Time Warner Cable Presents over 100 Major League Baseball Games in Spanish in Texas and Los Angeles

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Tue Apr 6, 2010 9:00am EDT

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) today announced that it will carry over 100 LA
Dodgers, LA Angels and Texas Rangers games in Spanish in local team markets in
2010. Fox Sports Networks will produce the games in Spanish for distribution by
local Time Warner Cable systems to its customers. 

"We are very pleased to be able to provide these games in Spanish to our
customers in Texas and LA," said David Proper, Vice President of Programming for
Time Warner Cable. "We are constantly looking for ways to improve our products
and we believe these games provide a unique opportunity to better serve our
Spanish-speaking customers." 

For the 2010 season, Time Warner Cable Digital Basic customers in Los Angeles
will enjoy 39 Dodgers and 32 Angels games in Spanish on channel 858. The
Play-by-Play Announcer for the Dodgers games will be Jaime Jarrin, the Dodgers
Spanish radio announcer. The Analyst will be Manny Mota, who spent 20 years as a
MLB player, and enters his 30th season as a coach with the Dodgers. The
Play-by-Play Announcer for the Angels games will be Jose Mota, son of former MLB
player and current Dodgers coach, Manny Mota. The Analyst will be Jose
Tolentino, a former Houston Astros first baseman and Mexican National team head
coach during '09 World Baseball Classic. 

In Texas, Digital Basic customers will enjoy 43 Rangers games in Spanish on
channel 889 (Corpus Christi 99). The Play-by-play announcer will be Victor
Villalba, who is also a Spanish language radio play-by-play announcer for Dallas
Mavericks and Dallas Cowboys. The Analyst will be former Texas Rangers pitcher
Jose Guzman. 

About Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with
technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located in five geographic
areas - New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern
California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than
14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data
and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone,
Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes.
Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers
national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are
targeted and affordable. More information about the services of Time Warner
Cable is available at www.timewarnercable.com, www.twcbc.com and
www.twcmediasales.com.

Time Warner Cable
Maureen Huff, 212-364-8206
Maureen.huff@twcable.com

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