Pre-Schoolers’ Network Notches First Rollout Under Time Warner Deal
By Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 10/2/2007 2:16:00 PM

PBS Kids Sprout Tuesday said its first launch under a new affiliation agreement with Time Warner Cable is on Bright House Networks in Bakersfield, Calif.

Advance/Newhouse Communications owned Bright House has about 110,000 subscribers in that portion of Southern California, which includes much of Kern County.

Sprout – owned by a joint venture of PBS, HIT Entertainment and cable provider Comcast -- signed a corporate affiliation deal with Time Warner Cable in August that lets Comcast seek carriage for the 24-hour network on TWC and BHN systems. Many of those systems already carry Sprout on-demand programming. BHN emerged from a partnership of Time Warner Entertainment and Advance/Newhouse Communications, and BHN retains an affiliation with Time Warner for programming and equipment purchases. Time Warner Cable has about 14 million customers, and BHN has about 2.4 million.


Sprout Gets First Bright House Launch - 10/2/2007 2:16:00 PM - Multichannel News