CTV Gains Multiplatform Rights to Comedy Central Fare

NEW YORK, June 27: Canadian broadcaster CTV has bagged the
exclusive broadcast and digital rights (including broadband, video-on-demand
and mobile) to the Comedy Central program slate, which it can schedule on any
of its platforms, including the specialty channel The Comedy Network.

The deal includes 200 hours of current series, including
full episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, South Park, The
Colbert Report, The Sarah
Silverman Program, Lil' Bush, Mind
of Mencia, RENO 911!, The Showbiz Show with David Spade, Drawn Together and the soon-to-premiere American Body Shop. In addition, CTV retains the rights for the
complete Comedy Central back catalog of programs.

Furthermore, CTV has the exclusive online and broadband
rights to full episodes, plus all
clips, shorts, wallpapers, ring-tones and other
online content created for Comedy Central shows, plus all original
broadband and online content created for comedycentral.com, where cleared for
Canada. The deal also covers VOD and mobile rights to The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
and South Park along with other
current series and back catalog
programs where cleared for Canada.

As part of the deal, all Canadian-based web traffic to
Comedy Central's online assets will be geo-gated and re-directed to The Comedy
Network's www.thecomedynetwork.ca. These assets include: www.comedycentral.com,
www.southparkstudios.com, www.jokes.com, and www.colbertnation.com.

"This deal builds on a longstanding and great relationship
between two of the preeminent comedy networks and expands our association with
CTV into the digital landscape, maximizing the value of our distinctive content
and making the Comedy Central brand available to our northern neighbors
anywhere and everywhere they want it," said Michele Ganeless, the
executive VP and general manager of Comedy Central.

Susanne Boyce, the president of programming for CTV and
chair of the CTV Media Group, added: "Comedy Central has an undeniable
track record for being on the leading edge of funny. With this new strategic
content deal in place, CTV gets exclusive access to a vast supply of top comedy
titles, plus the flexibility to program them to viewers on the platform of
their choice. It's a winning deal for Canadians coast-to-coast."