Cablevision Makes It Easy for Customers with High-Definition Television Sets to Experience ‘March Madness’ in HD on iO TV(SM)
Posted on March 18, 2008
Filed Under Digital Entertainment / Blogtainment, Digital Video, Gadgets
BETHPAGE, N.Y., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — With the tip-off of
the 2008 NCAA College Basketball Tournament just days away, Cablevision
Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) is reminding customers who have purchased
high-definition television sets that the transition from
standard-definition to HD is quick, easy, and — for current iO TV digital
customers — free. Unlike its competitors, Cablevision does not charge
customers any additional equipment or programming fees to receive HD
channels.
“Cablevision offers 45 of the best high-definition channels, including
all of the HD games of all nine New York-area professional sports teams, at
no additional cost,” said John Trierweiler, Cablevision’s senior vice
president of product management. “We have made it easy for more than one
million of our iO TV customers with high-definition television sets to
experience sports, movies, and other programming — like this year’s NCAA
College Basketball Tournament — with the superior picture and sound made
possible by HD.”
iO TV customers who have purchased high-definition television sets and
are seeking to experience their favorite events including the NCAA
Tournament, 2008 Masters Golf Championship, American Idol finale and more
in crystal clear HD can simply exchange their existing standard-definition
digital set-top box for an HD-capable box at one of the 48 Cablevision
walk-in centers located throughout the New York metropolitan area. New
customers can call 1-866-218-3259 to order service and installation.
Additional information can be found at http://www.cablevision.com.
With more than 2.6 million iO TV digital cable customers, 84 percent of
Cablevision’s cable customers have embraced the company’s digital service,
the highest rate of digital penetration in the nation. iO TV offers
customers access to more than 360 channels, including 53 premium movie
channels, 48 channels of commercial-free digital music, more than 2,000
titles available on demand at all times, an interactive programming guide,
45 high-definition programming services and groundbreaking interactive
television applications including News 12 Interactive.
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: Interactive Optimum(R) digital television, 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 Corporation
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