i-concerts and Free Launch 24/7 HD Concert Channel

GENEVA/PARIS, June 22:
French broadband ISP Free is working with i-concerts to offer its subscribers a
high-definition channel and an IPTV VOD platform, both featuring performances
from some of today’s top artists.

The ADSL channel
i-concerts HD launched yesterday. It will offer up performances by artists such
as Robbie Williams, U2, James Blunt, Radiohead and James Brown.

The two companies have
also combined forces to create i-concerts Jukebox, which provides Free’s
Freebox subscribers with Europe’s largest IPTV VOD concert platform, featuring
performances from artists such as Eminem, Usher, REM, Andrea Bocelli, Lou Reed
and Coldplay, as well as backstage footage and music festivals.

“The launch of this comprehensive VOD and HD broadcast
service into the French market is the first of its kind,” said Free CEO Michaël
Boukobza, “and i-concert’s reputation as being one of the largest content
providers of music programming for broadband platforms makes them a perfect
partner.”