CNN.com Adds Election News and Voting Capability to Wink Interactive Programming.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000

Viewers Now Able to Offer Opinions Via On-Demand; Access Available

to More than 1 Million Homes

CNN.com and Wink Communications today announced a new feature to be included in its news programming that will allow CNN viewers to participate in weekly election surveys, in addition to viewing 24-hour election news updates.

Using Wink Communication's Enhanced Broadcasting tools, more than one million households with Wink services will now have 24-hour access to CNN.com's Election 2000 coverage on their televisions. Wink Communications, Inc., (Nasdaq: WINK) has had an alliance with CNN, CNN Headline News, TBS Superstation and TNT since December 1997.

Beginning on Oct. 10 and continuing through the presidential election, CNN added election news highlights and the ability for viewers to reply to survey questions on their televisions. Each week, CNN asks viewers to respond on a variety of topics related to the candidates and their proposed policies. Every week the question, "Who do you think will win the presidential election?" is posed to viewers across the nation. The results of the first two polls indicate that Vice President Al Gore had the lead on Oct. 10 with 54.3 percent of voter support, and he continued that lead on Oct. 17 with 52.5 percent over Gov. George W. Bush. Opinion results from CNN viewers are posted every Tuesday along with the CNN.com content that accompanies CNN on-air programming throughout the day.

"CNN's relationship with Wink provides CNN.com with another opportunity for us to do what we do every day -- provide timely, up-to-the-minute news and information to as many people as possible," said Scott Woelfel, president and editor-in-chief of CNN Interactive. "The format is user-friendly, which is very important to us, but it's also compelling and will draw users to our Election 2000 news coverage."

"CNN is a leader, providing unmatched news coverage of Election 2000," said Jeremy Handelman, Wink's vice president of programming. "Via our alliance, CNN is now able to include true two-way capability via the television, with around-the-clock access to top election news and issue surveys. This information is delivered in a concise and easy-to-use format using the most familiar device in the home -- the remote control."

Wink Communications, Inc., is America's leader in `one-click' commerce over television. The company is based in Alameda, Calif. and provides an end-to-end system to enable interactive entertainment and electronic commerce on television. The interactive TV service, called Wink Enhanced Broadcasting, gives viewers an easy and convenient way to interact with programs and advertisements using their remote control while they continue to watch TV. Wink is free to the viewer, requiring no upgrades or additional hardware in the home for viewers with Wink services on their cable or digital satellite set-top box. Wink Enhanced Broadcasting was introduced in the United States in June 1998 and is currently available in satellite and cable households nationwide. Wink has been available in Japan since October 1996. A complete list of industry leaders who have adopted the Wink technology and additional information regarding Wink Communications is available at http://www.wink.com.

CNN Interactive is responsible for the award-winning news site CNN.com, as well as 14 other Web sites and the distribution of CNN news content via other platforms such as mobile phones. The CNN sites, which include nine international sites, are among the world's leading news and information destinations and are ranked the most trusted by Internet users worldwide. The CNN sites rank number one in Gross Usage Minutes among all online news and information sites. Gross Usage Minutes are an industry metric derived by multiplying unique users by time spent per user. The CNN Web sites produced 214,862,000 Gross Usage Minutes for September 2000.