Cablevision Systems Corporation Launches New Gateway to Dynamic Broadband Content.Business Editors BETHPAGE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2001 OptOnline.net Transforms Optimum Online Optimum Online (OOL) is a broadband Internet service provider subsidiary of Cablevision. Optimum Online serves Long Island, other parts of New York, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Westchester, parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Cable Modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. Customers' Internet Experience With a Unique Line-Up Of Multimedia Programming and Localized Broadband Content Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CVC See CSC. ) today re-launched OptOnline.net, a powerful new broadband portal that provides Optimum OnlineSM high-speed cable modem service subscribers with a gateway to some of the hottest and most innovative broadband content on the Internet. Optimum Online customers in the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. enjoy the fastest, "always on," Internet connection available for the home. Leveraging that connection, subscribers can now take advantage of OptOnline.net which features the best of broadband programming from Cablevision's own properties like News 12, MSG MSG: see glutamic acid. Networks, American Movie Classics and Radio City Music Hall Radio City Music Hall New York City’s famous cinema; home of the Rockettes. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2338] See : Theater , as well as from premier partners including Audible, ScreamingMedia, Tribune Media Services Tribune Media Services ("TMS") is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company. The company is divided into two divisions, "News and Features" and "Entertainment Products". , ChoiceRadio and more. "Our mission is to provide our subscribers with a premium portal experience that showcases the speed and the bandwidth enabled through their cable modem service," said Gemma Toner, Senior Vice President of High-Speed Data Products at Cablevision. "With Optimum Online and OptOnline.net, consumers have instant access to some of the best broadband content the Internet has to offer right at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ." With the re-launch of OptOnline.net, Cablevision has leveraged its own entertainment properties including Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference , Radio City Music Hall and Clearview Cinemas, and partnered with some of the hottest content and application providers in the industry. Visitors to OptOnline.net can now enjoy text-based entertainment news from AP content feeds, games, and audio clips of the first chapters from thousands of books through Audible.com. In addition, visitors can also listen to up to 30 genre-based music radio stations through ChoiceRadio, and easily locate and enjoy other great broadband Web sites via OptOnline.net's Web recommendations section. "Since OptOnline.net is the first stop on the Web for a majority of our high-speed customers, we want to provide them with the ultimate Web gateway," says Chris Tice, Vice President of Cablevision's eMedia Products group. "That means the very best national and local content and multimedia programming, as well as broadband applications from streaming video and music to movie trailers and spoken word audio." Leveraging Cablevision's unparalleled entertainment and media assets, OptOnline.net delivers a great line-up of local news and resources including up-to-the-minute headlines, weather, stock quotes and traffic reports, as well as localized broadband programming for a unique view into New York metropolitan area happenings. Video clips of upcoming events at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall; highlights of local sporting events such as neighborhood homecoming games and programs from the metro-area's local news provider, News 12; and movie release trailers from Clearview Cinemas are just some of the new services available to Optimum Online subscribers through OptOnline.net. About Cablevision Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve 3 million households located primarily in the New York metropolitan area. The company's advanced telecommunications offerings include its Lightpath integrated business communications services and its Optimum-branded high-speed Internet service. Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. subsidiary operates programming businesses including American Movie Classics, Bravo, Fox Sports Net and other national and regional services. Cablevision also owns a controlling interest controlling interest The ownership of a quantity of outstanding corporate stock sufficient to control the actions of the firm. Controlling interest often involves ownership of significantly less than 51% of a firm's outstanding stock because many owners fail and operates Madison Square Garden and its sports teams including the Knicks and Rangers. The company operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall and owns and operates THE WIZ consumer electronics stores and Clearview Cinemas in the New York metropolitan area. Additional information about Cablevision Systems Corporation is available on the Web at www.cablevision.com. |
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