Data Broadcasting's eSignal a Winner of Technology Investor Magazine's Voyager Awards for Best Investment Tools and Services.

Business Editors

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2000

Data Broadcasting Corp. (Nasdaq:DBCC) (DBC), a leading global provider of financial and business information to institutional and individual investors, today announced that eSignal was bestowed a Voyager Award by the editors of Technology Investor Magazine, recognizing it as one of the best investment tools and services in 2000 in the category of decision support software.

"We are especially gratified to have received this industry honor in the inaugural year of the award," said Chuck Thompson, senior vice president and managing director at DBC. "eSignal continues to develop new tools to accommodate the growing need of the sophisticated, online trader.

"With the recent launch of eSignal Market Scanner, DBC was the first to introduce a scanner that searches the entire database of stocks from the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges to provide customizable search results over the Internet based on real-time price performance to remote traders, an essential tool previously available only in professional shops."

Thompson added, "This award underscores eSignal's positioning as a leading one-stop service provider of real-time financial data to the active online investor community."

eSignal's popularity is supported by relationships with more than 60 online brokerage firms, including Dreyfus, a subsidiary of Mellon Financial Corp. (NYSE:MEL), Ameritrade Holding Corp. (Nasdaq:AMTD), Wall Street Access and Lind-Waldock, among others.

In addition, DBC has formed partnerships with direct access brokerages, including Preferred Capital Markets, CyBerCorp and On-Site Trading, that offer eSignal subscribers the ability to trade from within the product and seamlessly integrate eSignal's real-time information with advanced online trading platforms.

About eSignal

eSignal delivers vital streaming real-time financial data over the Internet to active traders and individual investors. The eSignal application includes a portfolio manager, a Nasdaq Level II display, fundamental data, intraday and interday charts, analytics, full text news and research, customized tickers, time and sales and an options montage window.

eSignal also provides news from CBS MarketWatch (Nasdaq:MKTW), Dow Jones News Service (NYSE:DJ) and Comtex, and can deliver limit alerts via pager, cell phone or e-mail. eSignal supports Windows(R) 95/98/2000/NT and is available for downloading at http://www.eSignal.com.

About Data Broadcasting Corp.

Data Broadcasting Corp. is a leading global provider of financial and business information to institutional and individual investors. The company supplies time-sensitive pricing, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world including hard-to-value, unlisted fixed income instruments.

At the core of the business are its extensive database expertise and technology resources. http://www.dbc.com

DBC delivers real-time, end-of-day and historically archived data to customers through a variety of products featuring Internet, dedicated line, satellite and dial-up delivery protocols. Through a broad range of partnerships and alliances, the company provides links to most of the world's best-known financial service and software companies for trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation.

The company owns approximately 34 percent of MarketWatch.com, which it founded and joint ventured with CBS, now part of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA).

DBC, with approximately 1,700 employees, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has more than 20 offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia including the world's key financial center of New York, London and Tokyo. Its majority shareholder is 60 percent owned by Pearson plc (London:PSON;NYSE:PSO), an international media company.