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October 06, 2008 06:06 PM Eastern Time 

Boingo Wireless and MLB Advanced Media Partner to Bring Live Video Streaming of Select MLB Playoff Games in Airports

Subscribers Can Watch Live Baseball with Special “Airport Edition” of MLB.TV

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boingo Wireless, Inc., the global market leader in Wi-Fi, announces that it has entered into an agreement with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, to provide a special offer for its customers to watch select live playoff games in participating airports. TBS, the national broadcast rightsholder for the Division Series and American League Championship Series, is also partner to this agreement.

“We are excited to partner with Boingo to give Major League Baseball fans unprecedented online access to live playoff games in airports across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico”

When at one of the 23 participating airports, Boingo customers will be able to purchase a special four-hour pass to the special “Airport Edition” of MLB.TV to watch every Division Series and American League Championship Series game on TBS live without blackout restrictions and on-demand. Subscribers will also be able to use the pass to watch any regular season or postseason game from the MLB.com archives on-demand. The cost for the four-hour pass is $4.00.

“We are always looking for ways to make the Boingo Wi-Fi experience more enjoyable to our customers,” said Dawn Callahan, vice president of marketing for Boingo Wireless. “Working with MLBAM to bring live video streaming showcases both our commitment to bringing the best of entertainment and sports to our customers, as well as our speedy and reliable Wi-Fi networks in airports.”

The special offer is available exclusively to Boingo customers only when they access their subscription in a participating airport. When a customer logs in or purchases Wi-Fi access via Boingo, the MLB.TV special “Airport Edition” offer will be presented and airport passengers will be able to watch any Division Series or American League Championship Series game live without blackout restrictions.

“We are excited to partner with Boingo to give Major League Baseball fans unprecedented online access to live playoff games in airports across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico,” said Kenny Gersh, senior vice president of business development, MLBAM. “Thanks to TBS, we are able to reach traveling fans with these live games so they can watch every pitch of every game. Fans can also get closer to the action in the Division Series and American League Championship Series with TBS Hot Corner on MLB.com, a live streaming application featuring an interactive mosaic with four distinct camera angles.”

Participating airports are: ATL-Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; AZO-Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in Michigan; BNA-Nashville International Airport; BWI-Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, DCA-Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; DTW-Detroit Metro Airport; EWR-Newark Liberty International Airport; HOU-Houston William P. Hobby Airport; IAD-Dulles International Airport; IAH-George Bush Intercontinental Airport; JFK-John F. Kennedy International Airport; LGA- LaGuardia Airport; MDW-Chicago Midway International Airport; MEM-Memphis International Airport; MKE-General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; MSP-Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport; OKC-Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City; ORD-Chicago O'Hare International Airport; SDF-Louisville International Airport; SJU-San Juan (Puerto Rico) International Airport; SLC-Salt Lake City International Airport; YYZ-Toronto Pearson International Airport; and, YOW-Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport.

About Boingo Wireless

Boingo Wireless, Inc. is the global market leader in Wi-Fi. Boingo makes it easy for consumers to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 100,000 hotspots worldwide -- including airports, hotels, cafes and metropolitan hot zones -- with a single account. Through its Concourse Communications Group, LLC subsidiary, Boingo operates wired and wireless networks at 30 airports worldwide, including 24 of the top 100 North American airports. More information about Boingo and Concourse is available at http://www.boingo.com and http://www.concoursecommunications.com.

About MLB Advanced Media

Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of Baseball’s Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com, and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information and interactivity on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game previews and summaries, extensive historical information, online ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live full-game video webcasts and on-demand highlights, live and archived audio broadcasts of every game, Gameday pitch-by-pitch application, around-the-clock hosted and specialty video programming and complete blogging capabilities. MLB.com offers more live events on the Internet than any other website in the world.

Boingo, Boingo Wireless, Boingo Mobile, the Boingo Wireless Logo and Don’t Just Go. Boingo! are registered trademarks of Boingo Wireless, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Contacts

Boingo Wireless
Jeremy Pepper, 310-309-5984
jpepper@boingo.com
or
MLB Advanced Media
Matthew Gould, 212-485-8959
matthew.gould@mlb.com

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