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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 and Comcast have teamed up with the Indiana High School Athletic Association to offer customers the chance to relive some of history’s most exciting Indiana boys basketball state championship games On Demand. Starting today, classic boys basketball state championship games from the IHSAA’s extensive video vault will be available on Bright House Networks’ Local On Demand channel No. 600 and in the “Get Local” category of Comcast’s On Demand library at no additional cost to digital cable customers.

Leading up to this year’s 100th boys tournament March 27 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, which can be seen exclusively on the HomeTown Sports Indiana (channel No. 81 on both Bright House Networks and Comcast), the following classic IHSAA boys championship games are available starting today on On Demand:

1954: Milan vs. Muncie Central
In this game, the inspiration for “Hoosiers,” Bobby Plump hits the game winner with just 3 seconds to go for the biggest upset in state tournament history.

1955: Indianapolis Attucks vs. Gary Roosevelt
Oscar Robertson, future NBA player and arguably Indiana’s all-time greatest basketball star, leads Crispus Attucks to the first of its three state titles in five years.

1989: Lawrence North vs. Kokomo
In the last championship game played at Market Square Arena, Todd Leary scores 26 points and Eric Montross has 19 points and 18 rebounds for Lawrence North.

1995: Ben Davis vs. Merrillville
A matchup between the state’s two top-ranked teams ends with No. 1 Ben Davis winning its first-ever state title.

2007 4A: East Chicago Central vs. North Central
In the highest-scoring 4A championship game in IHSAA history, the Cardinals – coached by Pete Trgovich, who played for the undefeated 1971 East Chicago Washington team – outlast the Panthers to win the school’s first state title.

In the coming weeks, the following games will also be featured On Demand:
1956: Indianapolis Attucks vs. Lafayette Jefferson; 1965: Indianapolis Washington vs. Fort Wayne North Side; 1969: Indianapolis Washington vs. Gary Tolleston; 1971: East Chicago Washington vs. Elkhart; 1972: Connersville vs. Gary West; 1977: Carmel vs. East Chicago Washington; 1978: Muncie Central vs. Terre Haute South; 1980: Indianapolis Broad Ripple vs. New Albany; 1982: Plymouth vs. Gary Roosevelt; 1986: Marion vs. Anderson; 1990: Bedford North Lawrence vs. Concord; 1991: Gary Roosevelt vs. Brebeuf; 2000 4A: Marion vs. Bloomington North; 2005 3A: Washington vs. Plymouth; 2006 4A: Lawrence North vs. Muncie Central; 2007 2A: Northwestern vs. Winchester; 2008 4A: Brownsburg vs. Marion; and 2009 3A: Princeton vs. Rochester.

Bright House Networks has extended its sponsorship of the Indiana Pacers for another four seasons, the company announced today. The renewed sponsorship, in effect this season through 2013, includes continued exclusive sponsorship of Legends presented by Bright House Networks inside Conseco Fieldhouse and being the presenting sponsor of the Indiana Pacemates.

A new Video On Demand channel on the Bright House Networks system will also be created as part of the sponsorship. Pacers On Demand will be on channel No. 633 and available soon. The channel will feature pre- and post-game interviews, player interviews, Pacer executive interviews, video of the Pacemates in action, Pacers community involvement and more. Programming will be on-demand programming, allowing Bright House customers to watch whatever the Pacers programming they choose whenever they want to watch.

In 2006, Bright House Networks first entered into a major, multi-year commitment to the Pacers by sponsoring Legends presented by Bright House Networks, the large, 600-plus limited-membership area that offers an exclusive, all-inclusive environment designed to meet business and entertainment needs with style, comfort and first-class amenities during Pacers games and other events at Conseco Fieldhouse.