Comcast Launches KTVT - CBS 11 News ON DEMAND

Comcast Launches KTVT - CBS 11 News ON DEMAND

Customers Can Now Access Local Programming 24 Hours a Day from KTVT - CBS 11 and KTXA - UPN 21

IRVING, Texas, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast and KTVT (CBS 11) today announced a partnership in Dallas to launch KTVT's news programs ON DEMAND throughout the Dallas metro area beginning Tuesday, January 17, 2006. Comcast Dallas is one of a handful of markets in the country to offer news broadcasts on their ON DEMAND Digital Cable service.

Comcast Digital Cable customers will now be able to access news and other local programming from KTVT CBS 11 and sister station KTXA-TV (UPN 21) 24 hours a day at their convenience.

The newscasts from KTVT CBS 11 ON DEMAND are the first local broadcast news programming to become available exclusively to Comcast Digital Cable customers in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties. Each news segment will be available to customers ON DEMAND for no additional charge approximately 30 minutes after it airs live.

"By having news broadcasts from KTVT CBS 11 available ON DEMAND, Comcast can deliver local news and information to our customers in a format that is convenient and easy for them to access," said Troy Fitzhugh, Vice President of Comcast's Dallas system. "The CBS 11 newscasts are just another example of Comcast's commitment to local programming. First we offered the Cowboys ON DEMAND, then the Mavericks and Stars, and now we offer important local news all at the fingertips of our customers. It's television on your terms."

Dallas customers have already taken to the ON DEMAND feature. In 2005, customers viewed more than 40 million ON DEMAND programs.

For more information about Comcast's products and services, please call 1-800-COMCAST or visit the company's Web site at http://www.comcast.com/ .

About ON DEMAND

Comcast ON DEMAND lets digital cable customers select from more than 3,800 program choices including children's shows, movies, sports, and other favorites at any hour of the day or night. Comcast has more than doubled the amount of VOD content over the last two years and recently announced that more than 1,500 movies a year from Starz! will be provided at no additional charge (95 percent of On Demand programming is provided at no additional cost). Shows can be paused, rewound and fast-forwarded using the customer's existing remote control, and stored for up to 24 hours for repeat viewing.

About CBS 11 and UPN 21

KTVT-TV (CBS 11) and KTXA-TV (UPN 21) are part of the CBS Television Stations division, one of the largest network-owned station groups consisting of 21 CBS, 15 UPN, one WB and two stations not affiliated with major networks.

About Comcast

Comcast Corporation (http://www.comcast.com/ ) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.4 million cable customers, 8.1 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content.

The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, OLN, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

Comcast, whose regional offices are located in Irving, serves more than half a million customers and employs more than 1,500 people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

Source: Comcast

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