AT&T U-verse TV to Include FOX News Channel

AT&T U-verse TV to Include FOX News Channel

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and FOX News Channel (FNC), a wholly owned division of News Corporation (NYSE:NWS), today announced a distribution agreement to deliver FNC programming as part of the AT&T U-verse(SM) TV channel lineup.

Under the agreement, AT&T U-verse TV customers will have access to FNC's live programming, covering breaking news around the globe, as well as political, business and entertainment news.

"Fox News is a very popular cable news source, and its programming is a valuable addition to our robust U-verse channel lineup," said Dan York, head of programming, AT&T Operations, Inc.

"We look forward to working with AT&T to bring our quality programming to customers through U-verse television services," said Tim Carry, senior vice president of Affiliate Relations, FNC.

AT&T U-verse TV is delivered by Project Lightspeed, the company's initiative to expand the fiber-optics network deeper into neighborhoods to deliver U-verse TV, AT&T Yahoo!(R) High Speed Internet U-verse Enabled and, in the future, Voice over IP services. Through its subsidiaries, AT&T expects to reach nearly 19 million households by the end of 2008 as part of its initial deployment, using fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technologies.

Financial and other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Find More Information Online

Video:

-- AT&T U-verse Demos and Tours
( http://www.sbc.com/Uverse/files/tours_demos/index.html?movieName=intro )

-- Current Features and Planned Capabilities of AT&T U-verse TV
( http://att.sbc.com/Common/files/multimedia/att_u-verse_0523.wmv )

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( http://att.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=23002 )

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( http://att.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22697 )

-- AT&T U-verse TV to Include Bloomberg Television
( http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=22414 )

Related Media Kits:

-- U-verse ( http://www.att.com/uverse_news )

Web Links:

-- AT&T U-verse Web Site
( http://uverse.att.com/ )

-- FTTX
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTTX )

-- IPTV
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTV )

Note: This AT&T release and other news announcements are available as part of an RSS feed at http://www.att.com/rss .

About AT&T

AT&T Inc. is one of the world's largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, AT&T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to business and as leading U.S. providers of high speed DSL Internet, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services. AT&T Inc. holds a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which is the No. 1 U.S. wireless services provider with 58.7 million wireless customers. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and AT&T products and services is available at http://www.att.com/ .

Subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. provide products and services under the AT&T brand.

For more information and detailed disclaimer information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom .

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Source: AT&T Inc.

CONTACT: Destiny Belknap of AT&T Inc., +1-214-665-1314,
dbelknap@attnews.us

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