Products / Services

Partnership Leverages Growing Popularity of VOD with Hispanic Audiences

Los Angeles, CA, August 25, 2009 - Avail-TVN, the largest independent digital media services company in North America today announced an industry-wide VOD services deal with TuTv LLC, a joint venture of Grupo Televisa and Univision Communications Inc., that provides Spanish-language programming to U.S. cable and satellite customers. The deal covers movies from TuTV’s linear channels, De Película and De Película Clásico, featuring high-quality contemporary and classic films.

This announcement comes at an opportune time, as TuTv’s VOD usage for its affiliates continues to rise. In fact, from June 2008 to December 2008, TuTv noticed a 100% increase in VOD orders and expects that trend to continue through summer 2009. To meet the rising demand, TuTv has recently increased its offering from five to 10 movies per month, which will be available at all times through Avail-TVN to TuTv’s affiliates.

“We’re delighted to continue our relationship with TuTv, and to support our mutual affiliates in delivering a rich and entertaining VOD experience to Latino audiences,” said Matt Cohen SVP, Strategy & Business Development for Avail- TVN. “Avail-TVN’s platform enables TuTv to efficiently and cost-effectively reach the broadest audience and meet the growing demand for Spanish-Language VOD content.”

Comprised of a mix of classic and contemporary films, TuTv’s VOD movie package offers a wide variety of genres including comedy, drama, romance, science-fiction, westerns, adventure and action films. Many of Latin America’s favorite celebrities will be featured, including Verónica Castro, Eric del Castillo and Beatriz Adriana; and Golden Era icons like Dolores del Río, Sara García and Pedro Armendáriz.

“Avail-TVN has been a valuable partner in the growth of our VOD movie offering,” said Chris Fager, President of TuTv. “We know this package meets a growing appetite among Latino digital subscribers and is a testament to our interest in partnering with distributors to reach more subscribers.”

Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and extensible to new value services of tomorrow. For more information please visit avail-tvn.com.

Televisa Networks is a subsidiary of Grupo Televisa that specializes in the design, production, programming and distribution of 30 signals in the Pay Television market. Our coverage spans the globe, reaching: Mexico, US, Latin America, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our high talented artists, quality productions, and wide variety of signals, satisfy the entertainment and informational needs of our diverse audience. Televisa Networks produces a large part of the content; this enables us to offer a wide variety of services to our advertisers that go beyond the traditional 30 second spot.

Univision Communications Inc. is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 95% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 85% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 64 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 68 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 5 stations in Puerto Rico; and Univision Interactive Media, which includes http://www.univision.com, the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S., and Univision Móvil, the industry’s most comprehensive Spanish-language suite of mobile offerings. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa’s pay television channels in the U.S. Univision Communications has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States. For more information, please visit www.univision.net.