ADVISORY/SoapNet Taps ''All My Children's'' Rebecca Budig to Lead Network's Team in the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the Cure 2001 in Bean Town.

Entertainment & Lifestyle Editors

ADVISORY...for Sunday (Sept. 9)

--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)

       Fans Can Log On to SoapNet.com Beginning Tuesday, Aug. 21
         to Register to Walk with Rebecca and the Rest of the
                   SoapNet Team on Sept. 9 in Boston

WHO:     ''All My Children's'' Greenlee Smythe (Rebecca Budig) leads
         SoapNet team in the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the
         Cure.

         Budig joined the cast of "All My Children" in 1999,
         creating the role of beautiful troublemaker Greenlee
         Smythe. A veteran of daytime television, the
         Cincinnati, Ohio, native played the virtuous Michelle
         Bauer on "Guiding Light" for four years prior to
         landing her "AMC" role.

         "All My Children" takes place in fictional Pine
         Valley, Pa., which creator Agnes Nixon based upon
         the social circles of Philadelphia's Main Line
         residents. The series airs daily on ABC with same-day
         repeat airings on SoapNet, ABC Cable Networks Group's
         24-hour soap opera channel.

WHAT:    SoapNet continues its legacy of supporting women's issues by
         bringing soap star Rebecca Budig to Boston to lead the
         network's team in the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the
         Cure 2001.  Fans can register online at www.SoapNet.com
         to join the SoapNet team and walk with Rebecca.  In addition
         to walking in the race itself, Budig will participate in
         the event's opening and closing ceremonies.  She will also
         be on hand after the race to meet fans, sign autographs and
         give press interviews in the SoapNet Pavilion.

WHERE:   ONLINE REGISTRATION             RACE
         SoapNet.com                     Boston, Mass.
                                         Daly Field

WHEN:    Beginning Tuesday, Aug. 21      Sunday, Sept. 9
                                         8:30 a.m. - 12 Noon

MORE:    Launched in 1983, the Susan G. Komen Foundation Race
         for the Cure promotes positive awareness about
         breast cancer in addition to raising funds for
         education, screening and treatment for medically
         under served women. Over the past decade, the race
         has expanded to 111 cities nationwide and is
         expected to draw more than 1 million participants in 2001.

         SoapNet, ABC Cable Networks Group's 24-hour soap
         opera channel, combines the expertise of a leading
         cable programming group with the No. 1 source of
         daytime television.