World Premiere of "Dan Rather Reports" Set for November 14 On HDNetLegendary Journalist Returns to Television With New Weekly News Program Exclusively on HDNetDallas, TX - October 25, 2006 - "Dan Rather Reports," the new weekly news program produced and hosted by legendary broadcast journalist Dan Rather, will make its world premiere on HDNet Tuesday, November 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET, it was announced today by Mark Cuban, Chairman and Co-founder of HDNet. As the weekly hour-long program's Global Correspondent, "Dan Rather Reports" will mark the return of Rather to television news, with his distinguished record as a premier news journalist. Led by Executive Producer Wayne Nelson, "Dan Rather Reports" will feature hard-edged field reports, in-depth interviews and investigative pieces that emphasize accuracy, fairness and guts in their reporting. The program will cover topics including, but not limited to, politics, the environment, the global economy, and international affairs and conflicts. The format of "Dan Rather Reports" will be dictated by the needs of individual stories. Each show will typically consist of multiple stories, but some shows will be devoted to a single, hour-long report. "HDNet has given Dan Rather free rein to create a program that is built around his vision," said Cuban. "'Dan Rather Reports' will provide him with an extraordinary opportunity to report news that is not defined by corporate economics and that takes its cues from the stories themselves, not a pre-conceived structure." One of the most accomplished news journalists of our time, Rather has covered virtually every major event in the world in the past 50 years. His resume reads like a history book, from his early local reporting in Texas on Hurricane Carla to his unparalleled work covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; the civil rights movement; the White House and national politics; and wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and Iraq. Rather has more than earned his reputation as the "hardest working man in television journalism." A national poll released in August named him the second most popular television news and talk personality in a list compiled by Gallup.
About HDNet HDNet is your exclusive, high-definition home for popular, critically acclaimed original programming including television's only HD news feature programs "HDNet World Report", "NASA on HDNet" (presenting live shuttle launches through 2010), and, beginning in November, "Dan Rather Reports". HDNet presents championship sports coverage featuring the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, NASCAR Grand National Division, boxing and Mixed Martial Arts including World Extreme Cagefighting; groundbreaking music programming with the HDNet Concert Series featuring leading artists and bands including U2, Eminem, Gorillaz and more, plus original music programs "Sound Off with Matt Pinfield", True Music w/Katie Daryl" and "On Stage at World Cafe Live"; entertaining interview shows including "Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone" and "Higher Definition", in addition to fun and irreverent lifestyle programming including "Deadline!", "Art Mann Presents", and "Get Out!" HDNet is also the exclusive high-definition home to the critically acclaimed and award winning programs such as "Dead Like Me", "Smallville", "Joan of Arcadia", "Boomtown" and "Andy Richter Controls the Universe". New to HDNet this fall are the Emmy Award winning "Arrested Development" and "Star Trek: Enterprise". HDNet Movies produces and broadcasts more original movies than any other network and is the exclusive home of day and date movie releases from HDNet Films including the Academy Award nominated "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room", Toronto Film Festival nominee "The War Within", and "Bubble", the first of six movies by acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh and produced exclusively for HDNet Films. Other HDNet Films releases include "One Last Thing" starring Cynthia Nixon, "Herbie Hancock: Possibilities", and coming soon, Matt Taubers' Tribeca Film Festival nominee "The Architect", starring Anthony LaPaglia and Isabella Rossellini, "Diggers", starring Paul Rudd, Ron Eldard, Maura Tierney and Lauren Ambrose, "Quid Pro Quo", starring Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga, "Hunter", the story of the life and death of infamous gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson from director Alex Gibney, and producer Graydon Carter. Also coming soon are "Fay Grim", from maverick writer-director Hal Hartley, starring Superman's Parker Posey and Jeff Goldblum, and "Broken English", from Zoe Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo and Griffin Dunne. Many more are to come. HDNet Movies also features a wide selection of major studio theatrical releases - all uncut, unedited, and appearing in their original aspect ratio so that HDNet viewers get the best possible home theater experience. Launched in 2001 by Mark Cuban and General Manager Philip Garvin, the HDNet networks are available on Bright House Networks, Charter Communications, DIRECTV, DISH Network, Insight, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable and more than 40 NCTC cable affiliate companies. For more information visit www.hd.net.
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