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1999 to specifically focus on establishing cable, satellite, and other channels to distribute MGM's massive 4,100-film library. Under the leadership of industry
veteran Jules Haimovitz as its President, MGM Networks is an integral component of MGM's overall growth strategy, affording the company greater potential leverage of its library assets through proprietary branded
cable and/or satellite distribution channels. Vulcan Northwest, Inc. Paul G. Allen founded Vulcan Ventures Inc. of Bellevue, Washington in 1986 to research and implement his investments.
Through Vulcan Ventures, Allen invests in companies, which offer products, services or technologies that fit his Wired World strategy and can contribute to or benefit from the technology and strategy of other
companies withinthe group's extensive investment portfolio. In addition, the group is the majority owner of Charter Communications, the fourth largest cable operating company in the United States with more than 6
million subscribers. Recent investments include those in innovative content (e.g. Oxygen Media, ZDTV), Internet and e-commerce (e.g. Drugstore.com, eGreetings, Go2Net, Priceline.com, Stamps.com),
telecommunications (e.g. Allegiance Telecom, High Speed Access, InterNAP, NorthPoint Communications) and consumer device and service companies (e.g. Replay Networks, TiVo, and Wink Communications). Paxson Communications Corp. Paxson Communications Corporation is a broadcasting company whose principal business is the ownership and operation of
the largest broadcast television station group in the United States. Paxson Communications Corporation was an outgrowth of Paxson Broadcasting, founded in 1991 by Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, the co-founder
and past President of the Home Shopping Network, Inc., who had been involved in the radio and electronic retailing business for nearly 40 years. Paxson Broadcasting started out acquiring radio stations throughout
Florida and was one of the first broadcasting companies to build clusters of radio stations in major markets. Central European Media Enterprises, Ltd. Since launching its broadcasting operations in 1993, Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME), has become the
leading television broadcaster in the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Since its inception, CME's operating strategy has been to maximize reach and share of television advertising expenditures in
each of the countries in which it is now operating. The cornerstone of its successful formula is to forge strategic alliances with local partners in each of its markets. By demonstrating its programming
sensitivity to local language and culture and the active involvement of local station management, CME has been able to win the support of local authorities in licensing competition. CME's potential broadcast
reach in the region, combining current and developing stations, would bring the company's total household reach to over 140 million. CME is enhancing its distribution efficiency through the use of a transponder on
Eutelsat HB3 communications satellite, which it leased in 1995 for 12 years. Using the latest technology, CME will be able to digitally compress multiple channels into one transponder, giving CME affiliates a low
cost program distribution system, in their own language, within their license territories. CME is a Bermuda-based company with offices in Amsterdam, Prague and London, and is publicly traded on the New York Nasdaq
Exchange (CETV). Queens Public Communications Corporation, New York Queens Public Communications Corporation (QPTV) manages 4 public access television channels serving approximately
400,000 residents of Queens County, New York City's second largest borough. QPTV manages the channels under the Franchise Agreements between the city of New York and the cable operators in the Borough of Queens. Services provided to the community by QPTV include training for Queens residents interested in producing community programs, cablecasting of programs for, by and about the residents of Queens, New
York, and the management of an "in kind" Grant Aid Program for non-profit, Queens based organizations, in need of assistance with production costs. Multimedia/Gannett Broadcasting Multimedia Entertainment - NewsTalk Television - was a division of Multimedia, Inc., a diversified communications
company which published 11 daily and 49 non-daily newspapers, owned and operated five network affiliated television stations, two radio stations, operated 125 cable franchises in five states reaching 470,000
subscribers, and monitored approximately 64,000 security alarm subscribers. Multimedia Entertainment produced quality programming for domestic and international broadcast, and launched NewsTalk Television, a
24-hour news based, interactive national cable channel. Hotelevision, New York
Hotelevision launched on February 15, 2000 and offers a programming package of 10 cable television networks to
upscale hotel guests. Channels carried by Hotelevision include A&E Biography, Bloomberg Information Television, CNBC, Fox News Channel, Golf Network, MSNBC and the Weather Channel. Through exclusive
arrangements with participating cable television networks and hotels, Hotelevision will narrowcast special cable network hotel feeds, containing advertisements targeted to the business traveler, to its growing
national base of upscale and luxury hotels. Hotelevision has contractually secured nearly 100,000 hotel rooms required for product launch, and has signed agreements with Omni Hotels, Wyndham International, and
Winegardner & Hammons, Inc. Hotelevision is targeting the top 1.1 million or 30% of domestic hotel rooms. By year-end 2003, Hotelevision plans to serve more than 2,000 properties representing over 700,000
upscale rooms. Hotelevision transmits a multiplex of 10 cable networks in MCPC format to GE Americom Ku-Band satellite GE4, Transponder 18, utilizing Scientific-Atlanta Power Vu Plus compression equipment.
Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company, L.P. Ethnic-American Broadcasting Company, L.P. (EABC) was the only company in North America been built to serve the
entertainment, news and cultural needs of the ethnic community. Programming was delivered using direct to home satellite technology, and as a subscription service through Cable systems, SMATV and Wireless
operators. EABC provided nationwide customer service, maintenance, and marketing support. EABC launched seventeen additional channels in the summer of 1998, bringing the total number of channels to
twenty. The twenty channels included WMNB (Russian), Ciao TV (Italian), UBN (Ukrainian), Network Asia (Indian-Subcontinent). EABC services carried programming produced in the country of origin and original
programming produced at EABC's facility in Fort Lee, New Jersey. mPhase Television.Net, Inc.
In March 2000, AlphaStar International, Inc. teamed up with mPhase Television in a joint venture to
create a global broadband television distribution network. The network provides telcos worldwide with interactive television and video content via a hybrid model of satellites and standard copper telephone wire.
mPhase Television.Net, Inc. is the first pioneering effort of its kind to allow phone companies to compete with cable and satellite TV networks. McKibben Communications, Los Angeles The McKibben Los Angeles International MediaCenter offers a unique range of services that include: program acquisition
and origination, network coordination and support services, encryption and all associated limited access services. KoolConnect, NY KoolConnect.com is
a provider of consumer connectivity products and Internet Entertainment Systems. The KoolHotel product is an online service offering hotel guests in-suite Internet access, e-mail and a customized interface for
accessing online entertainment, video on demand and hotel information. Operated via wireless keyboard or remote control device, KoolHotel delivers a range of information and full access to the World Wide Web
through the television in each guest suite; it is customized to include the hotel's logo and property-specific content such as hotel services, events and room service menus.
AlphaStar Digital Television AlphaStar was one of the first world standard, digital DTH, satellite television services in the American marketplace.
The direct-to-home entertainment company offered more than 100 channels of video and audio services. These services included news, sports, movie, specialty, superstation, and pay-per-view programming delivered via
AT&T satellites using a small dish and AlphaStar's TV set-top digital receiver manufactured by Tee-Comm Electronics. AlphaStar was the first digital satellite television service in America to use TV/COM's open
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