COTAS Deploys Rovi Passport Guide to Enrich the Discovery and
     Management of Television Programming for Its Subscribers

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rovi Corporation
(Nasdaq:ROVI) today announced that COTAS (Cooperativa de
Telecomunicaciones de Santa Cruz), a leading service provider in
Bolivia, has deployed Rovi Passport(R) Guide to provide its digital
cable subscribers in the city of Santa Cruz with an enhanced television
viewing experience. Rovi has signed a multi-year licensing agreement
with COTAS for Passport Guide, marking distribution growth for the
company in Latin America.

Passport Guide boasts an intuitive and graphically-rich interface with
advanced search options that help COTAS subscribers quickly and easily
find the TV shows that they want. COTAS subscribers will be able to
view TV programs in a variety of formats--from listings to detailed
information about specific shows--and search for them by typing titles
into an on-screen keyboard with their remotes. In addition, Passport
Guide offers value-added features such as QuickMenu(TM), a configurable
menu which will enable COTAS subscribers to launch cable TV services
with a few clicks of the remote control.

"We are committed to providing our digital cable customers with
cutting-edge functionality that enables them to seamlessly access and
enjoy the TV and movie content that they love," said Adrian Vaca,
General Manager, COTAS Cable TV. "Rovi Passport Guide allows us to
offer our viewers innovative and easy-to-use features while also giving
us the flexibility we need to configure specific options for our
subscribers."

"With more and more program choices available on more channels to
today's television viewer, Passport Guide provides advanced sorting and
filtering features to help consumers easily find and manage their
television programming," said Bob Shallow, SVP of Worldwide Sales,
Service Providers. "We look forward to continuing to collaborate with
COTAS, and are pleased to add COTAS to our Latin America customer
roster deploying Passport Guide to enrich the television viewing
experience for subscribers."

COTAS joins other Rovi Passport Guide customers in Latin America
including: Megacable Comunicaciones, Supercanal Argentina, and Cable &
Wireless Panama.

About Rovi Corporation

Rovi Corporation is focused on revolutionizing the digital
entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers
to intuitively connect to new entertainment from many sources and
locations. The company also provides extensive entertainment discovery
solutions for television, movies, music and photos to its customers in
the consumer electronics, cable and satellite, entertainment and online
distribution markets. These solutions, complemented by industry leading
entertainment data, create the connections between people and
technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an
enjoyable form.

Rovi holds over 4,700 issued or pending patents worldwide and is
headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across
the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong,
Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Rovi can be
found at http://www.rovicorp.com/.

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CONTACT:  Rovi Corporation 
          Linda Quach
          +011 408 562 8504
          linda.quach@rovicorp.com