Thursday, April 30, 2009

Win 10 Grand With Charter On Demand


You Could Win the $10,000 Grand Prize or Weekly Prizes Including a 52” Flat Screen HDTV

Charter Communications, Inc.today announced a new sweepstakes, “Win 10 Grand with Charter On Demand.” The Win 10 Grand with On Demand Sweepstakes offers customers the chance to win one 52” flat screen HDTV each week during May, in addition to one $10,000 grand prize. Participants that complete the online question every week will receive a free On Demand Movie coupon via email at the conclusion of the sweepstakes.

Charter customers can participate in this unique experience by visiting www.charter.net/10grand during the month of May. Each week, Charter’s website will host an On Demand question (hints are available) encouraging customers to explore Charter On Demand to find the answers. These questions will focus on different On Demand features such as new movie releases, trailers, original series, and Primetime On Demand shows. Charter offers a significant portion of On Demand content for free, and much of the content is also available in High Definition (HD).

"From the comfort of home, Charter On Demand provides a vast library of more than 6000 movies and shows, including more free content and new releases than ever, and a growing HD offering,” said Maria Rothschild, Senior Director of Video Product Management for Charter. “Our On Demand service has a wide variety of entertainment choices and we believe this sweepstakes is an exciting way to help our customers discover this added value.”

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Time Warner Cable Launches the Fastest RoadRunner.com Ever

Award Winning RoadRunner.com Portal Now Faster Than Ever

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) today launched a new and upgraded RoadRunner.com customer portal. Designed to deliver on a true broadband experience, the new site offers dramatically accelerated load times and provides an optimal environment in which customers can enjoy video, photos or any other web content. This is the first major upgrade to www.rr.com in four years and will serve as the first phase of many enhancements to be released throughout 2009.

The new Road Runner portal will deliver up to the minute local and national news, sports, entertainment, videos and much more directly from the homepage. Customers also have one click access to their email, localized weather information, horoscopes, and cable provider websites through a new simple, clean user interface.

Road Runner customers also get free access to a robust suite of security products (anti-spam, anti-virus, firewall and parental controls), 52 channels of commercial free music with Road Runner Radio, thousands of videos from programming providers such as CNN and Showtime, plus photo sharing software that in many markets allows customers to post their creations to the web as well as their TV.

“Road Runner's always delivered blazing fast Internet speeds,” said Steve Cook, Senior Vice President of High Speed Online Strategy and Web Services for Time Warner Cable. “Now RoadRunner.com brings those speeds to its own portal page, giving our customers a Web interface that delivers the content they want in a way that’s simple and easy.”

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

SIRIUS XM Radio to Offer Listeners Extended Block of Tom Petty's Buried Treasure Show on Deep Tracks Channel


SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) announced today that Tom Petty's critically-acclaimed Thursday evening show on Deep Tracks, Tom Petty's Buried Treasure, will now also be broadcast each Sunday evening for an uninterrupted four hours on Deep Tracks SIRIUS channel 16 and XM channel 40 beginning Sunday, February 15.

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Due to popular demand, SIRIUS XM listeners will now have access to four non-stop additional hours of Tom Petty's Buried Treasure on SIRIUS XM's Deep Tracks channel every Sunday from 8:00 pm - 12:00 am ET/5:00 pm -9:00 pm PT. Each Sunday's special will kick off with a rebroadcast of the latest show that debuted on Deep Tracks the prior Thursday at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT. The programming will continue with two shows from the Buried Treasure vault as well as an additional encore of Thursday's show.

Each week, Grammy Award(R) -winning singer-songwriter, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Heartbreakers ringleader, Traveling Wilbury and rock legend Tom Petty pulls together a set of rare and classic tracks, many vintage, from his private vaults, for an hour of radio magic woven together with Petty's informed, passionate and entertaining commentary. This season Tom has been particularly inspired by the numerous emails from fans of the show requesting their personal "buried treasures" and their input will no doubt influence Tom's choice of playlists.

Tom Petty, along with legendary musicians including Jimmy Buffett, Bob Dylan, Eminem, Grateful Dead, David Johansen, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Willie Nelson, Mojo Nixon, Elvis Presley, Marky Ramone, Lou Reed, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen and "Little Steven" Van Zandt represent the diverse and creative artist-driven music programming being broadcast by SIRIUS XM today.

SIRIUS XM's Deep Tracks explores classic rock's archives by digging deep into classic rock albums. Deep Tracks listeners will hear Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Bob Dylan and many others.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

MLB.TV Premium and NHL GameCenter LIVE Available Via a Combo Subscription Package Beginning February 16

MLB.com and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a partnership that will make available each league's live online streaming product, MLB.TV Premium and NHL GameCenter LIVE(TM), respectively, through a bundled subscription. This special bundle for United States residents will be available for a one-time fee of

$139.95 beginning Monday, February 16 at MLB.com and NHL.com.

Earlier this month, MLB.TV went on-sale with its full-season package (March-October 2009) for $109.95, a $10 discount off the 2008 yearly pricing, and the NHL will launch its standalone Race for the Cup(TM) streaming product on February 16 for $79.95.

This first-of-its-kind content partnership will allow subscribers to watch every regular season game, more than 100 Spring Training games and the first two rounds of the World Baseball Classic in

2009, via MLB.com, and up to 40 out-of-market NHL games per week for the remainder of the current regular season as well as select Stanley Cup(TM) Playoffs games, via NHL.com (blackout and other restrictions apply).

"We believe this partnership with the NHL is an important initial step in the future of online subscription programming for valuable content providers," said Bob Bowman, MLB.com President and Chief Executive Officer.

"We couldn't be more excited about this tremendous opportunity to introduce our groundbreaking NHL Game Center LIVE experience to an even bigger audience," said NHL Chief Operating Officer John Collins. "MLB.com has built a great business by engaging their audience with a best-in-breed product. This partnership is all about our mutual commitment to deliver world class digital sports experiences to sports fans everywhere."

MLB.TV, now in its seventh season with over a million total subscribers since its inception and 500,000 in 2008 alone, will introduce significant upgrades to its Premium product in 2009. The new MLB.TV Premium will feature proprietary speed detection allowing a hi-definition quality picture on any screen size; live game DVR functionality; live game picture-in-picture capabilities; multi-game viewing options; home and away feeds for every available game; live game radio option; and real-time player tracker alerts for live at-bat look-ins.

NHL GameCenter LIVE streams up to 40 games per week (blackout and other restrictions apply), and is specifically designed for those avid fans looking for the most complete, in-game NHL viewing experience, as well as for the nearly 50 percent of NHL fans that live away from their favorite team's local television market and crave more live game coverage. NHL GameCenter LIVE surrounds these avid hockey fans with TV-quality streaming video, multiple and exclusive camera angles, multi-games views, real-time stats, chat and much more.