National Hockey League Playoff Games Available On-Demand Through Akimbo Service

Just in time for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Akimbo™ and the National Hockey League (NHL) Interactive CyberEnterprises (ICE), the digital arm of the NHL, today announced that hockey fans will now be able to enjoy watching high-quality, full-length NHL games for viewing directly on a TV or PC through the Akimbo Service.

The 2007 Stanley Cup Playoff games will be available on Akimbo for on-demand viewing 48 hours after the contest concludes, allowing fans to re-live their favorite team’s success and not miss a moment of the action. For the 2007-2008 season, Akimbo will continue to offer high-quality, full-length regular season games, weekly highlights, classic games and special NHL hockey features.

“Fans of hockey tend to consume the game non-traditionally and value having the freedom to watch games and highlights at their convenience,” said Keith Ritter, president, NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises. “Offering NHL content through Akimbo gives our fans that freedom.”

“NHL is one of the most recognized athletic organizations in the world and complements our existing roster of professional and extreme sports partners,” said Thomas F. Frank, Akimbo’s president and chief executive officer. “Akimbo customers can now watch great hockey action in addition to other videos they can’t get anywhere else.”

The Akimbo Service includes 15,000 titles from 200 distinctive content providers and gives viewers a way to easily download video over the Internet, for viewing directly on TV or PC. For more information about the Akimbo Service, visit www.akimbo.com.

About the NHL

The National Hockey League, founded in 1917, is the second-oldest of the four major professional team sports leagues in North America. Today, the NHL consists of 30 Member Clubs, each reflecting the League’s international makeup, with players from more than 20 countries represented on team rosters. According to a Simmons Market Research study, NHL fans are educated, tech-savvy and the youngest of all of the fans of any other professional sport. The NHL entertains more than 100 million fans each season in-arena and through its partners in national television (VERSUS, NBC, TSN, CBC, RDS, RIS, NASN, NHL Network and HDNet) and radio (Westwood One, Sirius and XM Radio). Through the NHL Foundation, the League’s charitable arm, the NHL raises money and awareness for Hockey Fights Cancer, Hockey’s All-Star Kids and NHL Diversity, and supports the charitable efforts of all NHL players. For more information on the NHL, log on to NHL.com.

About Akimbo

Akimbo is the first company to deliver digital-quality video-on-demand to any television via a broadband-Internet connection. In 2006, the company was named to the OnHollywood 100 by AlwaysOn for its easy-to-use and affordable Internet video-on-demand service. As an aggregator of brand-name and specialty video content, Akimbo provides one of the worlds’ largest collections of on-demand programming to companies including AT&T, Microsoft Corp., Sonic Solutions and Thomson Corp. Akimbo has offices in San Mateo, Calif. and is funded by AT&T, Blueprint Ventures, Cisco Systems Inc., Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sprout Group and Zone Ventures. For more information, visit www.akimbo.com.

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