Optical Entertainment Network Announces IPTV Carriage Agreement With Southern Entertainment Television (The SET)

OEN's FISION Service Brings First Ever Classic Black Gospel Channel and the Largest Library of Gospel Music in the World to Houston

Houston, TX (PRWEB) November 15, 2006 -- Optical Entertainment Network™ (OEN), the leading provider of IPTV and broadband services built for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), announced today that it has signed an IPTV carriage agreement with Southern Entertainment Television (The SET). Through this agreement OEN's FISION service will offer its subscribers the following four channels: Southern Gospel Music, Bluegrass Music, Classic Black Gospel Music and Classic Country Music.

"We are very excited to debut our channel with OEN in Houston," said Harold Brown, President Southern Entertainment Television. "FISION is the first cable channel to carry Southern Entertainment Television and our only outlet in Houston. OEN's FTTH network empowers us to go head to head with the larger networks."

Southern Entertainment Television (The SET) provides the largest consolidated library of gospel music in the world and created the first ever Classic Black Gospel Channel.

"We don't preach, teach or solicit money," Mr. Brown added. "We are a for profit operation earning revenue from our advertising to our demographic of people aged 33 and over. We look forward to a big success in Houston where there are so many churches with who members will enjoy our music. Our production company is also based in Houston."

OEN's FISION is the first and only integrated service for IPTV, Internet, Voice, Video-On-Demand (VOD) and other broadband applications, designed specifically to take advantage of the benefits of FTTH technology and the only service to make all of its content available for distribution to other communities in the US. OEN has acquired programming agreements for IPTV distribution from popular cable television networks and will deliver 400 television channels, including over 50 channels of High Definition Television (HDTV) to subscribers.

"We are very pleased to add Southern Entertainment Television to FISION's programming line-up of over 400 channels of IPTV, said Albert J. Estrada, Chief Marketing Officer of Optical Entertainment Network. "Southern Entertainment Television is the only place in the world where fans can listen to much of its classic country and classic gospel music. This shows our ability to provide the broadest diversity of content and to service niche markets with substantial followings that most other operators would not be able to accommodate because of their limited bandwidth."

In addition to featuring popular television networks, FISION's programming line-up showcases new and innovative programming such as NFL Network, The Anime Network, MTV Urge, HDNet, HBO HD, The Africa Channel, Discovery and Discovery Health in addition to offering channels in 13 foreign languages. FISION will also deliver over 50 channels of Hispanic TV programming.

FISION also delivers innovative new broadband applications such as, home security, videoconferencing, gaming, and telemedicine, 14 foreign language channels and other niche programming, and connected learning to homes. In addition, OEN will offer 10 to 100 Mbps symmetrical Internet service to subscribers' homes, video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand, pay-per-view specials and events as well as original HD programming created by OEN Studios, the creative television production arm of Optical Entertainment Network. OEN will initially provide its service to 1.6 million households in Houston, Texas, the 10th largest television market in the U.S., over an existing fiber network covering the majority of the city.

About Southern Entertainment Television

Southern Entertainment Television (The SET) develops, markets, and supports music intensive video programming services since 1997. The SET delivers three programming channels with niche focuses in Southern Gospel, Bluegrass and Traditional Black Gospel music. More information in www.theset.net

About Optical Entertainment Network

Optical Entertainment Network is a Houston, Texas based company providing the first major market deployment of Video, Internet and Voice to residential and commercial customers over a system specifically designed to optimize fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology. OEN has signed the largest number of IPTV carriage agreements to date, acquired directly with programming networks. The company is a platinum member of the FTTH Council. More information can be found at the company's website at www.fision.net.

About FISION

FISION is scheduled to launch in Houston, Texas, the 10th largest Television market in the US. In addition to delivering over 400 channels of entertainment programming, FISION will deliver High-Speed Internet at unprecedented speeds of 10 Mbps symmetrical per subscriber and innovative applications such as telemedicine, video conferencing and home security. FISION will also provide IP Voice services including local and long distance services, to deliver on the promise of true convergence from one company. More information on FISION can be found at www.getfision.com.

For additional information contact:

Cathy Clarke

CNC Associates

+ 617-527-2089

Southern Entertainment Television (The Set)

+ 941-488-8088

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