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here!

Type	Premium television network
Country	United States
Availability	National
Owner	Regent Entertainment
Key people	Paul Colichman and Stephen Jarchow (founders)
Launch date	2002
Official website	heretv.com

here! is an American premium television network targeting the LGBT audiences. Launched in 2002, here! is available nationwide on all major cable systems and Internet TV providers as either a 24/7 premium subscription channel, a video on demand (VOD) service, and/or a subscription video on demand (SVOD) service.

here! is actively involved in the LGBT community and offers sponsorship to yearly events such as gay pride celebrations and film festivals as well as supporting a number of community organizations.^[1]

Distribution

here! is available through the following cable providers: Astound Broadband, Atlantic Broadband, AT&T U-verse, Bend Broadband, Brighthouse Networks, Buckeye CableSystem, Charter, Comcast, Cox, dish Network, Cablevision, Qwest, RCN, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Wave Broadband, WOW! and internationally on Rogers Cable in Canada as a video-on-demand service.

here! is also available through various IPTV Providers such as AOL, Blockbuster, Google, here! Online, MSN, Sling.

Programming

here! Originals

• Dante's Cove
• Lesbian Sex and Sexuality
• The Donald Strachey Mystery Series
• In Her Line of Fire
• The Lair
• The DL Chronicles
• here! with Josh and Sara
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars*
• Hot Gay Comics
• Paradise Falls
• here! News
• Love and Sex
• here! Focus
• Deadly Skies

here! Films

here! Films is the theatrical distribution and worldwide sales division of here! and was established in 2002 by Regent Entertainment co-founders Paul Colichman and Stephen P. Jarchow. here! Films’ North American theatrical distribution is handled by its sister company, Regent Releasing. here! Films is headed by Mark Reinhart, Executive Vice President of Distribution and Acquisitions.

• The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
• April's Shower
• Beautiful Boxer
• Breakfast with Scot
• Callas Forever
• Cthulhu
• Cut Sleeve Boys
• Eleven Men Out
• Fat Girls
• Guys and Balls
• Hellbent
• Holding Trevor
• Looking for Cheyenne
• The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
• Polar Opposites
• Queens
• Race You to the Bottom
• Shelter
• Straight-Jacket
• Summer Storm
• Tides of War
• Tru Loved
• The World Unseen
• Vivere

here! Tunes

here! Tunes is a music publishing company and virtual record label which provides music to all of the here! projects as well as to filmmakers outside of here!. Releases include Stewart Lewis, Soundtracks for Dante's Cove, The Lair and Shelter.

Online content

here! Podcasts

On the March 27, 2009 Topical podcast, Dave Rubin stated that here! was discontinuing all podcasts.

here! Video

In 2006, here! Networks offered its viewers a broadband portal to experience programming via the internet. here! Video offers trailers,clips and behind-the-scenes footage from most of here!'s vast library of programming. It also features all of the News, Focus and Love and Sex pieces as well as here!'s collection of short films.

Awards

here! Networks has received a number of industry awards including: Promax Awards, Broadcast Design Awards, American Design Awards, Aurora Awards, Aegis Video & Film Production Awards, W3 Awards, Davey Awards, Telly Awards, Summit ME Awards, Creativity Awards, New York Festivals Awards, CINE Awards and Omni Awards. here! has been honored by GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, with the Barbara Gittings Award, as well as by Cable Positive and the Gay Officers Action League.

On May 14th, 2009, here! was nominated for a Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award for “Ribbon of Hope Celebration” in the Outstanding Special Class Special category.

Affiliates

Here Media is a LGBT-targeted, multi-platform media company formed in 2008. The company includes here! Networks and Here Media, publishing magazines and books for the gay and lesbian market, with brands including The Advocate, Out, and HIV Plus, as well as the Alyson Books publishing division. Here Media also has digital media companies in the LGBT space. Its web properties include Advocate.com, Out.com, Gay.com, PlanetOut.com, HIVPlusmag.com, and the new SheWired.com.

References

External links

• here!