Court TV Partners With Educators, Cable Operators, Media Outlets, Anti-Defamation League, AT&T Broadband and YWCA To Produce Safe Passage: Voices From the Middle School Airing On Oct. 17.

Entertainment Editors

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000

Al Roker and Catherine Crier to Anchor the Live, Commercial-free

Telecast, Which Highlights the Issues Faced by Middle School

Students

NBC Television Network and ABC Radio Network to Distribute

Telecast to all of Their Affiliated Stations

In recognition of October as The Month of the Young Adolescent, Court TV will air an important and especially timely special Safe Passage: Voices from the Middle School. As part of its Golden Beacon Award-winning public affairs initiative, Choices and Consequences, Court TV will partner with The National Middle School Association (NMSA), YWCA of the U.S.A., AT&T Broadband, Cable in the Classroom, the Family Education Network, the Anti-Defamation League and others to present this one-hour program. In order to encourage in-classroom event viewing, Safe Passage will be broadcast live and commercial-free on Tuesday, October 17, at 12pm (ET). Court TV anchor Catherine Crier and the Today show's Al Roker will reprise their roles as co-hosts of the live telecast.

Drawing upon the far-reaching resources of this unique partnership, the program will feature the participation of 25 middle-school students from around the country assembled in the nation's capital. The special will focus upon some of the most common and difficult issues and problems of adolescence and discuss remedies and ways to deal with this passage of life. Safe Passage is Court TV's fourth annual collaboration in support of The Month of the Young Adolescent, and is part of the network's ongoing campaign to reveal the harmful effects of intolerance and hate, and highlight the positive ways to deal with diversity.

New national partners offer the opportunity to expand the reach of the show. Safe Passage is slated to air during the YWCA Week Without Violence, an annual public education campaign that focuses on practical and sustainable solutions to violence in our home, schools, places of work and communities. By partnering with the YWCA and numerous others, including the National Middle School Association (NMSA), Family Education Network (FEN) and Cable in the Classroom, Court TV aims to bring individuals, organizations and communities across the nation together to develop solutions for a safer environment for our youth.

United in their concern for the welfare of our nation's youth are Court TV in continued partnership with NMSA, AT&T BIS, Cable in the Classroom, the Anti-Defamation League, the US Department of Education, and the assistance of the US Department of Justice. In addition to the YWCA, new partners include FEN, the National Education Association (NEA), the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and support from our nation's top cable providers, including Comcast Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Adelphia, Cablevision, Charter Communication.

Court TV and its partners have created resources and partnership opportunities that can be implemented in schools and communities across the country. A resource guide, that can be used in the classroom or with any organization that provides human services, will be available in October. This will be an "open signal" telecast, available free of charge to cable systems and satellite distributors, and is expected to reach thousands of middle school students across the country via local cable television systems and satellite providers. The video will be available for taping during Court TV's regularly scheduled Cable in the Classroom feed at 4am (ET/PT) on Saturday, October 21 and Saturday, October 28.

NBC TV is distributing the telecast to all of its affiliated stations. Many NBC owned and operated stations and a number of NBC affiliates have already committed to carrying the special either live or on a tape delayed basis. They include: WNBC, New York (LIVE); WRC, Washington D.C. (LIVE); WTVJ, Miami (LIVE); WMAQ, Chicago (air date, TBD). In addition, there will be a live simulcast on ABC Radio Network, which will be distributed to all of its affiliates.

Court TV (http://www.courttv.com), a basic cable network, provides a window on the American system of justice through distinctive programming, which both informs and entertains. As the first and only cable network dedicated to crime and justice, Court TV broadcasts live trials by day and crime stories in the evening. A service of Time Warner Entertainment and Liberty Media Corp., Court TV currently has 47 million subs and is expected to grow by year-end to 50 million.