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Bright House Networks has launched the easy gadget app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, available to the company’s residential and business customers free of charge. The easy gadget app helps Bright House phone customers stay connected while away from their home and office. The app allows them to be instantly notified of important calls on their Bright House phone then touch to call back or send a text message.

Through the app, customers can also view and listen to voice mail messages after the message was left on their Bright House voice mail service instead of waiting until they return to their home or office; remotely forward their Bright House phone to their iPhone or any other remote phone; manage their contacts in an online address book; backup their iPhone contacts to the easy gadget online address book; and use a free online directory search function to look up phone numbers.

Residential customers must subscribe to both Bright House Networks Home Phone and Road Runner services while Bright House Business Solutions customers must subscribe to both Bright House Networks phone and High-Speed Internet services to utilize the app. 

The easy gadget app from Bright House Networks is supported on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The easy gadget iPhone app is fully compatible with the easy gadget app for Windows PC and Apple computers that Bright House Networks launched in 2009.

Bright House Networks has launched ESPN Goal Line, a new high-definition network available to Bright House Networks Sports Pack subscribers. ESPN Goal Line features unlimited live cut-ins and highlights from numerous top college football games during each Saturday of the college football season plus up-to-the-minute commentary from ESPN analysts and experts, including ESPNEWS anchor Anish Shroff who will serve as the primary host and Rod Gilmore who will be the main analyst. Bright House Networks customers in central Indiana will be among the first to have access to ESPN Goal Line.

Games featured on ESPN Goal Line will include those airing on ESPN’s family of networks and syndicated and locally-produced games from Football Bowl Subdivision conferences, capturing the best live action of the day. This season, ESPN Goal Line programming will be weekends only, starting at noon on Saturdays until games are finished at around 11:30 p.m. A similar service called Buzzer Beater is planned in time for college basketball season. Bright House Networks Sports Pack customers can watch ESPN Goal Line on channel No. 435.

Bright House Networks today announced in partnership with TNT and PGA.com, it is featuring coverage of the 92nd PGA Championship live in 3D on Thursday and Friday. The company is offering its digital HD customers exclusive 3D coverage of the PGA Championship, shown live from Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wis., at no additional cost.

The 3D coverage will focus on Whistling Straits’ Nos. 12 and 17 – both par 3s – from 3-7 p.m. EST each day. Host Vince Cellini, who will be joined by 2002 PGA Championship winner Rich Beem, will provide commentary and analysis on the famous par 3 holes. He will also provide analysis throughout the weekend during PGA.com’s extensive 2D online offerings. The 3D feed will be available to Bright House Networks digital HD customers on channel No. 1000.

The 3D production will utilize eight cameras produced specifically for 3D that will provide a unique look at course action and give fans a dynamic visual experience to watch the world’s best golfers play the course’s challenging par 3’s. Bright House Networks digital HD customers who wish to access the PGA Championship in 3D will need a 3D TV and the TV manufacturer’s specified 3D glasses.

Bright House Networks in central Indiana will add 10 new high- and standard-definition channels this month and debut its exclusive Start Over feature on some of its most popular channels. Seven of the 10 new channels will be in high definition and available free to customers who subscribe to the corresponding channel tier. These channels will be added to Bright House Networks programming throughout August:

DIY HD (channel No. 826)
National Geographic Wild HD (channel No. 831)
Fox Soccer HD (channel No. 825)
Game 2 HD (channel No. 905)
Sportsman Channel HD (channel No. 443)
Fox Soccer Plus HD (channel No. 824)
Starz HD (channel No. 276)
Logo (channel No. 156)
Military History Channel (channel No. 159)
Fox Soccer Plus (channel No. 424)

Start Over allows viewers to restart a live program from the beginning at any time during its scheduled broadcast. When customers tune to a Start Over-enabled show in progress, they are alerted to the feature through an on-screen prompt. By pressing “select” on their remote control, customers can restart the program from its beginning. Bright House Networks will offer more than 32 channels with Start Over capabilities by the end of August.

An Indianapolis Public Schools teacher and two Carmel High School graduates have won separate honors and educational grants from Bright House Networks for their entries in two national competitions.

Beth DeSalvo (in photo at right, receiving her award from Bright House Networks marketing manager Brooke Krodel), a speech-language therapist at Ernie Pyle Elementary School (IPS No. 90), won the 2010 “Get Schooled: Educate Motivate and Inspire” competition hosted by Bright House Networks in partnership with Get Schooled, a national education program co-developed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Viacom.

DeSalvo will receive a $2,000 educational grant that she’ll use to buy new books for students undergoing speech-language therapy. She started her own library in her school’s therapy room and entered the competition in hopes of receiving funding to add to her collection of 100 books, specifically obtaining more books for first- and second-grade students

Mark Hodges and Parker Myers, who graduated from Carmel High School in May, won a national honorable mention in C-SPAN’s national 2010 StudentCam competition their senior year. The duo submitted a video documentary titled “Homeless in America” that focused on homelessness and its challenges to the nation. Hodges and Myers will each receive a $500 educational grant from Bright House Networks as the local winner of the competition. Hal Espey, broadcasting instructor at Carmel High School, will receive a $1,000 educator’s grant for representing the efforts of Hodges and Myers.

