Players Network Partners With National League of Poker to Create Private Branded Online Poker Site

LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 12 (MARKET WIRE) --
Players Network (OTCBB: PNTV), the leading Digital Media 3-Screen Network
dedicated to Las Vegas Entertainment and the Gaming Lifestyle, announces
today that it has partnered with The National League of Poker
(www.NLOP.com) to create a Players Network branded online poker site that
will allow members to legally play online poker for free with the chance
to win over $50,000 a month in Cash and Prizes.

Players Network will receive a percentage of all ad space on the site, a
monthly fee for each player that plays for free, and a significant
percentage of the subscription revenue for each player that joins the VIP
area of the site, paying for premium content and services. Players Network
will also have access to everyone in its registration database.

"I play on the NLOP poker site and it definitely satisfies my desire to
play competitive, legal online poker against other players from around the
world without risking my money, while still getting the rush and having
the ability to actually win money," says Michael Berk, Players Network's
President of Programming. "NLOP's graphics and player-friendly environment
makes it the ideal free/subscription poker technology for us to offer
consumers under the Players Network brand. NLOP has an interactive social
network for poker players, and provides the perfect demographic for
Players Network to market our services to. With our unparalleled ability
to run ads for 'Players Network's Poker Club' on our proprietary
programming in over 22 million TV homes in the US, 121 million TV homes
in Europe, and on our Broadband and Mobile platforms, Players Network has
the ability to reach more potential members than any other poker site out
there."

About Players Network

Players Network is a Digital Media Company that focuses on the Las Vegas
and Gaming Lifestyles, producing and distributing original content for its
own VOD Channels on television in over 22,000,000 homes, for its Broadband
Network at www.playersnetwork.com, Blinkx, Google, YouTube and Yahoo
Video, for DVD Home Video, mobile platforms, and through worldwide
television syndication. Players Network has a 10-year history of
providing consumers with quality Gaming and Las Vegas Lifestyle content,
and the gaming industry with strategic partnership services in Las Vegas,
Atlantic City, and throughout the worldwide Gaming Industry.

About NLOP

NLOP(TM) offers a direct-to-consumer rewards-based poker portal through
www.nlop.com. The National League of Poker (www.nlop.com) is the leading
social gaming platform for free, U.S.-legal online poker. NLOP(TM) allows
players to win cash and prizes hourly, daily and weekly with no financial
risk -- players never lose money. NLOP(TM) has a desirable demographic of
highly engaged players with an average user session of 67 minutes and
delivers over 35 million minutes of poker play per month. NLOP(TM) was
previously a division of Power Play Development. For more information,
visit http://www.nlop.com.

Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

With the exception of the historical information contained in this
Release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements
that involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually
impact the matters herein described, including but not limited to: the
ability of the Company to increase revenues in the future due to the
developing and unpredictable markets for its products, the ability to
achieve a positive cash flow, the ability to obtain orders for or install
its products, the ability to obtain new customers and the ability to
continue to commercialize its products, which could cause actual results
or revenues to differ materially from those contemplated by these
statements.

Contact

Jennifer Bodnar
Director of Business Affairs
Players Network
702.895.8884

Brian Holden
Investor Relations
Securities Awareness LLC
702.562.1287

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