LodgeNet Announces Top Performing Studio, Top Titles for 2005

LodgeNet Announces Top Performing Studio, Top Titles for 2005

- New Line's Wedding Crashers and Universal's Meet The Fockers Head List Of Top 10 Movies -

- The Walt Disney Company Named Top Studio for Movie Revenues -

- 29 Movies Gross $1 Million; 2 Titles Gross $3 Million -

SIOUX FALLS S.D., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ:LNET), the world's largest provider of interactive television and broadband solutions to hotels, today announced that for the first time in its history, two of the theatrical movie titles offered through its interactive TV systems each grossed more than $3 million dollars in guest room sales.

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New Line's Wedding Crashers and Universal's Meet The Fockers logged the distinction on their way to becoming LodgeNet's top-selling movies of 2005, said William M. Coleman, LodgeNet's Vice President Studio Relations & Film Licensing Worldwide. The remainder of the LodgeNet Top 10 list is as follows:

3. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
4. National Treasure
5. Hitch
6. The Longest Yard
7. 40-Year Old Virgin
8. War of the Worlds
9. Star Wars III
10. The Pacifier

"We are thrilled that Wedding Crashers has been named the top performing movie for LodgeNet in 2005," said David Spiegelman, Senior Executive VP, Domestic Television Distribution & Marketing, New Line Television. "The hotel guest has long been a loyal and valued customer, one that we are able to reach in a million hotel rooms through LodgeNet."

"Meet the Fockers, like its prequel, Meet the Parents, did exceptionally well for us in LodgeNet served hotel rooms," added Michael Bonner, VP New Media, NBC Universal Cable. "Through our partnership with LodgeNet we plan to continue bringing the best in quality entertainment to movie lovers wherever they travel."

The company also announced The Walt Disney Company as the top-performing studio for 2005 based on gross receipts in LodgeNet served hotel rooms. Six Disney titles each made over $1 million this year on LodgeNet systems. Dan Cohen, senior vice president and general manager of Pay Television for Buena Vista Television, said, "It is an honor being named the number one studio. Our success in 2005 was due to placement of a broad range of our films in hotels, from action-adventure hits like National Treasure to family fare such as The Pacifier as well as critically acclaimed dramas like Shall We Dance."

"It is our pleasure to congratulate New Line and Universal for the tremendous success of their movies on our interactive TV systems this year, and to once again commend The Walt Disney Company as the overall top performing studio," said Coleman. "We were thrilled to have 29 titles gross more than one million dollars each during the past year, and we look forward to even greater success in 2006 now that we are releasing selected box office favorites in high definition."

About LodgeNet

LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation ( http://www.lodgenet.com/ ) is the world's largest provider of interactive television and broadband solutions 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, on-demand videogames, Internet on television, and television on-demand programming, 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 interactive guest pay rooms and serves more than 6,000 hotel properties worldwide. LodgeNet estimates that approximately 275 million travelers annually have access to LodgeNet's interactive television systems. LodgeNet is listed on NASDAQ and trades under the symbol LNET.

LodgeNet is a registered trademark of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation. All rights reserved. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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CONTACT: Ann Parker, Director of Corporate Communications, of LodgeNet
Entertainment Corporation, +1-605-988-1000, communications@lodgenet.com

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

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