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Cox Business/Hospitality Network Features National Lampoon Content for Pay-Per-View Hotel Guests in Las Vegas.


LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- Cox Business/Hospitality Network, a leading provider of in-room guest video and data technology services to the hotel-gaming industry, today announced an agreement with National Lampoon (AMEX AMEX

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: NLN NLN National League for Nursing. ) to deliver original classic content, as well as new feature films, on a pay-per-view basis to over 80,000 Las Vegas guest rooms.

Under the terms of the agreement, Hospitality Network will show original content from the National Lampoon feature film library that includes classic and other original in-house produced titles, as well as new acquisitions from emerging filmmakers. The content will be available to hotel guests on a pay-per-view basis as part of the hotel property's cable television services package.

David Blau, vice president and general manager of Cox Business and Hospitality Network, notes, "We're thrilled about adding National Lampoon content to our wide array of existing news, sports and entertainment programming to Las Vegas visitors. This new content allows our resort partners to provide even more viewing options to suit the tastes of their constantly shifting demographics."

In addition to its in-house productions, National Lampoon is expanding its feature library by acquiring rights to former National Lampoon movies and independent comedy features from some of the industry's best emerging and established filmmakers. National Lampoon has recently released their first original in-house production "National Lampoon's Bagboy," Les Claypool's directorial debut "Electric Apricot: The Quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby"
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 Festeroo," and will soon release Adam Rifkin's (Small Soldiers, Underdog) "National Lampoon's Homo Erectus Homo erectus (hō`mō ērĕk`təs), extinct hominid living between 1.6 million and 250,000 years ago. Homo erectus is thought to have evolved in Africa from H. habilis, the first member of the genus Homo. ."

"Hospitality Network is a trusted provider of entertainment in some of the most prestigious hotel properties in Las Vegas," said Tom Daniels, President of World Wide Distribution for National Lampoon. "With access to the National Lampoon library of content, guests can access great comedy with friends and family without leaving the room."

Hotel guests can expect to view up to twelve new National Lampoon titles per year comprised of four original movies and up to eight acquisitions.

About National Lampoon

National Lampoon, Inc. (AMEX: NLN) has been a dominant force in the US comedy world for almost 40 years, and is currently active in a broad array of media and entertainment segments. These include feature films, television programming, online and interactive entertainment, home video, audio, and book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. . The Company also owns interests in all major National Lampoon properties, including National Lampoon's Animal House This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims.

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, the National Lampoon Vacation series and National Lampoon's Van Wilder. National Lampoon reaches nearly one in four of all 18 to 24 year old college students in America today. The Company has three core operating divisions: National Lampoon Films, which includes production along with theatrical and video distribution of feature films; College Marketing Division; and National Lampoon Networks, providing humor content through a number of platforms. These include its National Lampoon College TV network, the National Lampoon Humor Network - the most trafficked humor sites on the web, Toga TV.com - the company's broadband channel, the Drunk University Network, and the National Lampoon Video Network, which includes channels on YouTube, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Yahoo, Joost, and a number of digital video platforms across the Internet. These are all anchored by the award-winning comedy website www.nationallampoon.com

About Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6.  

Cox Communications is a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company with more than 6.2 million total residential and commercial customers. The third-largest cable television company in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Cox offers an array of advanced digital video, high-speed Internet See broadband.  and telephony services over its own nationwide IP network, as well as integrated wireless services. Cox Business is a full-service, facilities-based provider of communications solutions for commercial customers, providing high-speed Internet, voice and long distance services, as well as data and video transport services for small to large-sized businesses. Cox Media offers national and local cable advertising in traditional spot and new media formats, along with promotional opportunities and production services. Cox Communications wholly owns and operates the Travel Channel. More information about the services of Cox Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

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In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of Cox Enterprises, is available at www.cox.com, www.coxbusiness.com, and www.coxmedia.com.
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