Time Warner Cable Announces New Channel Line-Up, Digital Packaging and Pricing in Los Angeles

Time Warner Cable Announces New Channel Line-Up, Digital Packaging and Pricing in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Just 60 days after the integration of Southern California's Adelphia and Comcast operations, Time Warner Cable, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), announces a series of product and customer service improvements to its acquired systems. Starting next month, Time Warner Cable Los Angeles Region will roll out a regionwide standardized digital channel line-up, new genre-based programming blocks, additional high-definition channels and ethnic-language networks, 100% digital picture and sound, the launch of new High-Speed Online packages, the start of email domain name changes, and the beginning of Digital Phone launches.

To assist customers during this major transition, Time Warner Cable has launched a comprehensive customer communication campaign consisting of television, radio, outdoor and print advertising. Customers also will receive direct mail, bill inserts and email messages to ensure each customer is aware of the myriad changes.

"Today's announcement is a first step in Time Warner Cable's commitment to offer consumers the best in cable products and services," said Roger Keating, Executive Vice President, Time Warner Cable. "We know from customer feedback and proven successes in other parts of the county that customers want more quality programming that's value driven and rich with choice. These enhancements are designed to address these customer needs."

Specifically, customers can look forward to the following changes:

* Digital Channel Line-Up Changes: Once this enhancement is made,
customers can enjoy programming on the same digital channel no matter
what part of the city they live in.

* Genre-Based Programming Blocks: Channels will be grouped in easy-to-
understand categories such as "kids," "sports," "movies" and "HD" (to
minimize on channel surfing).

* 100% Digital Picture and Sound: All channels will now be available
with digital quality picture and sound including basic channels.

* MORE HD, Digital, and Ethnic Language Networks: The new line-up
includes 20 HD channels, a dozen new Spanish-language channels, three
additional Asian-language channels and three networks that cater to the
African American community.

* New High-Speed Online Packages: To give customers more choice in their
broadband services, Time Warner Cable is launching three tiers of Road
Runner service -- Basic for $34.95 a month, Standard for $44.95 a month
and Extreme for $54.95 a month. (Extreme will be launching at end of
the first quarter of 2007.)

* Domain Name Transition: Beginning October 20, former Adelphia.net and
Comcast.net customers will migrate to the Time Warner Cable Road Runner
platform. To ease the transition, emails will be forwarded
automatically for a one year and customers can keep their prefixes.
Domain will change to janesmith@roadrunner.com for previous Adelphia
customers and janesmith@ca.rr.com for former Comcast customers.

* Digital Phone Launch: In mid-December, the newly acquired areas of
Time Warner Cable will begin seeing launches of its new digital phone
packages -- bringing customers access to maximum savings through Time
Warner Cable's bundling offers.

Changes will begin community by community starting October 19, 2006. Customers can go to www.timewarnercable.com/welcome or call 888-twcable for more information.

About Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems serving 14.4 million subscribers in 33 states. Passing approximately 28 million homes, Time Warner Cable includes some of the most technologically advanced and best-clustered cable systems in the country, with nearly 85 percent of the Company's customers located in five geographic regions: New York, Texas, Ohio, the Carolinas and southern California. Leveraging its leadership in innovation and quality customer care, Time Warner Cable delivers advanced products and services such as video on demand, high definition television, digital video recorders, high-speed data and Digital Phone. Time Warner Cable is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX).

Source: Time Warner Cable

CONTACT: Patti Rockenwagner of Time Warner Cable, +1-310-563-5884,
patricia.rockenwagner@twcable.com; or Rick Jennings of BNC, +1-310-854-4896,
rjennings@bncpr.com, for Time Warner Cable

Web site: http://www.timewarnercable.com/welcome

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