RCN Launches New Digital Interactive Cable Program Guide Offering Enhanced Search, Parental Control & Functionality

Business Wire, Oct 12, 2006

RCN's New Interactive Guide is Faster, More Intuitive, and Includes More Features

HERNDON, Va. -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of triple play cable, high-speed internet and phone services, today announced the launch of a new interactive digital program guide in its Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Chicago cable TV markets.

The new interactive program guide offers enhanced search and parental control features. In addition, it offers customers easy-to-use, advanced control over their digital entertainment and services.

"Once again, RCN seeks to bring its customers something more and in this case, we have replaced our former program guide with a state-of-the art and customer-friendly way to browse and select the programming and entertainment desired," said RCN President and CEO Peter Aquino. "This guide makes RCN a leader in offering digital subscribers more parental control functions, browsing and search capabilities and options to manage their audio and video settings."

The new interactive program guide expands the range of parental control to include restriction by content advisory, such as "Adult Situation" and "Fantasy Violence," in addition to the standard parental control features allowing for restrictions on time, ratings, channel, and title blocking for adult programs.

"RCN chose Aptiv Digital's interactive navigation platform to provide this service, which is designed to optimize Motorola-based digital cable set-tops," said RCN Vice President Operations Don Channell. "During the past month, RCN customers have been notified of the new interactive guide as well as the enhanced features they would be receiving and their changeover date."

About RCN Corporation

RCN Corporation, http://www.rcn.com, is one of the largest facilities-based competitive providers of bundled cable, high-speed internet and phone services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to residential customers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN Business Solutions is a growing business that also provides bulk video, high-capacity and voice services to business customers. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets. (RCNI-G)

About Aptiv Digital

Aptiv Digital, Inc. is a leading provider of interactive applications for digital cable TV. Aptiv has deployed millions of copies of its Passport[R], Passport DCT[TM] and Passport Echo[TM] navigation and application products on a variety of digital cable set-top platforms, from basic standard definition digital set-tops to advanced high-definition digital video recorder set-tops. Today it is the only company with interactive program guides (IPGs) on both of the major headend platforms, and is a leader in IPG and application development for the emerging OCAP standard. Aptiv Digital is headquartered in Burbank, California. For more information, visit www.aptivdigital.com .