Mark Cuban
Mark CubanMark Cuban is co-founder, chairman and president of HDNet, which operates two 24/7 cable channels, HDNet and HDNet Movies. HDNet, launched in 2001, features exciting and topical news, sports, music and entertainment programming, including up to 20 hours of new original programming each week, all produced in the highest quality 1080i HDTV format – more original high-definition programming than any other network.

HDNet’s news and entertainment programming includes original series “HDNet World Report,” “Deadline!,” “Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone,” “Sound Off with Matt Pinfield,” “HDNet Concert Series,” and “True Music,” as well as acquired programs such as every episode of the acclaimed Warner Bros. series “Smallville,” “Dead Like Me,” “Summerland,” and “Joan of Arcadia.” Live sports productions include National Hockey League and Major League Soccer games, and NASCAR Grand National Division auto racing, boxing and WEC Cagefighting.

HDNet Movies, the company's movie channel, is the exclusive home of day-and-date movie releases including the Academy Award nominated "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "The War Within,” "Bubble,” and “One Last Thing.” HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases - all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio - as well as features produced and finished in true 1080i high-definition.

HDNet and HDNet Movies are available on Adelphia, Bright House, Charter, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies.

In addition to HDNet and HDNet Movies, Cuban, together with business partner Todd Wagner, owns several other vertically integrated media and entertainment properties, including movie production companies HDNet Films and 2929 Productions, theatrical and home video distributor Magnolia Pictures, the Landmark Theatres art-house chain, and a minority stake in Lions Gate Entertainment.

Using several of these properties, Cuban and Wagner have launched a bold “day-and-date” strategy in which they are releasing films simultaneously across theatrical, television and home video platforms, thus collapsing the traditional release windows and giving consumers a choice of how, when and where they wish to see a movie. Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh has agreed to make six high-definition movies and release them using this day-and-date model. On January 27, 2006, the first of these six films, the murder mystery “Bubble,” was successfully released in theaters, on DVD and on HDNet Movies.

Cuban is also the outspoken owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks team, an active investor in leading and cutting-edge technologies, and publisher of his own Weblog in which he communicates directly and openly to fans, critics and journalists.

In 1995, Cuban co-founded Internet broadcasting service Broadcast.com with Wagner and sold the company for $5.7 billion to Yahoo! in 1999. Prior to Broadcast.com Cuban co-founded a computer consulting firm MicroSolutions and sold it to Compuserve.

For more information contact:
Colette Carey, (303) 542-5576
ccarey@hd.net


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