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This excerpt taken from the PRVT 10-K filed Mar 31, 2005.

The Private Blue & Private Gold Channels

 

The Private Blue channel was launched in United Kingdom, under an exclusive joint venture agreement with Zone Vision Enterprises (“ZV”), a UK-based television company, and IFPD. As mentioned above, PRVT acquired the channel name Private Blue, and is currently licensing it to an affiliate company of IFPD for a fixed fee. Private Blue is available through the analog and digital satellite platforms of BSkyB and the Telewest cable network in the United Kingdom. Private Blue is also available in Turkey on the DigiTurk platform, and in Hungary and Slovakia on the UPC networks, and in the Netherlands with MediaKabel. Private Blue also has an international satellite feed on the SIRIUS 2 satellite, which gives it access to subscribers in all territories of Europe from 23.00 to 05.00 Central European time every day of the year.

 

The Private Gold television channel is broadcasted under Dutch license, and is available on the HCA Cable Association platform in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and on the UPC Direct satellite network. Private Gold has an international satellite feed on the AMOS 1 satellite, which gives it access to subscribers in all territories in Europe from 24.00 to 04.00 Central European time, every day of the year. Private Gold has a second satellite feed, on the ASTRA satellite with Cryptoworks Encryption. ASTRA is one of the leading satellite systems for direct-to-home transmission of television, radio and multimedia services in Europe, and currently has a fleet of nine satellites and transmits to 22 European countries. The Private Gold channel were launched in Western Europe in 2001, under a joint venture agreement with Canal Digital AS and IFPD. Canal Digital distributes Private Gold in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Canal Digital is jointly owned by Canal+ and Telenor. In 2001, Canal Digital had more than 1.1 million card customers and over 700,000 subscribers in the Nordic region.

 

Both Private Gold and Private Blue television channels were launched in Latin America in 2001, via the joint venture agreement with IFPD, and under a distribution agreement with Pramer S.C.A. Presently, PRVT holds this agreement directly with Pramer. Pramer is one of the largest companies in Latin America responsible for producing, distributing and commercializing content for cable and satellite television. Both channels are transmitted on the NSS 806 satellite that covers the entire South American continent, and reaches 15 million satellite and cable subscribers in the region.

 

In June 2004, we entered into an agreement with Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, (Comcast), to make the Spanish language version of the pay per view channel Private Blue available to Spanish speaking cable TV customers in the U.S. Comcast services over 21 million US cable TV customers.

 

In October 2004, the Private Gold television channel was launched on the Noos platform in France. Noos is the largest cable television operator in France, Following an agreement with Private Blue and Gold Broadcasting BV, a Private Media Group Licensee, the Private Gold channel will be offered to Noos subscribers on a monthly subscription basis. The adult entertainment channel will be broadcast from midnight to 5 am seven days a week. Noos distributes to more than 1.7 million subscribers.

 

We believe that currently the Private Gold and Private Blue channels are available in over 40 territories to approximately 43 million potential viewers worldwide.

 

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