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NFLN Selects Avail-TVN to be Long-term Industry-wide VOD Provider

Los Angeles, November 10, 2009 - Avail-TVN™, the largest independent digital media services company in North America today completed an agreement with NFL Network (NFLN) that will extend the scope of their relationship. The agreement expands NFLN’s use of Avail-TVN’s services to the entire industry; including delivery to an additional 17 million VOD enabled homes, and incorporates advanced asset and metadata management services. Avail-TVN will continue to be NFLN’s primary provider of video on demand services with continued support of their highly time- sensitive games and additional VOD packages.

Football fans can see their favorite NFL team battle it out on the gridiron and watch the great touchdown catches and key defensive stands on demand within 24 hours of the game’s completion. In addition, subscribers have access to game highlights from previous weeks, coaches’ commentary and a wide library of content.

“NFL fans want more football and greater access to their favorite teams,” said Anna Petitti, Department Head, Affiliate Partnership Group of NFL Network. “Avail-TVN is the industry leader and by partnering with them we are confident that fans will have faster access than ever before to their favorite team’s game highlights and other NFL content.”

Subscribers have access to a wide variety of NFL content including:

• Library Content Programs - NFL Films archived packages, classic NFL games, NFL Network shows, season-in-review shows and sub-packages by the 32 team markets.
• NFL Replay - Short highlights of all NFL regular season and post-season games played.
• NFL Blitz - Weekly “best of” highlights show of NFL preseason, regular season and playoff games.
• Themed Assets - Seasonal shows that focus on Combine and NFL Draft vignettes, Fantasy Football and Season Previews, Playoff Games, Super Bowl and Pro Bowl themed programming and 32 Season in Review programs

“VOD has become a vital tool for distributing sports entertainment and changing the aspect of game viewing itself,” said Jim Riley, Chief Revenue Officer of Avail-TVN. “NFLN is a leader in the industry when it comes to advanced asset management and our partnership ensures that Avail-TVN will continue to be the main provider for managing their VOD offering.”

NFLE utilizes Avail-TVN’s award winning ADONISS Asset Managment platform that houses all of the content and the Programmer Remote Interface (PRI) that allows each provider to remotely manage their content.

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, the Caribbean and Mexico. 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 is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. For more information please visit avail-tvn.com.

NFL Network airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day on a year-round basis and is the only television network fully dedicated to the NFL and the sport of football. NFL Network gives fans unprecedented access to all NFL events, including the Super Bowl, Playoffs, regular season, preseason, Pro Bowl, Pro Football Hall of Fame induction weekend, NFL Draft, Scouting Combine, Senior Bowl, Insight Bowl, league meetings minicamps and training camps. For more information, log onto www.nfl.com/nflnetwork. NFL.com is the exclusive internet home of NFL Network.