Cablevision Adds HGTV, Food Network Titles to Free VOD Offerings

BETHPAGE, March 7:
Cablevision Systems will add several shows from Scripps-owned Food Network and
HGTV to its free VOD service available to iO TV digital-cable customers.

Subscribers to the service
will be able to access shows like 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray, Giada's Weekend Getaways, Good Eats, Unwrapped: Good Food,
House Hunters and Selling
Secrets, among others.

With more than 2.6 million
iO TV customers, approximately 84 percent of Cablevision's cable customers are
iO TV digital-cable customers.

“Cablevision continues to
enhance our free VOD offering by adding quality, branded content from the most
popular cable television networks, in addition to the kind of local programming
that isn't available from any other provider,” said John Trierweiler,
Cablevision's senior VP of product management. “These new shows from Food
Network and HGTV are a terrific addition to our iO TV digital cable service,
and we are confident they will be a hit with our customers.”

—By Ned Berke