FIRST CALL Notes to be available on Fidelity's MAXXESS & MAXXnet.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1997-- FIRST CALL Notes will be available in July on Fidelity Investments' MAXXESS & MAXXnet systems.

MAXXESS, a Windows-based real-time financial market data system, and it Internet version -- MAXXnet -- are aimed at broker-dealers, investment advisors and asset managers. The systems currently have more than 10,000 users.

MAXXESS was introduced in the summer of 1996 by Fidelity Brokerage Technology Group, the technology subsidiary of Fidelity Brokerage Group. The system was accredited by CIO magazine when Fidelity Investments was named a winner of the CIO Magazine 1996 Enterprise Value Award. This award recognized Fidelity Investments as both an outstanding technology architect and a user of technology to improve customer satisfaction and business performance.

First Call's agreement with Fidelity brings the number of third party platforms over which Notes is available to 20. FIRST CALL Notes offers real-time delivery of global commingled morning meeting comments, intra-day research broadcasts and special equity notes from over 200 brokerage firms worldwide.

"We are very pleased to offer our MAXXESS and MAXXnet users access to First Call's information," said Jeffrey Banker, vice president of sales and marketing at Fidelity Brokerage Technology Group. "The combination of MAXXESS and First Call will allow our clients to access real-time, high caliber investment information when and where they want it through a unique, value added interface."

"We are continuously striving to provide our customers with exceptional service and unique delivery options over which they can access our information," said Bruce Fador, president and CEO of First Call Corp. "This agreement with Fidelity allows us to do just that. We are very excited to make our Notes product available over such outstanding systems as MAXXESS and MAXXnet."

All of Institutional Investor's top 20 ranked firms (which included 22 companies in 1996) distribute their information over FIRST CALL Notes, 17 of them exclusively. More than 2,000 institutional money management firms use Notes and the product is viewed at over 9,000 desktops in the United States alone. There is an average of 1,400 notes per day on the system and a peak of 3,000 notes per day during quarterly earnings report periods.

FIRST CALL Notes is available at users' desktops in a variety of ways. In addition to being available through Fidelity's MAXXESS and MAXXnet, the service can be accessed through a LAN via Microsoft Windows, through a dictated First Call terminal, through FIRST CALL On Call -- a dial-up method, or via other third party distributors.

Fidelity Brokerage Technologies Group, a division within the Fidelity Institutional Group, is chartered with commercializing, marketing and distributing Fidelity's information services platform. MAXXESS and MAXXnet utilize state of the art networking and display technologies to deliver commingled market data content to leading banks, brokerage and asset management firms. Fidelity's proven architecture allows for flexibility in anticipating evolving technology, cost and data requirements. Over 10,000 desktops subscribe to MAXXESS and MAXXnet services at over 160 firms. For more information, please call 1-800-280-6324.

First Call Corp. delivers real-time, commingled research, earnings estimates and corporate information to the worldwide financial community. FIRST CALL Research Direct allows clients to access commingled full-text equity research reports from more than 130 of the world's top sell-side firms electronically and in real-time. First Call's RTEE offers access to real-time earnings estimates on more than 17,500 companies as provided by more than 560 brokerage firms worldwide. From this RTEE database, First Call produces the FIRST CALL consensus estimate, a proprietary number often cited in leading financial publications. The FIRST CALL Fundamentals Database compiles critical fundamental data on more than 7,180 public companies and the FIRST CALL Recommendations Database compiles individual buy/sell/hold recommendations from Wall Street analysts. First Call also produces a proprietary FIRST CALL consensus recommendation from this collection. First Call is also a leader in delivery of commingled fixed income research notes and analysis via FIRST CALL BondCall Notes. BondCall Reports allows clients to access commingled full-text fixed income research reports electronically and in real-time. In addition, First Call provides its products to investor relations professionals via its corporate services division, with more than 2,000 companies using FIRST CALL to send and/or receive financial news. For more information, visit First Call's web site at www.firstcall.com .

Boston-based First Call, which launched its first product in 1985, is part of Thomson Financial Services, a leading provider of quality financial information, research, analysis and software products to the worldwide financial and corporate communities.

CONTACT: First Call Corp.

Faye Fardshisheh, 617-856-1158

Jenna Focarino, Dewe Rogerson, 212-688-6840