1-800-U.S.SEARCH Appoints C. Nicholas Keating Jr. President and CEO.

LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1999--The Kushner-Locke Co. (Nasdaq/NM:KLOC) Wednesday announced that its majority-owned subsidiary 1-800-U.S.SEARCH (SEARCH) has appointed C. Nicholas Keating Jr. as SEARCH'S president and chief executive officer.

Keating replaces Peter Locke, who was president since September 1998 and will remain co-chairman of SEARCH's board of directors.

Locke, co-chairman of both K-L and SEARCH, stated: "Nick Keating brings a wealth of operational experience to 1-800-U.S.SEARCH. For more than 20 years he has served as a corporate officer or director of both public and private technology companies, including two Nasdaq and one New York Stock Exchange company. He is a great addition to the 1-800-U.S.SEARCH team."

From 1987 to 1993 Keating was vice president and corporate officer of Network Equipment Technologies (NYSE), a provider of wide-area networking products and services. His responsibilities included corporate development, strategic partnering, international operations, investor relations and supervision of the legal department.

Keating was instrumental in developing NET's relationships with many companies including IBM, LM Ericsson, Tellabs and Cisco Systems. He also negotiated arrangements with both domestic and international telephony and data-network providers including France Telecom, Infonet, ATT Istel and British Telecom.

Since 1993 Keating has been an advisor to a number of worldwide organizations. His clients have included ATT, Lucent Technologies, Cornerstone Equity Investors and Integrated Telecom Technologies, which was sold last year to PMC Sierra.

Keating has assisted his clients in negotiating business relationships with various companies including Comdisco, Hitachi Data Systems, LM Ericsson, IBM and Samsung Electronics.

Keating serves on the board of directors, and has acted as an advisor to MCMS Inc., a leading electronics manufacturing services provider; E-Net Corp., an enterprise software supplier to the financial services industry; and LICenergy, a European software simulations company serving the global energy market.

Keating served for a number of years as chairman of GET A/S, a supplier of imaging technology to the electronic publishing industry. He negotiated the sale of that company to a European buyer in 1995 in an all-cash transaction.

Keating received his bachelor of arts in 1963 and master of arts in 1964 from American University, studied law at Georgetown University and was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico.

SEARCH, through its Public Records Portal, 1800ussearch.com, is a direct-to-consumer provider of public record information. SEARCH's current individual reference search services are primarily used for the purposes of locating people, conducting background checks, identity verification and adoption reunion services and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

SEARCH supports these services with trained Live Search Specialists and customer service personnel always available online or via telephone.

Kushner-Locke is a leading independent producer and distributor of feature films, direct-to-video films, television series, made-for-television movies, miniseries, and animated programming for theaters, network and cable television. Other operations include satellite channel, Gran Canal Latino and the Public Record Portal, 1-800-U.S.SEARCH.

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