MediaFLO USA Cooks up a Mobile TV Feast This Holiday Season With FOOD NETWORK on FLO TV

MediaFLO USA Cooks up a Mobile TV Feast This Holiday Season With FOOD NETWORK on FLO TV

- For the First Time, Scripps Networks Brings Seasonal Programming from Food Network, HGTV, DIY Network and Fine Living Network to Mobile TV -

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MediaFLO USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), and Scripps Networks have announced FOOD NETWORK, a new FLO TV(TM) lifestyle service that gives AT&T Mobile TV customers a feast of home and cooking programming in time for their Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year's and bowl game celebrations. This is Scripps Networks' first mobile TV offering and will air content that includes bites of programming favorites from Food Network, as well as HGTV shows such as "Myles of Style" and "Design on a Dime," and popular shows from DIY Network and Fine Living Network. FOOD will run mid-November through February 3, 2009.

The new addition to FLO TV's award-winning service provides consumers with compelling, timely and entertaining lifestyle content covering such topics as how to prepare a memorable meal, upgrade your kitchen and create festive decorations. The FOOD programming will feature a galaxy of popular Food Network TV talent including Paula Dean, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis and Rachael Ray. The addition of FOOD programming to the line-up underscores MediaFLO USA's commitment to providing viewers the highest quality information and entertainment available.

"The holiday season is full of entertaining, and people are trying to do more with their limited time," said Lisa Choi Owens, Scripps Networks' senior vice president of online partnerships and distribution. "Being able to discover new recipes, ideas and time saving tips for how to make the most of their special occasions while on the go makes a lot of sense. FLO TV provides another outlet for Scripps Networks' fans looking for the great entertainment and information our brands provide."

"Scripps Networks is the ideal media outlet to provide FLO TV viewers with entertaining and helpful lifestyle programming for the holidays," said Jonathan Barzilay, senior vice president of programming and advertising at MediaFLO USA. "With our new mobile TV service, consumers can enjoy cooking and decorating tips any place or any time as they prepare for special occasions."

All programs featured on the FLO TV service are available to consumers through leading wireless operators in more than 63 major metropolitan areas nationwide, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C. To learn more about FLO TV and to see the full FOOD NETWORK programming line-up, please visit www.flotv.com. FLO TV is available to AT&T subscribers as AT&T Mobile TV. All programming is subject to change.

About Scripps Networks

Scripps Networks is comprised of the lifestyle television brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network and country music network Great American Country (GAC). Scripps is the dominant media and marketing company in the home, food and lifestyle categories, developing content for television and the Internet, where on-air programming is complemented with an array of broadband video, social media areas and e-commerce components on companion Web sites that attract more than 18.5 million unique visitors each month.

In addition, Scripps Networks has launched HGTV and Food Network in high definition and is aggressively developing its emerging media platforms for broadband and video on demand. Scripps Networks also acquired popular recipe Web site Recipezaar.com and Incando Corp. in order to deepen its user-generated content capabilities. Scripps Networks' brands collectively are available in more than 170 countries and territories on all seven continents. They also are distributed to more than 1,000 outlets on U.S. military bases and U.S. embassies around the world via the American Forces Radio and Television Service.

Headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Nashville and San Francisco, Scripps Networks is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE:SNI), the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet. The company's media portfolio includes: Lifestyle Media, with popular lifestyle television brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Fine Living Network and country music network Great American Country (GAC); and Interactive Services, including leading online search and comparison shopping services, Shopzilla and uSwitch.

About MediaFLO USA Inc.

MediaFLO USA Inc. unleashes the power of TV for mobile consumers, combining the best content, an intuitive user interface and a superior multicast network to deliver a true TV experience. The award-winning FLO TV service from MediaFLO USA offers full-length simulcast and time-shifted programming from the world's best entertainment brands, including CBS, CBS College Sports, CBS News, CNBC, COMEDY CENTRAL, ESPN, FOX, FOX News, FOX Sports, MSNBC, MTV, NBC 2Go, NBC, NBC Sports, NBC News, NickToons and Nickelodeon. Based in San Diego, Calif., MediaFLO USA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. Further information is available at both www.mediaflousa.com and www.flotv.com.

MediaFLO, MediaFLO USA, FLO and FLO TV are trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All programming subject to change.

Qualcomm Contacts:
Melinda Hutcheon, MediaFLO USA
Phone: 1-858-651-7334
Email: melindah@qualcomm.com

Emily Kilpatrick, Corporate Communications
Phone: 1-858-845-5959
Email: corpcomm@qualcomm.com

John Gilbert, Investor Relations
Phone: 1-858-658-4813
Email: ir@qualcomm.com

Source: MediaFLO USA Inc.

CONTACT: Melinda Hutcheon, MediaFLO USA, +1-858-651-7334,
melindah@qualcomm.com, or Emily Kilpatrick, Corporate Communications,
+1-858-845-5959, corpcomm@qualcomm.com, or John Gilbert, Investor Relations,
+1-858-658-4813, ir@qualcomm.com, all of Qualcomm

Web site: http://www.qualcomm.com/
http://www.mediaflousa.com/

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