TVN Reaches Deal For Discovery Communications VOD Service

  • April 15, 2003
TVN Entertainment Corp. said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Discovery Communications, Inc. Under the agreement TVN will distribute, encode and provide asset management of approximately 30 hours of VOD (video on demand) programming per month. Programming from all Discovery's U.S. Networks is covered under the agreement, including the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel, The Science Channel?, Discovery Wings Channel, Discovery Home & Leisure Channel, The Health Network and Discovery en Espanol. Insight Communications will be the first to launch the Discovery Kids programming as part of its Kids Unlimited package. The package retails for $9.95 and features quality kids fare updated with fresh content monthly. Discovery's VOD content is also available to TVN's VOD affiliates, including Comcast, Charter, Adelphia, Cablevision and Mediacom, as well as several other US and Canadian MSOs.

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