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Give the FCC clear broadband authority

The following editorial appeared in the Seattle Times on Friday, June 18:

The Federal Communications Commission is looking at consumer-friendly rules that treat broadband access as a common carrier, the way telecommunications companies have been regulated for generations. The effort deserves strong support.

Howling by Internet-service providers is an indication FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is headed in the right direction. His proposed rules of the road focus on open access to broadband services.

The chairman is making a welcome effort to address a federal-court ruling that existing regulations do not give the FCC authority to write and enforce Net-neutrality directives to the industry.

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Bridgevine Announces The Appointment Of Dale Motyl as Chief Technology Officer

Vero Beach, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia— Bridgevine Inc. a leading Internet marketing company, today announces the appointment of Dale Motyl as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Bridgevine Motyl held senior technical leadership positions at AT&T, Cap Gemini, SBI and Company, and NCS Technologies, and has years of experience in multi-tier application development, Internet/intranet application design for such industries as hospitality, retail, health care, telecommunications and cable TV.

With over 20 years of experience working with technology and as a software developer supporting fortune 500 companies, Motyl will guide the development and implementations of all technology platforms at Bridgevine.

“Dale’s experience in the areas of software architecture, development and management of teams supporting ecommerce, call center and data warehousing projects is a perfect fit for the diverse requirements we have here at Bridgevine,” states Bridgevine President and COO, Mickey Smith. “Dale will be calling on his vast experience at successfully managing projects involving in-house, outsourced and offshore development resources.”

ABOUT BRIDGEVINE, INC.
Bridgevine is an Internet marketing company that seamlessly connects its advertising clients with new, high quality customers, and its merchandising affiliates with integrated customer monetization solutions. Its proprietary, PCI-certified platform acquires leads through multiple sources, including search, e-tail and retail, and then offers consumers a variety of services and money-saving bundles from participating brands. The company has expedited more than 8 million transactions generating over $1 billion in incremental revenue for a number of world-class partners. It has been cited on the Inc. 500 list two times, as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 list, and is backed by major investors such as Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE) and Constellation Ventures/JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM).

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Comcast Increases On Demand Movie Lineup by 450 Percent Bringing 11,000+ Movie Choices to Customers

Explosion of Entertainment Choices Begins National Roll Out Today in Xfinity Markets

Comcast announced today it is expanding the number of movie choices offered On Demand more than 450% by adding nearly 9,000 movie titles. This brings more than 11,000 total movie choices to customers monthly, featuring thousands of movies from every genre including comedy, action, drama, independent, classics and documentaries – with 3,000 available in HD. The expanded movie offering brings the total number of Comcast On Demand choices to more than 25,000.

This significant increase in movie content will begin launching in Comcast’s Xfinity markets in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, and will continue rolling out to Comcast Digital Cable customers across the country. This is made possible by a new content storage and distribution system via Comcast’s extensive fiber network and enables the company to offer significantly more content in the near future, including TV series, kids content, music and other special programming.

Comcast’s wide-ranging On Demand movie lineup features new release films such as: Nine, Leap Year, The Blind Side, Crazy Heart, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Twilight: New Moon as well as classics like Casablanca, The Exorcist, The Godfather and The Blues Brothers. For a list of the Comcast expanded movie offering On Demand click here.

"It's the biggest thing we've ever done in On Demand. We're revolutionizing our service with a system that is capable of delivering infinite choice," said Derek Harrar, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Video and Entertainment Services for Comcast. "This is another important step in bringing consumers the multiplatform experience they want.”

To deliver on the growing consumer appetite for multiplatform entertainment viewing, Comcast offers a large collection of movies online at no additional cost on Fancast XFINITY TV. Also, through Fancast XFINITY TV, customers can access nearly 1,500 movies from their cable subscription, and can buy or rent approximately 5,500 movies from the Fancast.com store. A full list of movies is available through Fancast XFINITY TV.

Comcast’s expanded movie offering and movie collections are part of the company’s commitment to innovation and the delivery of exponentially more quality content anytime, anywhere, including more movies across multiple platforms. The company will continue to focus on increasing the number of content choices available to customers through its Xfinity TV, Voice and Internet services that are rolling out in markets across the country this year.

About Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is one of the nation's leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 23.5 million cable customers, 16.3 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.9 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, 11 regional sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, which owns two professional sports teams, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, and a large, multipurpose arena in Philadelphia, the Wachovia Center, and manages other facilities for sporting events, concerts and other events.

Bridgevine Names Mickey Smith President and Chief Operating Officer

Vero Beach, FL—Bridgevine Inc. announces the promotion of Mickey Smith from Chief Operating Officer to President and Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Smith has over 23 years of successful management experience in competitive, customer-driven environments. Mr. Smith’s expertise in developing systems and controls that deliver the highest levels of customer service has benefited Bridgevine’s goal of becoming the premier online marketing company for services and products

“As COO for the past 3 years Mickey has been instrumental to the growth and success of Bridgevine,” states Vinny Olmstead, CEO of Bridgevine. “This promotion formalizes Mickey’s expanded responsibilities and represents a commitment to our customers which has always been his focus.” “Mickey will continue to focus on internal operations as the “voice of the customers” and by providing world class service to our impressive list of advertising clients.”

“Our goal is to anticipate the needs of our customers by continually expanding our platform and offering top quality services”, states Mickey Smith.

ABOUT BRIDGEVINE, INC.
Bridgevine is an Internet marketing company that seamlessly connects its advertising clients with new, high quality customers, and its merchandising affiliates with integrated customer monetization solutions. Its proprietary, PCI-certified platform acquires leads through multiple sources, including search, e-tail and retail, and then offers consumers a variety of services and money-saving bundles from participating brands. The company has expedited more than 8 million transactions generating over $1 billion in incremental revenue for a number of world-class partners. It has been cited on the Inc. 500 list two times, as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 list, and is backed by major investors such as Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE) and Constellation Ventures/JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM).

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Bridgevine Earns PCI Certification and Sets Security Bar for Internet Marketing Providers

Vero Beach, Fla.—March 23, 2010—Bridgevine today announced that it has earned PCI DDS certification as a PCI Level I Service Provider. The designation, granted by the PCI Security Standards Council, minimizes the company’s business risk and protects their advertiser and affiliate partner brands’ important financial processing information. The award is a testament to the high security measures put in place by Bridgevine, as it capped off an infrastructure strengthening initiative, and completed rigorous scans on firewall security and compliance.
PCI DSS is the payment card industry’s security standard for enterprises that process, store or transmit cardholder data. This comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data.

“Obtaining Level I PCI certification is an immense accomplishment for Bridgevine, and a true validation of the security measures we’ve taken to protect our customers,” says Vinny Olmstead, Chief Executive Officer of Bridgevine. “This designation strengthens our advertiser services, and proves our affiliate Internet marketing programs are handled with the utmost care and security. We’re proud to give our customers the peace of mind that comes from knowing our internal processes and controls have been rigorously tested and validated according to industry standards.”

Companies that receive PCI DDS certification adhere to six core principles, including building and maintaining a secure network; protecting cardholder data and regularly monitoring and testing their networks.

Advertisers come to Bridgevine to generate customer relationships through world-class online marketing capabilities coupled with a proprietary services merchandising platform. Advertisers may choose to have their brands distributed through Bridgevine’s affiliate partners, gaining access to new distribution channels operated by leading players in e-tail, retail and call centers. The Bridgevine Network can generate substantial value for advertisers.

ABOUT BRIDGEVINE, INC.
Bridgevine is an Internet marketing company that seamlessly connects its advertising clients with new, high quality customers, and its merchandising affiliates with integrated customer monetization solutions. Its proprietary, PCI-certified platform acquires leads through multiple sources, including search, e-tail and retail, and then offers consumers a variety of services and money-saving bundles from its expanding base of participating brands. The company has expedited more than 8 million transactions generating over $1 billion in incremental revenue for a number of world class partners. It has been cited on the Inc. 500 list two times, as well as the Deloitte Fast 500 list, and is backed by major investors such as Safeguard Scientific (NYSE: SFE) and Constellation Venture/JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM).