DeSalvo, Hodges and Myers will be honored at a June 24 Bright House Networks Education Celebration Gala in Orlando, Fla.

Arcadia M. Washington has been named director of customer care for Bright House Networks Indiana. She has worked with the Birmingham, Ala., division of Bright House Networks since 1997. For eight years, she was a customer service representative before being named customer care manager in 2005. Washington was responsible for overseeing the customer care operation in Wetumpka, Greenville and Eufaula, Ala., including a call center and two service and sales centers.

In Alabama, Washington is an active member in the community, with current and past involvement in the Emanon Group, a non-profit education advocacy organization; the Wetumpka Chamber of Commerce; and Leadership Elmore County. She has served as board chair of the city of Wetumpka’s “Christmas in the Coosa” board, a member of the Elmore County Community Foundation and a participant in the River Region United Way Campaign. She has also been an active participant with the cable industry’s Women in Cable initiative.

Originally from  Wetumpka, Ala., Washington earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Troy University in 2001 and a master’s degree in management from Troy University’s Graduate School of Management.

Bright House Networks has named Karen Broach to the post of regional vice president of operations for the company’s Indianapolis and Birmingham, Ala., divisions. As president of Bright House Networks’ Birmingham division, Broach has been responsible for full managerial oversight of the operation, including strategic planning, budget development and accountability, financial analysis, audit compliance, regulatory compliance, human resources and customer-care activities.

Broach has nearly 25 years of experience in the cable industry. Before joining Bright House Networks, she was vice president and general manager Charter Communications’ Southern Wisconsin division. She previously held positions at Time Warner Cable and Fanch Communications.

Broach’s industry involvement includes current participation in the Alabama Cable Telecommunications Association, where she serves on the board of directors. In the past, she participated and was an active member in the Wisconsin and the Pennsylvania cable television associations. She is also a member of Women in Cable Telecommunications and is a 2009 graduate of organization’s Betsy Magnness Leadership Institute. Her community outreach includes involvement with Cable in the Classroom, United Way and Habitat for Humanity.

American Idol season No. 8 winner Kris Allen will be in Indianapolis Thursday night (May 6), making a special appearance during performances by more than 1,100 student-musicians celebrating the successes of a 10-year partnership that has restored music education in all Indianapolis public schools.

Allen recently signed a new record contract with Universal Music. His self-titled debut album has sold more than 250,000 copies and his latest single,” Live Like We’re Dying,” recently reached No. 18 on the Billboard charts.

The 7 p.m. concert at Conseco Fieldhouse is a free event but tickets are required for admission. Tickets are available at any IPS elementary school.

The concert is the finale for the “Save the Music” initiative that began in 2000 by Bright House Networks and VH1 Save The Music Foundation. When Bright House Networks first joined forces with VH1 Save The Music Foundation to help IPS, music programs were virtually non-existent in the elementary schools and suffering badly in the higher grades because of budgetary constraints and the high cost of instruments.

Since, Bright House Networks and VH1 Save The Music Foundation have provided 42 IPS schools with $1.13 million of new musical instruments to restart IPS’s instrumental music program, including band and strings programs, for elementary, middle and high school students.

Bright House Networks digital customers can enjoy CBS College Sports Network and its coverage of the 2010 NCAA men’s championship basketball tournament for free from today through April 5 on channel No. 430.

CBS College Sports Network will complement CBS Sports’ exclusive live network game broadcasts by providing more than 80 hours of coverage of the men’s tournament. CBS College Sports Network will also air the official highlight show of the tournament, NCAA March Madness Highlights presented by Coke Zero. Right after the end of each day’s games on CBS Sports, the highlight show will recap the action of the day with all the scores, news, highlights and analysis.

In addition, NCAA March Madness Central engineered by GMC Sierra will bring viewers exclusive in-progress game highlights, live look-ins and press conferences from every team at every site from the first-round through the championship game. For CBS College Sports Network’s complete broadcast schedule, visit CBS College Sports Network online.

County Commissioners will proclaim Tuesday “Bright House Networks-Net Literacy Day” in Hendricks County, recognizing the dedication of Bright House Networks and partner Net Literacy of Indiana to the local community through their current initiative that will provide computers at no cost to a host of area non-profits that need them. The recognition will occur during the county commissioners’ regularly scheduled weekly meeting that begins at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Hendricks County Government Center, located at 355 S. Washington St. in Danville.

On Feb. 26, Bright House and Net Literacy donated the final round of computers to Sheltering Wings, an emergency housing facility in Danville, Ind., for women and children suffering from domestic abuse (photo at left). Over the course of the last few weeks, nearly 50 computers were donated to seven Hendricks County non-profits that combined provide programs, services and computer access to more than 8,000 county residents. These Hendricks County non-profits in addition to Sheltering Wings have received personal computer donations from Bright House and Net Literacy to either implement or enhance a computer lab within their respective organizations: Hendricks County Senior Services, Sycamore Services, Mental Health Association, Susie’s Place, Head Start and Daycare Nursery Center.

Net Literacy of Indiana is an Indiana-based non-profit incorporated in 2003 by middle school students that has repurposed thousands of computers and established community computer labs in dozens of Indiana communities to provide computer access to more than 100,000 Hoosiers throughout the state.