Charter Brings UFC On Demand To Customers

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Feb 17, 2010, 08:00 ET

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Charter today announced the launch of Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC) programming to Charter customers. The service will be available On Demand 24 hours a day, 365 days a year beginning February 18. The UFC is the world's leading professional mixed martial arts organization. UFC On Demand is distributed by Avail-TVN.

"Charter customers enjoy a broad and diverse range of programming choices," said Rich DiGeronimo, Charter's Vice President of Product Management. "By making UFC available at any time through Charter On Demand, we help ensure that loyal fans never miss any of the action. Plus, Charter customers will also have easy access to live UFC events on Pay Per View."

The service will launch on February 18th, just in time for UFC 110: Nogueira vs. Velasquez live from Sydney Australia on Pay-Per-View February 20.

Charter will offer customers the full suite of UFC On Demand services that includes:

UFC Free Zone, an on-demand free service offering information and short features on mixed martial arts rules, fighting disciplines, styles and techniques. The popular Countdown UFC shows and UFC event previews are also available via UFC Free Zone.

UFC Fight Zone offers single UFC library fights in their entirety, at $2.99-$3.99 per fight with a 24-hour viewing period. UFC Fight Zone features fighters who will be competing in an upcoming UFC pay-per-view event, offering fans the opportunity to see these champions and challengers in some of their most legendary fights and prior matchups.

UFC Event Zone offers full UFC events and specials, starting at $4.99 per title for a 24-hour viewing period. Offerings include recent UFC pay-per-view events that feature fighters who will be competing in an upcoming UFC event, as well as the original and rarely seen "UFC Classics" from 1993-1998, along with UFC's hottest selling full-length DVDs, UFC compilation specials and video-on-demand replays of current pay-per-view events.

For more information about Charter services and UFC, contact Charter at 1-888-GET CHARTER (1-888-438-2427) or charter.com.

About Charter

Charter Communications, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CCMM) is a leading broadband communications company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter Digital Cable® video entertainment programming, Charter High-Speed® Internet access, and Charter Telephone®. Charter Business® similarly provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, video and music entertainment services, and business telephone. Charter's advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found at www.charter.com.

About The Ultimate Fighting Championship®

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the world's leading professional mixed martial arts organization and offers the premier series of MMA sports events. Owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC, and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., UFC produces over twelve live pay-per-view events annually that are distributed residentially through North American cable and satellite providers including iNDEMAND Networks, DIRECTV, DISH Network, TVN Entertainment, Shaw Pay-Per-View, BellTV, Viewers Choice, SaskTel Max™ and via the Internet worldwide on Yahoo! Sports, and commercially through Joe Hand Promotions in the U.S. and Canadastar in Canada. In addition to its North American distribution, UFC programming is distributed in over 100 countries and territories throughout the world. For more information, or current UFC fight news, visit UFC.com, UK.UFC.com, GERMANY.UFC.com or UFCespanol.com

About Avail-TVN

Avail-TVN is the largest 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 www.avail-tvn.com.

SOURCE Charter Communications, Inc.