Building America Television: Top Washington Area CEO's to Attend Major Event on Managing Uncertainty.

Business Editors

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2002

Speakers to Include Senior Executives From KPMG Consulting and

Nextel Communications 

Dozens of top CEO's from the Washington, D.C. region will be attending an exclusive BusinessNow CEO Forum on February 8, 2002, at the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology in Dulles, Virginia.

The forum is hosted by hosted by BATV, Inc. and Nextel Communications, Inc. BATV is celebrating 10 years in business as a multimedia video production company that specializes in the production of business TV programming. Nextel Communications, Inc. is the leading provider of mobile phone and communications to businesses.

"We're thrilled to be able to bring such an important event to the Washington area," says BATV Inc. Chairman and Founder Coerte Voorhees. "We at BATV are in a unique position to know many of Washington's major business players, so we're bringing together the best and the brightest to discuss what they're doing, how they're doing it, and how they plan to stay ahead of the curve in today's uncertain economic climate." Karen Ryan, Executive Producer and Host of BusinessNow, will MC the event and provide attendees with census information from questionnaires completed by the attendees prior to the event. A census taken in October 2001 revealed that 85% of CEO's ranked "refueling relationships with current customers" as their number one priority. The census also shows CEO's are increasing their focus on the development of strategic partners to provide their customers with a wider range of services more cost effectively.

Nextel Vice President Bob Johnson will discuss wireless digital networking, perhaps the next major technology to dramatically change people's lives. Many companies seek to create further efficiencies using just-in-time information for off sight employees ranging from airline crews to sales forces. Wireless digital networking enables that to happen through handheld devices.

Thomas W. Patterson, KPMG's Managing Director of Global Managed Services, will also give a talk including advice on how to manage uncertainty in the current economy. The event will be webcast live at www.businessnow.com and at www.kpmgconsulting.com as well as covered by BusinessNow. BusinessNow, an acclaimed news magazine television show, appears weekly on ABC Channel 7 (WJLA) 11:00AM Sundays. In addition to Washington, BusinessNow also broadcasts on the ABC stations in New York, Boston and San Francisco. Also, ABC News carries stories from BusinessNow to all 250 ABC stations throughout the U.S.

Many of the CEO's attending will be interviewed in private sessions about how they are managing uncertainty in today's economy. Highlights of their interviews will be included in the coming weeks on BusinessNow and will be webcast from ABCNews.com and businessnow.com.

BusinessNow is a fast-paced TV business magazine show that takes viewers on location and behind closed doors to look at America's most interesting companies and corporate executives. BusinessNow is produced by BNTV, a division of BATV. BATV is a private company founded in 1992, which in addition to producing BusinessNow, also produces multimedia video products.

Nextel Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTL), based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country covering thousands of communities across the United States. Nextel and Nextel Partners Inc., currently serve 195 of the top 200 U.S. markets.