WealthTV Joins SureWest Lineup in Kansas City

WealthTV Joins SureWest Lineup in Kansas City

Lifestyle & Entertainment Channel to Enrich new SureWest Viewers in Kansas City Region

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- WealthTV, the premier luxury lifestyle and entertainment network in digital and high definition, today announced that it has concluded an agreement with SureWest Communications (NASDAQ:SURW) to bring WealthTV's luxury lifestyle and entertainment programming to SureWest customers in the Kansas City region. SureWest will be featuring WealthTV in digital and crystal clear high definition formats.

With its own state-of-the-art high definition production studios, WealthTV will complement SureWest's robust channel lineup with unique and original programming on what every American dreams of -- from travel secrets to fast cars, from better etiquette to better investing, and much more available in brilliantly clear high definition.

"SureWest has done an outstanding job in deploying advanced video services for their customers with a robust high definition lineup. We are pleased that SureWest customers in the Kansas City area will soon be able to enjoy WealthTV in digital and brilliantly clear high definition," stated Robert Herring, Sr., CEO of WealthTV.

"We're excited to further enhance the programming lineup in our newly acquired Kansas City region, demonstrating our commitment to offering our customers more choices and the best programming available," stated Peter Drozdoff, SureWest's vice president of marketing. "WealthTV continues to deliver the type of programming that our viewers enjoy watching, especially in lifelike high definition."

Earlier this year, SureWest, a leading integrated communications provider headquartered in Northern California, acquired Lenexa, Kansas based Everest Broadband. SureWest currently has over 55,000 video customers. WealthTV has been available to SureWest video customers in Sacramento, California since late 2006.

About SureWest Communications

SureWest Communications (http://www.surewest.com/) is one of the nation's leading integrated communications providers and is the bandwidth leader in the markets it serves. Headquartered in Northern California for more than 90 years, the company expanded into the Kansas City region in February 2008 and offers bundled residential and commercial services that include IP-based digital and high-definition television, high-speed Internet, Voice over IP, and local and long distance telephone. Its fiber-to-the-premise IP-based network in the Sacramento region features the fastest symmetrical Internet speeds in the nation at up to 50 Mbps. In its Kansas City market (http://www.everestkc.com/), 75 percent of the company's customers subscribe to at least three services.

About WealthTV

WealthTV is the premier lifestyle and entertainment network -- the destination for exclusive and original programming, simultaneously transmitted in high definition and standard definition. WealthTV delivers to viewers informative shows that provide invaluable insights on what every American dreams of -- from travel secrets to fast cars, from better etiquette to better investing, and much more. The network fills a television vacuum by delivering intellectually stimulating, thought-provoking entertainment and always-unbiased news from an insider's perspective. For more information, please visit http://www.wealthtv.net/.

    For more information, contact:    Charles Herring    WealthTV    Phone:  858-270-6900    http://www.wealthtv.net/     Ron Rogers    Corporate Communications Director    SureWest Communications    Phone: 916-746-3123    http://www.surewest.com/  

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Source: WealthTV

CONTACT: Charles Herring of WealthTV, +1-858-270-6900,
charles@wealthtv.net; or Ron Rogers, Corporate Communications Director of
SureWest Communications, +1-916-746-3123

Web site: http://www.wealthtv.net/
http://www.surewest.com/
http://www.everestkc.com/

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