LodgeNet Named Interactive TV Services Provider for All Properties of Concord Hospitality Enterprises

LodgeNet Named Interactive TV Services Provider for All Properties of Concord Hospitality Enterprises

LodgeNet Services to Be Extended to Management Company's Full Portfolio

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. and RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ:LNET), one of the world's largest providers of interactive television systems and broadband services to hotels, and Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company announced today that Concord has named LodgeNet as the provider of interactive TV services for all of its owned and managed hotels in the United States, representing brands including Marriott, Courtyard by Marriott, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Fairfield Inn and Suites, and Radisson.

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The agreement, covering 30 properties, doubles the number of Concord properties LodgeNet currently serves in the U.S. and increases by more than 70 percent the number of Concord's U.S. guest rooms that will feature LodgeNet services.

LodgeNet will install all Concord properties with its sigNETure TV(SM) marketing and entertainment system and services including on-demand digital movies, music, TV programming and shorter form videos -- all enhanced with LodgeNet's media playback controls for skip, pause and save functionality -- along with TV GameRoom(SM) video games and a variety of interactive guest services.

"We are happy to be continuing our relationship with Concord Hospitality, and we appreciate the opportunity to expand our services to their entire North American hotel base," said Steve McCarty, Senior Vice President Sales and Hotel Relations for LodgeNet. "We view this agreement as a vote of confidence from a valued customer and another step toward extending our presence across even more of the best known lodging brands."

"In light of our future objectives and LodgeNet's record with the Concord properties they already serve, we have decided to transition the balance of our hotels to them as well," said Bob Micklash, Chief Operations Officer for Concord Hospitality. "We believe that having all of our properties served by a single in-room entertainment provider will streamline our corporate operations while ensuring a consistent, high-quality television experience in every guest room of our portfolio."

About LodgeNet

LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation ( http://www.lodgenet.com/ ) is one of the world's largest providers of interactive television systems and broadband services to hotels, including resort and casino hotels, throughout the United States and Canada as well as select international markets. These services include on-demand movies, music and music videos, Nintendo(R) video games, Internet on television, and other interactive television services, as well as high-speed Internet access, all designed to serve the needs of the lodging industry and the traveling public. LodgeNet provides service to more than one million rooms, including 985,000 interactive guest pay rooms, in more than 5,900 hotel properties worldwide. LodgeNet estimates that during 2004 approximately 275 million travelers had access to LodgeNet's interactive television systems. LodgeNet is listed on NASDAQ and trades under the symbol LNET.

About Concord Hospitality Enterprises

Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company ( http://www.concordhotels.com/ ) was established in 1985 to acquire and develop hotel properties and to provide experienced hotel management to both full-service and limited-service properties. Today Concord operates 43 hotels with 5,499 rooms in ten states and three provinces in Canada, with combined annual revenues of over US $145 million. Hotel brands include the following: Marriott full service, Renaissance, Courtyard by Marriott, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites, Fairfield Inn and Suites, and Fairfield Inn, Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Holiday Inn, and Radisson. The Company also operates a four-star independent hotel, The Clinton Inn. Concord's corporate office is located in Raleigh, North Carolina.

NOTE: This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of federal securities law, including statements concerning business strategies and their intended results, and similar statements concerning anticipated future events and expectations that are not historical facts. The forward-looking statements in this press release are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including the effects of economic conditions; supply and demand changes for hotel rooms and LodgeNet products and services; competitive conditions in the lodging industry; technological developments, developmental difficulties and delays; relationships with clients and property owners; changes in the Company's relationships with strategic partners; potential effects of litigation; the availability of capital to finance growth; the impact of government regulations; and other factors detailed, from time to time, in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward- looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

LodgeNet, sigNETure TV and TV GameRoom are service marks or registered trademarks of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation. All rights reserved. Other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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CONTACT: Ann Parker, Director of Corporate Communications of LodgeNet
Entertainment Corporation, +1-605-988-1000, communications@lodgenet.com , or
Amy Laport, Corporate Director of Communications of Concord Hospitality
Enterprises Company, +1-919-455-2900, a.laport@concordhotels.com

Web site: http://www.lodgenet.com/
http://www.concordhotels.com/


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