ChannelSpace Launches First Affinity Portal - Collectingchannel.com, and Signs Exclusive Deal With Broadcast.com.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1998--

Affinity Portal Provider, ChannelSpace,

Launches CollectingChannel.com - Industry's

Most Comprehensive Collecting Web Site

ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. (CSEI), provider of affinity portals and original niche-based programming for Internet content aggregators, today announced the launch of its first affinity portal Web site: The CollectingChannel.

The CollectingChannel - in conjunction with the industry's leading collecting content providers - will provide the most comprehensive Collecting content available on the Web.

Additionally, it has signed an exclusive agreement with broadcast.com (Nasdaq:BCST), the leading aggregator and broadcaster of streaming media programming on the Web, to launch a "Collecting" channel on the broadcast.com Web site, located at http://www.broadcast.com/specialinterest/collecting/. Per the agreement, ChannelSpace has hired broadcast.com to host 15 hours per day of streaming audio and video collecting-related programming on the Collecting channel.

"The CollectingChannel is a collector's dream-come-true. It's amazing aggregation of the top collecting content providers and audio/video assets," said Barry Friedman, co-founder and President, ChannelSpace. "Broadcast.com is an ideal medium for us to reach both large and targeted audiences with streaming audio and video programming."

"We are pleased to be working with ChannelSpace to deliver their video programming to our audience and to add a channel to our site that caters to the growing collecting community," said Todd Wagner, CEO of broadcast.com.

Users will be able to access ChannelSpace's collecting programming via a "Collecting Channel" link from broadcast.com's Special Interest and Live Television channels. The Collecting channel on broadcast.com will address various categories including: action figures, antiques & arts, Barbies, baseball, basketball Beanie Babies, coins, comic books, dolls & bears, football, hockey, NASCAR, pop culture, stamps, Star Wars and trading cards. Content will be culled from the leading content providers in those areas including Landmark Specialty Publications (www.landmarkcom.com/landcredit.html#specialty), a division of Norfolk, VA-based Landmark Communications, Inc.

Landmark's successful series of collecting-oriented publications includes well-known magazines and price guides, as well as the Collector's Super Mall (www.collect.com), the largest source of online information about collecting.

The channel will also feature content from major content providers including:

-- Brimfield Associates - ChannelSpace has exclusive webcast rights

to Atlantique City (www.csmonline.com/atlantiquecity), the

largest -- over 12 miles in length -- indoor antique and

collectibles market in North America;

-- Amos Publishing (www.amospress.com) - famous publishers of brand

name, leading collecting magazines including Coin World, Linn's

Stamp News and Scott Stamp Monthly;

-- Antiques, Inc. - publishers of Kovels on Antiques and

Collectibles newsletter (www.kovel.com), and producers of the

videos, Collecting with the Kovels: American Art Pottery, I and

II.

-- Antique Trader (www.csmonline.com/antiquetrader/ ) - publishers

of the Antique Trader Weekly, the nation's largest antique and

collectible marketplace

(EDITOR'S NOTE: FOR DETAILS ON STRATEGIC CONTENT RELATIONSHIPS, SEE COMPANION RELEASE).

"My partner, Barry Friedman, and I have been passionately involved in collectibles all of our lives and a collecting channel is obviously an idea whose time has come," said Steve Sanford, co-founder and CEO, ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. "So many people like Barry and me use the Web as a resource for collecting. We're really excited that we can contribute so much relevant, original programming to this growing audience."

About ChannelSpace

ChannelSpace Entertainment, Inc. (www.channelspace.com), is a provider of affinity portals and original niche-based programming for Internet content aggregators. This groundbreaking model addresses the question: how do you reach more eyeballs? CSEI's cableTV-like model creates opportunities to leverage and package its own high-level audio/video assets as well as that of existing content providers to increase overall market strength and visibility. The CSEI goal is to be a platform-independent source of enhanced, customized channels to content aggregators of all media forms. CSEI's unique distributed engine technology model enables the Company to launch new channels at a rapid pace.

Product and company names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the sixth graph there is a URL address with a (pound) sign between "html" and "specialty." This symbol may not appear properly in all systems.