CNET Networks Unveils CHOW, Serves Up Interactive Food Content With A Decidedly Spicy Flair; Original Editorial and Robust Community Features Combine to Create Online Destination for Seekers of All Things Delicious.

SAN FRANCISCO -- CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET) (www.cnetnetworks.com) today unveiled the public beta of CHOW (www.chow.com), an interactive media property for food and drink enthusiasts online. Combining original editorial from the creators of the critically acclaimed CHOW Magazine with the passionate discourse of the Chowhound community, CHOW provides a place for a new breed of food enthusiasts to share and grow their interests through recipes, features, how-to pieces, personality profiles restaurant reviews and more.

Created to super-serve a segment of younger, more knowledgeable and opinionated food enthusiasts, CHOW targets users aged 25-49 and is nearly evenly divided by gender, with women making up 55 percent of the audience. Exemplifying the broad content and interactive features offered on CHOW, content available at launch includes a Team Cooking package that goes beyond traditional recipe suggestions to include an interactive tools, photo galleries, step-by-step technique photos and even a recommended music mix.

"CHOW is a Web site devoted to the pleasure of food and drink-- and by pleasure, we don't just mean consuming it," said Jane Goldman, editor in chief. "We mean making it, learning about it, buying it, selling it, spending huge amounts of time and energy experimenting with it, and discovering other people as passionate as we are about it."

"CHOW is an example of CNET Networks' ability to build robust interactive media properties and combine them with the category expertise and credibility of brands like CHOW and Chowhound," said Mike Tatum, general manager of lifestyle, CNET Networks. "This gives us the unique ability to create properties that engage the most passionate users in a category."

CHOW will roll out new features over the next six weeks and plans to revive the popular CHOW Gift Guide from the print editions online in time for the holiday season.

About CHOW

CHOW (www.chow.com) is an interactive media property for food and drink enthusiasts online. CHOW combines original editorial from the team that created CHOW Magazine with the passionate community of Chowhounds to create a different kind of food website for those who live to eat. CHOW includes recipes, tips for entertaining, restaurant reviews, trend stories, personality features and the passionate and opinionated voice of its users.

About CNET Networks

CNET Networks is a global media company with some of the most important and valuable brands on the Web targeting passionate audiences. The company's brands - such as CNET, GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com, Webshots, BNET and ZDNet - serve the technology, games and entertainment, business, and community categories. CNET Networks was founded in 1993 and has always been "a different kind of media company" creating engaging media experiences through a combination of world-class content and technology infrastructure.