AT&T Broadband And VH1 Save the Music Announce Continued Commitment To Support Music Education in Chicago Public Schools.

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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000

VH1 Host-Model-Actress Roshumba Will be Present At Donation Event

AT&T Broadband Greater Chicago Market, in partnership with VH1 Save The Music Foundation, today announced that they will donate $150,000 worth of musical instruments to Chicago Public Schools. The presentation will be made Thursday, October 26, 2000, at 10:30 a.m. at the Swift Elementary School at 5900 N. Winthrop Avenue.

VH1 host-model-actress Roshumba will be present at the event to announce the donation to the local school. Roshumba will be joined by cast members of the musical sensation "BLAST!," Patricia Andrews-Keenan, Executive Director Communications of AT&T Broadband, and Bob Morrison, Executive Director of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The participants will discuss their experiences with music education and the importance of music education for our children. Cast members from "BLAST!", currently playing at the Ford Center For the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre through November 5, will provide a short demonstration.

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America's public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the U.S. and by raising public awareness about the importance of music participation for our nation's youth.

AT&T Broadband, VH1 Save The Music and the local school board are working together to restore instrumental programs in the Chicago School District. "We are thrilled to take a role in this partnership to provide much-needed financial and musical instrument support to our community's students," said Joyce Gab Kneeland, Senior Vice President AT&T Broadband Greater Chicago Market.

"Music education builds brain power -- it is a necessity, not a luxury," said Morrison. "There is a growing body of scientific research that supports the importance of early music education and its effect on basic learning skills. With the help of committed partners like AT&T Broadband, VH1 Save The Music will successfully continue in its quest to make music education a reality for all children."

VH1 host Roshumba is an established supermodel, spokesperson and actress, best known as one of the beauties who graced the pages, calendars and videos of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Recognized worldwide as one of fashion's elite faces, Roshumba has worked for the top designers, magazines, advertisers and catalogues worldwide, including designers Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Chanel, Versace, Georgio Armani, Todd Oldham and Ann Klein. She has graced the covers and pages of Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Top Model, Allure, Playboy (as an article) and Cosmopolitan magazines, and represented such advertisers such as Hanes, Rayban, Samsung, Clairol, Maybelline, The Gap and Esprit. In addition, she has hosted shows for the Fox Network's Fox Style News, Lifetime Television's The Wire, City TV in Toronto's Ooh La La, and E! Entertainment Television's The Making of a Supermodel.

"Blast!" is a unique theatrical presentation an entertaining musical celebration that epitomizes a new era of dramatic staging, brilliant lighting special effects, exciting movement and thrilling pageantry. Led by artistic director James Mason, "Blast!" is comprised of 60 members in three performing sections - the brass, percussion and visual ensembles -whose collaboration brings the power, passion and precision of outdoor pageantry to the stage, with music ranging from classical to the blues, jazz, rock and roll, and techno-pop.

VH1 Save The Music and its partners conduct awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives, and fundraising events in conjunction with public schools to help restore instrumental music programs. In addition, the campaign utilizes ongoing celebrity public service announcements, government affairs efforts, web site resources, fundraising, and other special events, and VH1 programming such as the annual "VH1 Divas" and "Men Strike Back" specials. Since VH1 Save The Music was created in 1997, more than $10 million worth of musical instruments has been donated to 500 public schools, improving the lives of more than 200,000 children. The ten-year goal is to bring music participation to at least one million kids.

The national partner organizations of VH1 Save The Music include the National School Boards Association, U.S. Department of Education, Chief State School Officers Association, MENC-The National Association for Music Education, NAMM-International Music Products Association, the American Music

Conference, and America's Promise-The Alliance for Youth. VH1 Save The Music national sponsors are Tommy Hilfiger and Subaru. Sheet music and method books are being provided through a generous grant from the Diane Warren Foundation and ASCAP foundation as part of their Music In Schools Program in conjunction with Warner Bros. Publications.

VH1 Save The Music was recently honored with this year's prestigious Governor's Award, a special Emmy Award, from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, as well as a George Foster Peabody Award for broadcast and cable excellence, and two Beacon Awards, presented by the Cable Television Public Affairs Association to honor excellence in public affairs throughout the cable industry.

AT&T Broadband, a business unit of AT&T, is the nation's largest broadband services company, providing analog and digital television entertainment services to about 16 million customers across the nation. The company also provides advanced services, such as high-speed cable Internet services and competitive local phone service. AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T) is the world's leader in telecommunications services and technology.