Hotelevision, an upscale, advertiser-supported television medium delivers premium top-tier cable television networks to hotels. The company has corporate contracts with Hyatt Hotels, Omni Hotels, Winegardner & Hammons, and Wyndham International. Hotelevision can also be found in many Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton, Embassy Suites, and DoubleTree hotels nationwide. As of the fourth quarter of 2000, Hotelevision has more than 60,000 hotel rooms receiving its package of programming with an installation run-rate of approximately 10,000 hotel rooms per month.

"The addition of Jeff Stettin to our team enables us to continue to aggressively move our advertising sales efforts forward," comments Michael Goldstein, co-founder and CEO. "Jeff has an extensive background, strong leadership skills, great reputation and solid contacts in the television advertising industry. His experience will be instrumental in attracting national advertisers to our free-to-guest cable television service."

Prior to joining Hotelevision, Stettin served as Vice President and Sales Manager of the Eastern Region for Food Network. Jeff arrived at Food Network during the network's infancy and played a major role in significantly increasing advertising revenue and bringing Food Network to profitability.

In addition to Food Network, Mr. Stettin has had vast experience with new business ventures having been involved in the launch of TNT and Cartoon Network cable channels, and New World Sales & Marketing. He served as an Account Executive at Food Network, MTM Television, New World Sales and Marketing, and Turner Broadcasting Sales. Mr. Stettin began his career at Katz Communications in New York as a Research Analyst, after earning his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from S.U.N.Y. at Albany.

"Business travelers and executives are the most elusive sector of the television viewing public," said Mr. Stettin. "Hotelevision reaches them by the masses in a format the advertising community has embraced since the 50s. It is no longer difficult to efficiently and effectively talk to America's most affluent. I am thrilled to be a part of Hotelevision and look forward to assisting Marketers in reaching their goals by providing this very special audience."

The New York, NY-based Hotelevision, Inc. markets and sells national advertising time to advertisers of premium products and services on 10 cable television networks. Using its private satellite distribution system, Hotelevision downlinks the signals of participating networks, integrates commercials targeted at high-end business travelers into the programming, and uplinks its modified feed to its transponder. Hotelevision enjoys exclusivity with hotels and programmers with regard to advertising insertion. Michael J. Goldstein and Paul K. Fiorello co-founded Hotelevision in 1996.