TV One Adds More Than One Million Subscribers in December, Launches in Key Markets in December 2006 and January 2007

TV One Adds More Than One Million Subscribers in December, Launches in Key Markets in December 2006 and January 2007

SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- TV One added more than one million new subscriber households in December 2006, according to Nielsen Media Research universe estimates, growing from 33.8 million households to nearly 34.9 from December 2006 to January 2007. TV One increased its subscriber base by 42 percent from January 2006 - January 2007, maintaining its #1 rank in distribution year-to-year percentage growth among all Nielsen measured cable networks, adding 10.3 million households during the period.

In December, TV One launched on basic cable on Comcast's cable system in Memphis, as well as on Comcast systems in Grand Rapids, MI, Tucson, AZ, Taos, NM, Gallup, NM, Silver City, NM and Lawrenceburg, TN. TV One also launched in December on Time Warner Cable systems in Greensboro, NC and Columbia, SC and on Buckeye Cablevision's Toledo, OH cable system. So far in January, TV One has launched on Comcast systems in Minneapolis, MN, as well as on the Time Warner Cable system in Akron, OH.

"TV One is now available to cable customers in 45 of the top 50 African American markets," said TV One Executive Vice President of Affiliate Sales and Marketing Brad Samuels. "We appreciate the strong, broad-based support TV One continues to receive from the affiliate community and their customers. We've received tremendous response to TV One from viewers, and we're enjoying great success with our local ad sales and marketing efforts to help our affiliates reach out to an underserved audience and achieve their growth goals."

Launched in January 2004, TV One (http://www.tvoneonline.com/) serves nearly 34.9 million U.S. households, offering a broad range of lifestyle and entertainment-oriented original programming, classic series, movies, fashion and music designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult African American viewers. TV One's investors include Radio One (Nasdaq: ROIA and ROIAK; http://www.radio-one.com/), the largest radio company that primarily targets African American and urban listeners; Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA and CMCSK; http://www.comcast.com/), the leading cable television company in the country; The DirecTV Group; Constellation Ventures; Syndicated Communications; Pacesetter Capital Group; and Opportunity Capital Partners

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