HDNet to Broadcast Live, Exclusive High Definition Coverage of the Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis – Thursday, February 7, 2008

Network’s Coverage Begins at 2:00 p.m. ET with Launch from the Kennedy Space Center Scheduled for 2:45 p.m. ET

WHAT:
HDNet to broadcast EXCLUSIVE HD coverage of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, marking NASA’s 24th U.S. mission to the International Space Station.

The mission of STS-122 is to deliver the European Space Agency’s Columbus science laboratory module. The cylindrical, 23-foot long Columbus lab is the first all-European laboratory to be attached to the International Space Station. Additional construction on the International Space Station will also be part ofthe mission.

HDNet’s coverage will be hosted by HDNet World Report Correspondent Greg Dobbs and former astronaut Colonel Charles “Sam” Gemar.

WHEN: EXCLUSIVE HD coverage begins on HDNet at 2:00 p.m., running until 3:00 p.m. ET – with the launch of Atlantis scheduled for 2:45 p.m. ET.

About HDNet

HDNet (www.hd.net) provides viewers with the best in original comedy, drama, news, sports and music programming.

HDNet is your exclusive, high definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming, including television’s only HD news feature programs “HDNet World Report”, “Dan Rather Reports” featuring legendary journalist Dan Rather and “NASA on HDNet” (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010). HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, NASCAR Grand National Division, NASCAR NEXTEL Cup re-broadcasts, boxing and Mixed Martial Arts through it’s new HDNet Fights initiative; groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including U2, Coldplay, Gwen Stefani and more; entertaining and irreverent lifestyle programming including “Deadline!”, “Art Mann Presents”, and “Get Out!” HDNet is also the exclusive high definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as the Emmy Award winning “Arrested Development”, “The Black Donnellys”, “Blade: The Series”, “Star Trek: Enterprise”, “Smallville”, “Joan of Arcadia”, “Boomtown” and “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”.

HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases – all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet Movies viewers get the best possible home theater experience.

Only HDNet Movies exclusive “Sneak Previews” bring feature films to viewers before they premiere in theaters! Some of the HDNet Movies “Sneak Previews” have included the Academy Award nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, Toronto Film Festival nominee “The War Within”, and “Bubble”, the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films “Cashback”, written and produced by Sean Ellis, and, most recently, “Broken English”, from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne and the critically acclaimed “Redacted” directed by Brian De Palma. Upcoming “Sneak Previews” include “Quid Pro Quo”, starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, “Hunter”, the story of the life and death of infamous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter, and “Flawless”, starring Michael Caine and Demi Moore.

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Contacts

HDNet
Colette Carey, 303-542-5576
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