CNN Web Sites' Coverage of Clinton Testimony Lifts Traffic to Record 20.4 Million Page Impressions.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1998--The CNN Web sites served a record 20.4 million page impressions on Monday, Aug. 17, the day that President Clinton gave his grand jury testimony and made his address to the nation.

The day's traffic was up 31 percent on the sites' previous busiest day and up almost 50 percent on the daily weekday average for the previous week.

Internet users were drawn to many of the interactive and multimedia features related to the investigation of the President, including:

- a "Quick Vote" poll on whether impeachment hearings should be

opened, which garnered the highest response for a daily poll,

with 164,000 voters, more than double the average number;

- an email alert for the timing of the President's address, which

attracted 25,000 subscribers within hours;

- CNN's Audioselect service, offering live audio feeds of five

CNN networks, which had a record of 254,566 listens over 24

hours, triple the service's previous busiest day, July 24;

- a related message board, which received an average of 300

messages an hour in the afternoon;

- CNN's online chat rooms, which were as busy as they were in

Sept. 1997 following the death of Princess Diana.

The CNN Web sites generate more traffic and attract more unduplicated Internet users than any other company's general news and information Web sites. The CNN Web sites, which averaged 85 million page impressions per week during June 1998, consist of: CNN.com; CNNfn.com, a unit of CNN Financial News; CNNSI.com, a joint sports site with Sports Illustrated; AllPolitics.com, a U.S. political news site produced in conjunction with TIME magazine; CNN CustomNews, a personalized news service operated with Oracle technology; CNNenEspanol.com; CNNemPortugues.com; and Svenska CNN, a Swedish-language news site produced with Scandinavia Online.

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