LAS VEGAS, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 7, 2009 -- Players Network (OTC BB:PNTV.OB - News), the leading Digital Media 3-Screen Network dedicated to Las Vegas Entertainment and the Gaming Lifestyle, announces today that it has entered into a content syndication and revenue sharing agreement with the Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. Sling.com is an online Video Entertainment platform that provides high quality full-length shows, movies and clips with user customization and community features.

Players Network will have its own branded channel on Sling.com where users will have free access to Players Network's extensive library of over 1,500 original Gaming and Las Vegas lifestyle programs. Sling.com users will be able to subscribe to the Players Network Channel and choose to engage in the social community built around the content. In addition to Sling.com, Players Network broadband distribution includes Hulu.com, Blinkx.com, Google Video, Yahoo Video, YouTube, and PlayersNetwork.com. Players Network also has extensive television distribution on Comcast Cable, Direct TV, AT&T's U-Verse, Verizon FiOS, and Tivocast.

"We are so excited to have been chosen to participate in the initial launch of Sling.com," says Mark Bradley, CEO of Players Network. "This new platform will expand Players Network's distribution using brand new technology that poises Sling.com to be an industry leader."

About Players Network

Players Network is a Digital Media Company that focuses on the Las Vegas and Gaming Lifestyles, producing and distributing original content for its own VOD Channels on television in over 22,000,000 homes, for its Broadband Network at www.playersnetwork.com, Blinkx, Google, YouTube and Yahoo Video, for DVD Home Video, mobile platforms, and through worldwide television syndication. Players Network has a 10-year history of providing consumers with quality Gaming and Las Vegas Lifestyle content, and the gaming industry with strategic partnership services in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and throughout the worldwide Gaming Industry.

About Sling Media

Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, is a leading digital lifestyle company offering consumer services and products that are a natural extension of today's digital way of life. Sling Media's product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy award-winning Slingbox(TM) that allows consumers to watch and control their living room television shows at any time, from any location, using PCs, Macs, PDAs and smartphones and the revolutionary new SlingCatcher(TM), a universal media player that seamlessly delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to the TV. Sling Media is also the company behind the video entertainment web site, Sling.com, offering consumers a wide variety of popular TV shows, movies and other entertainment free for viewing online or on the TV using SlingCatcher. For more information on Sling Media, the Slingbox or the SlingCatcher, visit www.slingmedia.com. To watch your favorite TV shows and movies, check out www.sling.com.

Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

With the exception of the historical information contained in this Release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters herein described, including but not limited to: the ability of the Company to increase revenues in the future due to the developing and unpredictable markets for its products, the ability to achieve a positive cash flow, the ability to obtain orders for or install its products, the ability to obtain new customers and the ability to continue to commercialize its products, which could cause actual results or revenues to differ materially from those contemplated by these statements.

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