Bally Total Fitness and Sunkist Growers in Co-Marketing Campaign.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 1999--

Sunkist to Distribute Guest Passes in Bags of Fresh Oranges and

Advertise on Bally's In-Club Radio Network

Bally Total Fitness (NYSE: BFT) and Sunkist Growers announced today the development of a new co-marketing program calling for product sampling and advertising on Bally's recently launched in-club radio network. Under terms of the agreement, Sunkist will distribute 200,000 Bally Total Fitness 30-day guest passes in bags of fresh oranges nationwide as well as advertise its products on the Bally Total Fitness in-club Radio Network. Sunkist will also offer samples of their Sunkist fresh oranges in selected Bally Total Fitness centers.

Paul Toback, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development for Bally Total Fitness, said, "We welcome Sunkist Growers as our newest marketing partner. The health and nutritional benefits provided by Sunkist's fresh produce are clearly both valuable and relevant to our members."

Gene Sass, Sunkist Growers' Vice President, Marketing, said "This marketing program with Bally Total Fitness is important to us because it enables us to extend our target to some excellent prospective customers. Where else could you reach a nationwide target audience of such health-conscious consumers?"

With this agreement, Sunkist Growers becomes Bally's newest marketing partner joining a growing list of name-brand, consumer-oriented companies targeting active, fitness-conscious adults. Bally's other marketing partners include Procter & Gamble, Time-Warner, MBNA America and Coca-Cola, among other consumer marketers.

Bally Total Fitness' recently-launched in-club radio network - when combined with in-club traffic of more than 120 million visits per year and the company's fitness-focused website, www.BallyFitness.com, which is visited by more than 200,000 unique visitors each month - delivers millions of impressions each month for Bally's marketing partners.

Bally Total Fitness is the leading commercial operator of fitness centers in North America, with approximately four million members and more than 360 facilities located in 27 states and Canada.

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