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Updated at 1:14 p.m., Monday, January 8, 2007

Oceanic Cable offers new digital services

News Release

January 8, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT:

Caroline Witherspoon

Becker Communications, Inc.

(808) 533-4165

OCEANIC TIME WARNER CABLE INTRODUCES "START OVER"

AND "QUICK CLIPS": NEW INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS

Mililani, HI (January 8, 2007) - As part of its continuing effort to give

subscribers more personal control and flexibility with their TV viewing,

Oceanic Time Warner Cable has introduced two new interactive features for

digital cable subscribers. Start Over allows customers the ability to

instantly restart a program in progress, while Quick Clips allows customers

to easily access short-form video content, including content produced for

the Internet, on their televisions. The new services have been launched on

Oahu and Kauai, with additional channels to be added in phases throughout

the year.

"We're pleased to offer Hawaii the newest interactive technology," said

President Nate Smith. "With Start Over, viewers can see programs on 26

Oceanic Time Warner networks from the beginning when tuning the enabled

program in progress. With Quick Clips, viewers' growing desire for the most

up-to-date information when they want it is satisfied."

The Start Over interactive feature is free of charge to Oceanic's digital

subscribers. With just a touch of a button on their remote controls, they

can restart a wide range of programs: Boomerang, CNBC World, CNN, Cartoon

Network, Court TV, Do It Yourself, Food Network, Fox College Sports

Atlantic, Central, and Pacific, Fox Movie Channel, Fox Soccer Channel, FUEL,

G4-Gamers, Outdoor Life Network, Showtime/TMC multiplex channels, Sleuth,

Speed, Sundance, TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies.

When tuning to a Start Over-enabled show in progress, customers are alerted

to the feature through an on-screen prompt. By pressing "Select" on the

remote control, the program is immediately restarted, and customers are able

to watch it from the beginning. The feature eliminates the need for

advance planning, as is required with a digital video recorder. As long as

the program is in progress, viewers can start it over at their convenience.

Subject to network programming rights limitations, some programs within

these channels will not be enabled for Start Over and the prompt will not

appear.

Quick Clips brings video posted on the web to the television screens of

digital cable subscribers. The selected online video content comes from

programmers such as CNBC and CNN. When prompted by an on-screen notice that

the program currently viewed has "Enhanced Features," viewers simply press

their remote control's "Select" button to view the online video clip. Once

the Quick Clip is over, the viewer is returned to the current programming on

that channel.

For example, CNBC's Quick Clips include C.E.O interviews, analyst reports

and market and industry updates. CNBC provides five new quick clips each

day ranging from two to seven minutes in length. CNN's category offerings

on Quick Clips include the latest broadband content from CNN.com drawn from

specific categories: Top Stories, U.S., World, Politics, Law, Business,

Sci-Tech, Sports, Health, Offbeat, Entertainment and Best of TV. Once the

CNN category has been selected, viewers are able to choose from various

"quick" stories - usually from the top headlines of the day.

Oceanic currently delivers a diverse selection of entertainment and

information services by way of an advanced fiber optic/coax network to more

than 400,000 households, schools and businesses on Oahu, Maui, Kauai,

Molokai, Lanai and the Big Island. Among its products are Road Runner

high-speed Internet as well as Digital Phone services. The company has

provided quality cable service for Hawaii residents since 1969. Oceanic Time

Warner Cable is the thirteenth largest system in the U.S. and its parent

company, Time Warner Entertainment, LLP, is a major developer of

entertainment and information content. For more information, call (808)

643-2337 or visit www.oceanic.com.