Broadcasters on board with FCC National Broadband Plan

News by Todd Haselton on Tuesday March 16, 2010.

Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released details on its National Broadband Plan, which it hopes will help deliver affordable broadband to over 98 million Americans, improve our broadband infrastructure overall, and spur competition in the market.

Part of the plan requests and additional 500MHz of wireless spectrum by 2020, and 300MHz in the next three years, some of which would need to come from American broadcasting companies. Despite predictions that broadcasting networks would be against giving up spectrum, some are on board, Reuters reports. MORE

MegaPath Honors Top Channel Partners with New Award Program

First Ever Partner Awards Puts the Spotlight on Top Channel Performers for 2009 Channel Partners Conference & Expo

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MegaPath Inc., the leading provider of managed IP data, voice and security services in North America, announced the winners of the company’s inaugural 2009 Partner Awards at a private reception held Monday night during the Channel Partners Conference & Expo. These awards – Pinnacle, Best Year-over-Year Growth and Rookie of the Year – honor MegaPath’s channel partners for their dedication and successes over the course of the year by selling the company’s line of business-class broadband, voice and data and MPLS VPN services.

And the winners are…

Pinnacle Award: Telarus – As the partner that achieved the greatest overall success in 2009, Telarus embraced the true spirit of the MegaPath Channel Partner Program by providing their customers cost-effective, enterprise-level solutions that met their telecommunications needs. By utilizing innovative quoting tools and providing training and support to engage with Channel Managers and Sub Agents, Telarus offered MegaPath’s award winning broadband, MPLS and DuetSM line of services to its customers.

Best Year-over-Year Growth Award: Intelisys – Awarded to the partner with the greatest increase in growth from 2008 to 2009, Intelisys grew its revenue through a successful sales strategy by providing its customers with MegaPath’s innovative product line of broadband and voice and data services. As a Master Partner that sells through sub agents across the United States, the Company enabled the channel to close more deals and offered world class support.

Rookie of the Year Award: Bridgevine – As a new member to the Master Partner Program, Bridgevine hit the ground running in 2009 and has no intention of stopping in 2010. By taking advantage of the tools and resources provided by MegaPath, the Company was able to drive demand amongst its customers via an aggressive online marketing campaign. Since signing-on as a partner, Bridgevine’s customers have benefited by being more productive and realizing cost-savings by implementing MegaPath’s services such as its Duet and T1 offerings.

“In 2009, MegaPath put an increased emphasis on the channel by investing in programs and developing products and services that were based on partner feedback on what their customer’s were looking for in broadband and voice and data services,” said Dan Foster, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, MegaPath. “In providing our partners with training and marketing tools, as well as innovative products, our partners have realized financial success. We applaud the winners of the MegaPath Partner Awards, and look forward to the continued success of all our partners in 2010.”

In 2009, MegaPath created the Channel Partner Advisory Council to foster communication between the company and its valued channel partners. The council is chartered with guiding the strategic direction of the channel program and helping align the goals of MegaPath and its partners. In addition, Foster was selected to PHONE+ magazine and Channel Partners Conference & Expo joint 2009-2010 advisory board.

About MegaPath Inc.

MegaPath is the leading provider of managed IP communications services in North America. MegaPath leverages its wide selection of broadband connectivity, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP) and security technologies to enable businesses to lower costs, increase security and enhance productivity. Businesses of all sizes can easily and securely communicate between their headquarters, branch offices, retail locations, mobile workers, and business partners. To learn more about why 20,000 companies have chosen MegaPath’s managed IP data, voice and security services to improve their business communications, visit www.megapath.com or call 1-877-MegaPath (634-2728).

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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.”

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.”

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.

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.

AT&T seeks telecom rule change

AT&T may now be able to provide television service over phone lines, but it’s a whole different matter when it comes to marketing that line of business to landline customers.

When customers tell AT&T they want to switch to another phone provider, AT&T can’t use its new TV offering – or any of its other services – to try to keep them as phone customers.

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