Summer Travel Planning is Easier Than Ever With Cablevision's Optimum Suite of Advanced Digital Services and News 12

Summer Travel Planning is Easier Than Ever With Cablevision's Optimum Suite of Advanced Digital Services and News 12

Optimum Online(R), Optimum Voice(R), iO TV(SM), And News 12 Provide Essential Tools For Easy Travel Planning This Summer

BETHPAGE, N.Y., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Planning for a summer vacation has never been easier, thanks to Cablevision's Optimum suite of advanced digital services, as well as News 12 -- the country's first, largest, and most watched 24-hour local television news network. With the unofficial start of summer -- Memorial Day weekend -- around the corner, Cablevision customers have the advantage of the Optimum Network and superior products like Optimum Online, Optimum Voice, and News 12 to Go to make travel plans and get on the road this summer.

"Optimum customers have the benefit of essential tools that make planning a summer trip or vacation easier than ever before," said John Trierweiler, Cablevision's Senior Vice President of Product Management. "Our customers can use Optimum Online to book hotels and flights, use our Optimum Wi-Fi community zones to access the web from popular summer destinations, and stay informed with News 12's Traffic and Weather Channel or the News 12 to Go mobile service. These are just a few of the advantages that Optimum provides to its customers at no additional cost."

There are many benefits for Optimum customers who are planning their summer vacations, or want to stay connected to home while they're away this summer. From planning and booking a Disney Vacation on iO TV's Disney Travel on Demand Channel to using Optimum Voice's advanced features such as "Find Me" and Call Forwarding, Optimum makes summer travel easier in a multitude of ways.

Optimum Online
-- The speed and performance of Optimum Online makes online research,
booking travel, and uploading vacation photos quick and easy. Optimum
Online offers customers downstream speeds of up to 15 megabits-per-
second (Mbps) and upstream speeds of up to 2 Mbps. Up to 30 Mbps
downstream and 5 Mbps upstream with Optimum Online Boost, the fastest
broadly-deployed Internet service in the nation.
-- Optimum Wi-Fi Community Zones allow Optimum Online customers to access
the web for free from popular summer destinations like the Long Beach
Boardwalk on Long Island, downtown Sag Harbor, and on the Bridgeport-
Port Jefferson Ferry line. Customers can also use one of 15 local
Optimum Wi-Fi zones to do research or make plans anywhere, at anytime.
-- Optimum.net allows customers to stay connected to home, from wherever
they are. The online portal enables users to access their Optimum
email or voicemail from the web.
-- Optimum Online Boost also offers the benefit of free web hosting,
allowing customers to create family web sites where they can share
photos and videos with family and friends the world over.

Optimum Voice
-- Access voice mail or have calls "find" you -- anywhere in the
continental U.S. this summer. Optimum Voice is available exclusively
to Optimum Online high-speed Internet customers. The service includes
unlimited calling across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Optimum
Voice has more than 13 advanced features available at no additional
charge to Optimum Voice customers.
-- Enhanced Voice Mail -- Enhanced Voicemail provides all the features of
an answering machine combined with the power of the web. Like standard
voicemail, customers can listen to messages, create personal greetings
and access their mailbox from any location. Enhanced voicemail also
allows users to use the web to check voicemail; receive voicemail
messages through email; or even have the voicemail system send their
cell phone a text message alerting them of any new voice messages.
-- Call Forwarding -- automatically redirects incoming calls to a
forwarding number so customers never miss an important phone call.
With Call Forwarding, the incoming call will ring on whatever phone
number is chosen, like a cell phone or a work number, instead of their
Optimum Voice line.
-- Find Me -- calls to a customer's Optimum Voice line will simultaneously
ring up to three additional phone lines, like a cell phone or work
number. The incoming call can be answered by any of the phone lines,
and the call will be connected to whichever phone answers first.

Optimum Voice World Call
-- For customers planning to travel overseas this summer, Cablevision
offers an innovative flat-rate international calling plan, Optimum
Voice World Call, giving customers up to 250 minutes per month of
calling anywhere in the world, including up to 30 minutes of calls to
Cuba, from their Optimum Voice phone for a flat monthly fee.

iO TV
-- Book a dream Disney vacation this summer using iO TV's Disney Travel On
Demand Channel. Original programming that combines innovation,
storytelling and the power of interactive television to deliver
soup-to-nuts vacation planning and entertainment to television viewers.
-- Exclusively on Cablevision's system channel 650, viewers with a
Scientific Atlanta digital cable box can communicate directly with a
Disney travel representative from the comfort of their own homes with
the innovative "Talk To Agent" feature. With the click of a button on
the remote control, viewers will receive a telephone call back from a
live Disney travel representative within 15 minutes to help make all
their travel arrangements at one of Disney's destinations: Walt Disney
World Resort in Florida, Disneyland Resort in California and Adventures
by Disney vacations.

News 12
-- Traffic can be a vacationer's worst nightmare. With News 12 to Go,
tri-state residents can access local news and valuable traffic and
weather information wherever they are, whenever they want. News 12 to
Go is an innovative service that delivers continually updated local
traffic, weather, and news information to users over their cell phones.
This free enhancement allows Cablevision customers who receive News 12
as part of their cable television service to access live audio streams
of both News 12 and News 12 Traffic and Weather simply by dialing a
phone number. Web-enabled cell phones can also access additional
benefits and advanced features. Certain charges may be imposed by
wireless carriers.
-- Before summer travelers hit the road, they can tune to News 12's
Traffic and Weather Channel for round-the-clock weather forecasts and
traffic information. The Traffic and Weather channels feature more
than 550 traffic cameras capturing current conditions throughout the
tri-state area, for up-to-the minute traffic and weather reports.

Optimum Store
-- Before leaving for their summer vacation, customers looking for great
deals on digital cameras, video cameras, music and games, portable DVD
players, GPS navigation, and satellite radio can go to the Optimum
Store, located at http://www.optimum.com/store/index.jsp.

About Cablevision

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE:CVC) is one of the nation's leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve more than 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company's advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO TV(SM), Optimum Online(R) high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice(R) digital voice-over-cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services. Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates several successful programming businesses, including AMC, IFC, WE tv and other national and regional networks. In addition to its telecommunications and programming businesses, Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall, and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.

Source: Cablevision Systems Corp.

CONTACT: Sarah Chaikin of Cablevision Systems Corp., +1-516-803-2352

Web site:

http://www.cablevision.com/

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