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Charter Communications and Sinclair Broadcast Group have reached a 3-year retransmission consent agreement

April 12, 2007

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BALTIMORE -- Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) and Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI), announced today that they have reached a 3-year retransmission consent agreement, including high-definition programming. The agreement, which expires March 31, 2010, provides for the carriage of 28 television station signals in 19 markets owned or operated by Sinclair and servicing approximately 1.9 million unique subscribers.

"Charter's priority is to provide our customers value and choice through a broad array of programming, packages and enhanced services," said Cathy Fogler, Vice President of Video Programming and Product Management. "We're pleased to have reached an agreement with Sinclair that provides us the right to continue to deliver programming offered by Sinclair's owned or operated stations, and gives us the opportunity to expand high-definition programming to our customers."

"Sinclair is pleased to have once again taken a leadership role in working with multi-channel video distributors, such as Charter, to ensure cable subscribers in our markets continue to receive some of the most popular programs on television," commented David Smith, President and CEO of Sinclair. "Our mutually acceptable economic agreement with Charter demonstrates the value of broadcast television on alternative delivery systems."

Charter Communications Inc.

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