Hotelevision and FelCor Enter Into Agreement To Provide Access to 30,000 Hotel Rooms
NEW YORK, New York and IRVING, Texas - Hotelevision, Inc. announced today the signing of a five year corporate agreement with FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated FCH, one of the nation's largest hotel real estate investment trusts, to provide its 10 channel free-to-guest cable programming package. The agreement will include approximately 130 FelCor-owned hotels across the United States with brands such as Crowne Plaza®, Doubletree®, Embassy...
Hotelevision's current 10 cable network package includes: The Biography Channel, Court TV, CNBC, ESPN Classic, Fox News, The Golf Channel, History Channel International, MSNBC, The Weather Channel and STARZ! Hotelevision extends the reach of its network partners by bringing them into hotels where they had previously been unavailable.
"This announcement is an exciting development in reaching our goal of expanding Hotelevision's audience within the upscale hotel market," said Morgan Lambert, Senior Vice President of Distribution and Content for Hotelevision. "Our growing relationship with upscale hotels reinforces Hotelevision's values," Ms. Lambert added.
"We're pleased to enter into this agreement with Hotelevision," said Thomas J. Corcoran, Jr., FelCor's President and CEO. "The additional programming package will supplement our hotels' existing channel offerings at no additional cost and also will provide our guests with more options for in-room entertainment."
FelCor joins Hotelevision's impressive list of corporate partnerships that include Hyatt Hotels, Loews Hotels, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Omni Hotels, and Winegardner & Hammons. Hotelevision's programming can be found in many Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hilton®, Hyatt®, Marriott®, Radisson®, Sheraton and Westin® hotels nationwide. Currently, Hotelevision is installed in more than 130,000 rooms in more than 370 hotels nationwide.