Retirement Living TV Celebrates First Anniversary

COLUMBIA,
September 11: Retirement Living TV, a
U.S. cable network dedicated to people age 55 and older, is celebrating its
first anniversary with carriage in place in 28 million U.S. homes.

Retirement
Living TV was launched on September 5, 2006, with the goal of informing, involving and inspiring people aged 55
and older. Since then, it has achieved carriage on
DIRECTV and Comcast, reaching 28 million homes, and has launched to one million
homes in Canada on S-Vox. The network has also produced more than 650 hours of
original programming, and has hired celebrities like Florence Henderson,
Walter Cronkite, Gary Collins, Meshach Taylor, the sex therapist Dr. Ruth
Westheimer and journalists Mary Alice
Williams, John Palmer and Felicia Taylor Lea Thompson, to anchor its
programming. The programming on the network covers health, lifestyle, finance
and politics.

Retirement Living TV is
closely affiliated with Erickson Retirement Communities, the National
Institutes of Health, the Erickson School of Aging Studies at University of
Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and leading gerontologists across the country.

Retirement Living TV was
also the first television network to recognize the importance and potential
impact the 2009 digital broadcast transition will have on all Americans, and
gathered national leaders in a special, televised taping during the May 2007
National Cable & Telecommunications Association annual confab to address
the issue.

"We are North
America's only network to serve one of the two fastest- growing demographics in
the hemisphere—people turning 55 years old or retiring," said Brad
Knight, the president of Retirement Living TV. "We are committed to
establishing better lifestyles for seniors and our programming clearly
resonates with our audience."