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CCBN.com Announces Content and Broadcast Services Agreement With Telescan.


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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2000

WallStreetCity.com Users Gain Access to the

Most Reliable and Comprehensive

Earnings Release and Conference Call Calendar Available on the Web

CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp
CCBN Charles County Business Network
.com, the leading provider of Internet-based corporate-investor communications, today announced a content and broadcast services agreement with Telescan, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:TSCN). Telescan's individual investor Web site, Wall Street City (www.wallstreetcity.com), is an award winning site ranked 11th by Barron's in its latest evaluation of all investment sites on the Web. Under the agreement, CCBN will deliver the earnings release dates and times, live conference call webcasts, and archived online replays of more than 6,000 public companies, making the events available to users of WallStreetCity.com.

Telescan users can easily access this information by clicking the "News" tab on the WallStreetCity.com home page. By choosing either "Earnings Release" or "Live Conference Call" on the left navigation bar A set of buttons or graphic images typically in a row or column used as a central point that link you to major topic sections on a Web site. If the navigation bar is a single graphic image with multiple selections, it is known as an imagemap. See imagemap. , investors will find that information is conveniently displayed in a calendar format showing the time and date of each event listed, along with a link to each company's financial data. Investors wanting to hear an archived conference call can find them through the conference call replay link, which lists past conference calls in alphabetical order.

Event information is made available by CCBN's comprehensive Internet-based portal, StreetEvents, (www.streetevents.com). StreetEvents is the nation's leading broadcaster of corporate earnings announcements and conference call webcasts, and provides aggregated, straight-from-the-source information on more than 6,000 public companies, including all of the S&P 500.

"This agreement with Telescan demonstrates one way that CCBN continues to level the playing field for individual investors. Until recently, information such as this was first released to institutional investors, and then eventually filtered down to the individual," said Rob Adler, President of CCBN. "With the Internet and award-winning sites such as Telescan, CCBN can deliver this critical information on behalf of companies to all investors at the same time."

Lee Barba, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Telescan, said, "CCBN's investment calendar information and webcasts will help our users stay in touch with the timely events and human interactions - like earnings releases and conference calls - that drive markets."

Access to this information comes at a time when the online investment community continues to grow and demand more timely information to make fully informed investment decisions. This agreement places critical, market moving event information at the disposal of WallStreetCity.com investors. At the same time, it allows CCBN customers to distribute their message to a broader base of investors, in keeping with CCBN's mission to facilitate direct communication between public companies and investors.

About Telescan

Houston-based Telescan (http://www.telescan.com) is an industry leader in providing Internet services to the financial and publishing industries and proprietary analytics and content to individual investors. Telescan's financial website, WallStreetCity.com, provides a powerful suite of search tools, technical analysis and financial data. Telescan's wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
, INVESTools Inc., operates the leading investment advisory subscription website (http://www.investools.com) featuring portfolio advice from proven money managers.

Telescan provides Internet services via private-label and co-branded versions of its proprietary Internet technology to many of the nation's leading financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 and media companies, including America Online See AOL. , American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. , Forbes, GlobalNetFinancial, NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
, and Time Inc. New Media (Fortune).

About CCBN.com

Founded in 1997 by Jeff Parker Jeff Parker can refer to more than one person:
  • Jeff Parker (ice hockey), a professional ice hockey player.
  • Jeff Parker (guitarist), guitarist for the band Tortoise.
, creator of First Call, CCBN.com (www.ccbn.com) is the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN builds, manages and hosts the investor relations Investor relations

The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors.
 sections of Web sites for more than 1,500 public companies, providing in-depth shareholder information through interactive, multi-media solutions.

StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), CCBN's event management service, offers access to the most comprehensive calendar of investment events and webcasts available to the financial community. Through partnerships with leading retail financial portals, CCBN delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to one of the largest collective audiences in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. .
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