Catalyst Finalizes Exclusive Contract With RealTIME MEDIA, Inc.

SARASOTA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 1997--Catalyst Communications, Inc., (OTC BB:CLYC), announced today that it has finalized an exclusive agreement with RealTIME MEDIA, a company based in Haverford, PA, to exclusively provide their phone cards with attached sweepstakes over the Internet.

RealTIME MEDIA has become the leading, full-service Internet promotion and contest management company by the pioneering of their Patent Pending Instant Scratch Games--the cutting edge promotional technology--played globally on the World Wide Web.

RealTIME MEDIA has a solid track record developing and managing Instant Win promotions on nearly 300 Web sites, including Cybercash, Yahoo, Softbank, Broderbund Software, Infoseek, Intermind, The Weather Channel (opening September 5) and MICROSOFT (opening October 1).

Introduction of the first two Catalyst/RealTIME MEDIA scratch and win phone cards will be in September. The cards will be available on the Internet at www.teleprizes.com .

"The ability to provide our prepaid phone card/sweepstakes over the Internet opens up a huge market for our products. We are extremely excited about this venture, especially with such a solid, successful company as RealTIME MEDIA", stated Carl Smith, Chairman/CEO of Catalyst Communications, Inc.

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