TV Guide Broadband Bulks Up Content Offerings

LOS ANGELES, February 26:
TV Guide Broadband, an advertising-supported online video service provided by
TV Guide Network, has signed new production agreements, bolstering its original
programming lineup.

Rhett & Link, the
Internet musical comedians best known for hosting The CW’s prime-time
television series Online Nation,
will produce three original music videos for TV Guide Broadband. TV Guide
Broadband also signed an agreement with Nick Davis Productions to launch a
10-part online series in late April, Making News…This Just In, following up on the cast of TV Guide Network’s
successful summer production Making News: Texas Style. The series will also build awareness for the
second season of Making News: Savannah Style, which debuts on TV Guide Network on June 2.

TV Guide Broadband is
distributed on TVGuide.com, YouTube, Veoh, AOL Video and Hulu, among others.

“TV Guide Broadband’s
celebrity- and entertainment-driven content has quickly gained a lot of
traction with broadband users, and we are excited to expand our arsenal with
original, short-form content that will debut online first,” said Dmitri
Ponomarev, the VP of on demand at TV Guide Network. “We believe that both Rhett
and Link’s music videos and the Making News webisode series have fresh appeal and a good sense
of humor that will play well with broadband audiences.”

—By Ned Berke