100 San Diego Students, Civic Leaders and Elected Officials to Participate in a Court TV Teen Forum On Youth Violence and Bullying.

Business Editors

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2001

Court TV To Air Discussion Nationally As Part

Of Its Choices and Consequences Initiative

Court TV announced today that, at the request of San Diego cable television system operators Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable, it will host and televise a "town hall style" teen forum with 100 public school students from six area high schools and middle schools.

The forum, which is part of Court TV's Choices and Consequences public service initiative, will involve school principals, teachers and psychologists, as well as Members of Congress and representatives of State and local government. Court TV, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable are sharing resources to produce the forum.

The forum will take place from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19th, in the theater of The School of Creative and Performing Arts, a magnet high school located at 2425 Dusk Drive in San Diego. Moderated by Court TV anchor Nancy Grace, the forum will focus on bullying and related issues including cliques, being picked on and the need for tolerance. It will also draw attention to positive programs that have already been developed to address these issues in schools. One of those programs, a new high school curriculum developed by Court TV that addresses bullying, among other issues, will be demonstrated with a class of high school seniors -- from 10:55 - 11:45 a.m. -- immediately prior to the forum.

The other schools participating in the forum include Kearny High School, Hoover High School, Marsten Middle School and Marshall Middle School -- all located in San Diego -- and Roosevelt Middle School in Oceanside.

The forum and the classroom demonstration will be open to the media. The forum will be taped and televised nationally by Court TV on Saturday, May 19, at 1:00 p.m. (ET). It will also be televised locally by both Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable at times still to be determined.

"Court TV's public service initiative, Choices and Consequences, has been involved in the effort to reduce youth violence for four years," said Henry Schleiff, chairman and CEO of Court TV. "Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications have worked with us on a number of initiatives during that time, and we are grateful for their assistance in this latest undertaking. We hope that this teen forum will help illuminate the issues contributing to youth violence and help the process of healing throughout the San Diego community. We also hope that high schools across the nation will take advantage of Court TV's new high school curriculum and other existing programs to help ease tensions and increase safety in our schools."

Court TV's new high school curriculum focuses on such issues as bullying, the importance and difficulty of being an eyewitness to a crime, the use of force in self-defense, and the juvenile and adult court systems. Written by Street Law Inc., a preeminent, non-profit curriculum developer, the curriculum is accessible to schools free of charge. It is based on taped excerpts of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning television series Homicide: Life on the Street and takes the approach that high school students will be captivated by the appeal of the highly regarded television series and its characters.

The high school curriculum was developed in response to requests from high school teachers who had seen Court TV's middle school curriculum. The middle school curriculum, which is based on actual trial coverage of cases involving teenage perpetrators, has been proven in an independent research study to be effective in reducing adolescent aggression.

Both the high school and the middle school curricula can be downloaded at www.courttv.com/choices. The accompanying programming can be taped free of charge through Court TV's Cable in the Classroom feed. A complete package of the printed curricula and programming is also available at a nominal cost by calling 800/333-7649.

Cox Communications serves 530,000 customers in San Diego and also owns and operates Channel 4 San Diego. Time Warner Cable-San Diego serves approximately 200,000 homes in the San Diego area.

Court TV (www.courttv.com), a basic cable network, provides a window on the American system of justice through distinctive programming that both informs and entertains. As the destination for crime and justice programming, Court TV broadcasts trials by day and crime stories in the evening. A service of AOL Time Warner and Liberty Media Corp., Court TV has over 55 million subscribers, has current commitments to reach 60 million, and expects to reach 65 million by the end of 2001.