Lodgenet Interactive
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LodgeNet Interactive Corporation ("LodgeNet") is a provider of media and connectivity solution
Solution
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s for hospitality, healthcare and other guest-based businesses. LodgeNet provides digital video on demand (VOD) solutions, broadband Internet solutions, satellite TV and professional services to approximately 10,000 properties representing more than 1.9 million rooms around the world. LodgeNet is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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 and has facilities in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
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 and Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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. The company's primary customer base is in the continental United States
United States
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, however they also deliver services to hotels and healthcare facilities in Canada
Canada
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, Mexico
Mexico
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 and more than 20 other countries through relationships with local licensees.

History

LodgeNet was founded in 1980 as Satellite Movie Company. In 1991 they were renamed LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation and became a publicly traded corporation in 1993. LodgeNet purchased The Hotel Networks, On Command, and Stay Online corporations in 2006 and 2007, and changed its name to LodgeNet Interactive Corporation in 2008.

Through its LodgeNet Healthcare division, LodgeNet also offers the LodgeNetRX(R) Interactive Patient Television System to healthcare facilities wanting to enhance patient education, increase staff efficiencies and improve the in-room experience for patients and their visitors.
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