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CBS Corporation Exercises Warrants to Purchase 380,000 Shares of SportsLine USA, Inc. Common Stock.


FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 16, 1998-- SportsLine USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLN SPLN Spline ), publisher of CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast.  SportsLine, today announced that CBS Corporation
''This article describes the present CBS Corporation. For the CBS broadcasting networks, see CBS. From 1997 to 2000, there was a prior instance of CBS Corporation, previously named Westinghouse Electric, that was later purchased by Viacom.
 has exercised warrants to purchase 380,000 shares of SportsLine USA's Common Stock at $15.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds Net Proceeds

The amount received after all costs are deducted from the sale of a piece of property or security.

Notes:
In the case of an investor selling a security, net proceeds represent the proceeds from the sale minus any trading costs (i.e. commissions).
 to the Company of $5.7 million. Upon the exercise of the warrants, CBS Corporation owns approximately 2.05 million shares of SportsLine USA Common Stock, or approximately 10.4% of the Company's outstanding shares.

The warrants were issued pursuant to a five-year agreement between CBS and SportsLine USA, signed on March 5, 1997, wherein the Company's flagship Internet site was renamed cbs.sportsline.com. Over the remaining term of the agreement, CBS will receive 1.61 million additional shares of SportsLine USA Common Stock as well as warrants to purchase up to 1.14 million additional shares at prices ranging between $20.00 - $30.00 per share.

SportsLine USA, Inc. is a leading Internet-based sports media Sports Media, Inc. (SMI) is a Sports Media and Marketing company that produces radio and television programming as well as representing professional athletes. 2002 Cowboys Live - Hosted by Dallas Cowboys Joey Galloway  company that provides branded, interactive information and programming as well as merchandise to sports enthusiasts worldwide. SportsLine USA publishes CBS SportsLine, which features more than 400,000 pages of multimedia sports information, entertainment and merchandise covering all major professional, collegiate and international sports and includes exclusive content from sports teams, organizations and superstars such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal. SportsLine USA was founded in 1994, and its Internet sports service was renamed CBS SportsLine in March of 1997 as part of an exclusive five-year promotional and content agreement with CBS Sports.
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Date:Dec 16, 1998
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