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                                                                            Hits Move to C-Band

Ku-Band HITS Services                                                                                                                                      Jan.22^nd 2008

We know that there is a lot of chatter and speculation on the web and various media regarding the Hits-To-Home information related to the move of their service from X4 Ku-Band to AMC-18 on C-Band. 

How will this affect SRL Programming Subscribers? 

All of the current Ku-Band services included in our Ku-Band list of services will continue to be available on X4 until June 1, 2008. 

Between then and now, HITS will be converting these services to C-band and transmitting them on AMC-18 at 105 degrees west latitude. These will be dual illuminated until June 1 2008, when the Ku Band services will be discontinued  Once we have channel assignments we will begin converting all subscribers to these services to the AMC-18 channels, and provide a smooth and seamless transition. 

We will publish updated information related to this on our website “news” page, as it becomes available. 

We believe this will result in growth in the C band Market and consider this a positive thing for our customers, as now all customers will have access to all these channels without having to install Ku-Band equipment.