ABCNEWS.Com and Sam Donaldson's Internet-only Webcast --"[e-mail]" - Expands to Five Days a Week.

Business/Internet Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2000

Streaming Video Webcast Available for Viewing On Demand;

Donaldson to Also Host Daily Segment On ABC Radio Networks

Starting Monday, June 5, visitors to ABCNEWS.com will be able to watch Sam Donaldson interview newsmakers and celebrities five days a week on his video Webcast, "[e-mail]." The show that first went live on September 27 has attracted guests from all walks of life, including Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, comedian Janeane Garofalo, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, comedian Tracey Ullman, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and former British Prime Minister John Majors. The show airs live daily at 12:30 PM ET, with all shows being archived so they can be viewed on demand.

In addition to the daily Webcast, radio listeners will be able to hear Donaldson daily on a five-minute radio show available to ABC Radio Network's more than three-thousand affiliates. The radio program will feature highlights from the Webcast and also will be called [e-mail].

The Webcast has proven extremely popular among all audiences, due to a guest list that spans all industries. The Sam that they are seeing is the "Internet Sam," and viewers are responding well to Sam's relaxed, humorous and freewheeling Internet personality. The interactivity of the Webcast allows users to vote on a daily ballot question, post their own questions to guests, and participate on the live message boards - even Sam himself gets into the online debates.

"It is thrilling to see such a credible and respectable news icon as Sam Donaldson embrace the Internet world as much as we do at ABCNEWS.com," said Bernard Gershon, senior vice president and general manager of ABCNEWS.com. "The Internet has created a medium where Sam can interview guests, that he might not have had the opportunity to, in an environment that is very different to what he was used to."

"Everyone is navigating new waters with the Internet," said Mr. Donaldson. "With the abilities and opportunities that ABCNEWS now has with ABCNEWS.com, it seems logical to utilize the World Wide Web as much as we can. With the streaming video, it is just like I am doing the television programs that I have been doing for years - only the atmosphere is more experimental, spontaneous and immediate."

"ABC News is committed to pioneering this new medium. We will dedicate the resources necessary to make ABCNEWS.com the undisputed leader in multi-media telecasting," says Bob Murphy, ABC News senior vice president, multi-media. "The use of streaming video, the ability to interact with our audience, and the access to new viewers has created an excitement and enthusiasm at and around ABC News that is unparalleled in the history of broadcast journalism."

ABCNEWS.com is part of GO.com, the Internet business of The Walt Disney Company. GO.com manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including the GO.com portal as well as ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, Family.com, ESPN.com, ESPNstore.com, EXPN.com, Mr. Showbiz, Soccernet, NFL.com, NBA.com, NASCAR Online and Movies.com. Steven M. Bornstein is the chairman of GO.com, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, California, with operations in Sunnyvale, California, Seattle, New York, Bristol, Connecticut, and London.

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