Cablevision Statement On Supreme Court Ruling Clearing Way For Remote Storage-DVR

Cablevision Statement On Supreme Court Ruling Clearing Way For Remote
Storage-DVR

BETHPAGE, N.Y., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cablevision Systems Corp.
(NYSE: CVC) today released the following statement from Chief Operating
Officer Tom Rutledge in response to the decision by the Supreme Court of the
United States not to hear an appeal in the remote storage-DVR litigation.

"This is a tremendous victory, and it opens up the possibility of offering a
DVR experience to all of our digital cable customers. At the same time, we
are mindful of the potential implications for ad skipping and the concerns
this has raised in the programming community. We believe there are ways to
take this victory and work with programmers to give our customers what they
want -- full DVR functionality through existing digital set-top boxes -- and
at the same time deliver real benefits to advertisers. This landmark case
gives the cable industry, and Cablevision in particular, the opportunity to do
something that our satellite competitors cannot do. We expect to begin
deploying the first application of this new technology, the ability to pause
live television when the phone rings, as a value-added benefit to our
customers later this summer."

About Cablevision
Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation's leading
media and entertainment companies. Its cable television operations serve more
than 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company's
advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO TV(R) digital television,
Optimum Online(R) high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice(R) digital
voice-over-cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications
services. Cablevision operates several successful programming businesses,
including AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel and WE tv, through Rainbow Media Holdings
LLC, and serves the New York area as publisher of Newsday and other niche
publications through Newsday Media Group. In addition to these businesses,
Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York
Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New York's famed Radio
City Music Hall, the Beacon Theatre, and the Chicago Theatre, and owns and
operates Clearview Cinemas.

SOURCE Cablevision Systems Corporation

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