Punch TV Being Served up in Anchorage, Alaska

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IC Places, Inc. (OTCQB: ICPA) is pleased to announce today, Punch TV Network has signed on new affiliate KACN in Anchorage, Alaska.  Punch TV Network will be available on channel 33.3 over KACN Television, which reaches more than half the homes in Alaska, beginning in October. 

Launched in October 2011, IC Places' Punch Television Network began airing its new season of programs on Saturday, September 1, 2012. Approximately 70% of this programming will be original. Anchorage residents will soon be able to access new detective shows such as Port City PD and Second District. The Hollywood Fast Lane and Luisa will link Alaskan viewers more closely with the world of Hollywood. The dramatic series, Eros, will bring true stories of fairy-tale love. The Punch TV original, Filbert's Big Bash will enchant the children of Alaska through its family of lovable dinosaurs. The gangsters in Get Thee Behind Me will intrigue. Many, many more new shows will be available when IC Places' Punch Television Network begins airing in Alaska on KACN in the coming weeks. Punch TV believes that Alaskans are already thirsty for its new programming.

About IC Places:

The future of entertainment has arrived with IC Places.  IC Places is a public company which trades on theOTCQB: Symbol ICPA. ( www.icplaces.com )

Uniquely sensitive to the fact that the world's populations want to access its entertainment, when, where, and how they want it, IC Places is a transmedia entertainment complex that produces entertainment content for distribution across multiple mediums. 

On August 11th 2012, IC Places announced it had completed the purchase of Punch TV Network giving the company a broadcast TV network available in 50 million households. This network is growing rapidly every month. In August 2012, the network expanded into New York and Houston TX adding 14 million households. Punch TV Network has a roster of original programing which includes 36 new dramas, comedies, variety shows, talk shows, children's shows, and inspirational entertainment.

Through multiple long term partnerships, clips and full episodes of the company's shows are available to more than 300 million people a month outside the traditional set top box. This exposure serves as both a profit center and marketing component promoting the TV Network, its line up and the company's new media specific programming across multiple platforms.

One of the core components of this multiple platform approach is IC Places 350 city-based websites. These online "websites/TV stations" offer virtual keyhole views of life in each community they serve. These sites offer local, regional and national news, as well as programing. They deliver Punch TV to communities in which the network is not currently available through traditional means.  

In May of 2012, IC Places signed a content distribution and development agreement with connectiVISION Digital Networks for their new Clear Vision Airport Network. connectiVISION Digital Networks for the Healthcare Industry expands that agreement by adding IC Places content to the Away From Home Television network in waiting areas of Hospitals, Doctors offices, Clinics and Care Centers across the country. This extended ad based network offers IC Places another revenue stream for the shows it produces as well as additional  exposure for its newly acquired Punch TV Network. 

Additional partnerships deliver IC Places content to Checkout TV Network, HDTV network, Dining Network further expanding its footprint in breadth and depth to levels unimaginable as recent as a decade ago.

To complete its reach, IC Places signed a 2nd window and International Distribution Agreement with Spartan Bay, a company that will profitably deliver IC Places shows to markets around the world.

Through the long arm reach of an intricately woven network of partnerships and owned properties, IC Places stands out as one of the most unique diversified transmedia companies on the planet. Its structure offers the and greatest opportunity to generate the highest level of market awareness and profit for the shows it produces. 

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Contact Information:
IC Places, Inc.
www.icplaces.com
Steven Samblis
407-442-0309 Ext. 2
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