The Weather Channel and TVN Team Up to Bring Special Feature on Hurricane Katrina to VOD

The Weather Channel and TVN Team Up to Bring Special Feature on Hurricane Katrina to VOD

TVNow Rapid VOD Service Called Into Action

BURBANK, Calif. and ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TVN Entertainment and The Weather Channel are teaming up to bring a special presentation on Hurricane Katrina to VOD subscribers across the country. As part of the arrangement, TVN will deploy TVNow to quickly encode, transport, and make the Program available to cable systems throughout the U.S.

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This special presentation follows the development of Hurricane Katrina from August 25-29, tracking it from before it crossed Florida to the day after its deadly and destructive landfall on the central Gulf Coast. The program features segments of live coverage presented by meteorologists from The Weather Channel along with video of the storm and aftermath, some of which has never aired on the network.

Separately, The Weather Channel wrapped up a multi-year TVN VOD services agreement, marking their first VOD offering to date. The programming will be anchored by the signature "Storm Stories" series, a program long popular with viewers of The Weather Channel. Timing of the deal and public interest in the story prompted the companies to collaborate on the Hurricane Katrina special.

"TVN jumped into action to help us connect with viewers on this landmark weather event affecting families across a wide area of the country," said Lisa Shankle, Vice President of On Demand Television Services at The Weather Channel. "When catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina take place, television viewers trust The Weather Channel to provide in-depth information, and now that information is available On Demand as well."

"The Weather Channel is the leader in covering weather-related events like Katrina," said Matt Cohen, VP of Business Development, TVN Entertainment. "Based on our widely-deployed VOD platform, we are lending our resources to the efforts of The Weather Channel to provide timely information on this devastating hurricane."

About TVN Entertainment Corporation

TVN Entertainment, a video on demand (VOD) content solutions company, is a leading provider of on demand television programming, management and delivery services. TVN currently offers more than 2000 hours of VOD programming from over 75 content providers. In addition to comprehensive programming services, TVN Entertainment offers the only single-source management and distribution solution for VOD, including content aggregation, packaging, encoding, asset management and transport via satellite to all video service providers. TVN Entertainment has been chosen as the VOD solution for many leading MSOs and telecommunications companies, including Adelphia, Bresnan, Buckeye, Blue Ridge, Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Insight, Mediacom and Verizon. For more information visit www.TVN.com.

About Weather Channel

The Weather Channel, a 24-hour weather network, is seen in over 89 million U.S. households. Its Web site, weather.com, reaches more than 25 million unique users per month. Its content is currently ranked the 10th most popular in the U.S. by Nielsen//NetRatings. The Weather Channel also operates Weatherscan, a 24-hour, all-local weather network currently available to 22 million households; The Weather Channel Radio Network; The Weather Channel Newspaper Services, and is the leading weather information provider for emerging technologies. This includes broadband and interactive television applications, with wireless weather products accessible through high-speed Internet services, phones, pagers, and other personal digital assistants. The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications, Inc., a Norfolk, VA-based, privately held media company.

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