Players Network Appoints Andrew H. Orgel, President & COO

Players Network Appoints Andrew H. Orgel, President & COO

Experienced Media & Entertainment Veteran and MTV, Nickelodeon and A&E Start-Up Executive to Help Lead Company through Major Growth & Expansion

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Players Network (PNTV.OB) announced today that the company's Board of Directors has appointed media & entertainment veteran Andrew H. Orgel to the position of President & Chief Operating Officer. Orgel will be responsible for overseeing the growth and expansion of the Players Network brand as the leader in the gaming lifestyle category. His focus will be on developing core assets, including content, distribution, management and capitalization; and building revenues across multiple distribution platforms, including Players Network's 24-hour Video On Demand Channel (http://www.playersnetwork.com/company/news.asp) announced October 10th, broadband, mobile, in-room and additional future digital delivery opportunities.

"No media or entertainment executive is better qualified nor more experienced than Andy to provide strong leadership for Players Network at this time," stated Mark Bradley, Founder & current President of Players Network. "He is a highly respected leader and successful businessman in his field; and a part of the teams responsible for the conception, market launch, growth and leadership of some of the world's most successful media brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon and Arts & Entertainment (A&E). I am looking forward to working closely with Andy to take the company to the next stage." With this announcement, Bradley has been named Chairman & CEO.

Andrew H. Orgel is Managing Partner of Global Media Ventures, a media network development and management company. Orgel is a media industry leader with over 25 years of experience in the startup, management and growth of successful, industry-dominant, global consumer-driven media brands. He is recognized for building strong executive teams; creative and visionary programming, innovative marketing and broad-platform distribution. He has served as an Advisor to Players Network since February.

Orgel was part of the start-up executive team at and served as Vice President, Sales & Marketing of MTV, Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel and the original Vice President, Affiliate Sales & Marketing, and later the Senior Vice President, Programming & Production of the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E. Orgel has been labeled by Success Magazine as "the man who made TV interactive." He co-founded Interactive Enterprises, which joined with U.S. West (now Qwest) to create Interactive Video Enterprises where he developed a suite of television services for digital broadband delivery by telephone companies and served as President, Video Jukebox Network, which he later re- branded "THE BOX: Music Television You Control," the first interactive television network (now MTV). He serves on the boards of Channel Lab, LLC, QOL (Quality of Life) Media, Inc., Channel G and Optimal Media Group; and, he is an advisor to AutoNet TV and the developing global music channel, passportM.

About Players Network:

Players Network is the leading gaming industry media company that produces television and video programming on gaming-centric entertainment, information and instruction via cable television Video On Demand, hotel casino private networks, DVD distribution and on its broadband network http://www.playersnetwork.com/. The company has a 10-year history of providing consumers with gaming content and businesses with strategic partner services in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the greater US gaming community.

Forward-looking statements in this report are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We wish to advise readers that actual results may differ substantially from such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the statements, including, but not limited to, the following: our ability to meet our cash and working capital needs, our ability to successfully market our product, and other risks detailed in our periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Media Relations: Bender Helper Impact, Jonalyn Morris (310) 473-4147

Investor Information: Players Network, +1 (702) 895-8884

Source: Players Network

CONTACT: Media Relations: Jonalyn Morris, Bender Helper Impact, +1-310-473-4147, Investor Information: Players Network, +1-702-895-8884

Web site: http://www.playersnetwork.com/ http://www.playersnetwork.com/company/news.asp

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