MusicMatch and Excite@Home Partner to Deliver Excite Jukebox for music.excite.com.

Business/Entertainment Editors

SAN DIEGO & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000

MusicMatch Jukebox Captures 61 Percent of All Jukebox Software Usage;

Powers Excite Jukebox

MusicMatch, Inc., inventor of the world's first all-in-one digital music jukebox, and Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM), the leader in broadband, today announced that online music fans now have access to the ultimate personal music system for experiencing digital music on http://music.excite.com.

Developed exclusively for Excite@Home, the new Excite Jukebox powered by MusicMatch combines the core MusicMatch(R) Jukebox(TM) 6.0 functionality with the expansive content of music.excite.com.

"Excite@Home is committed to offering a full suite of music services for all our customers whether they access Excite@Home content from a dial-up connection, or on a broadband connection from home or work," said Peter Negulescu, vice president and general manager, content applications for Excite@Home. "Partnering with MusicMatch has enabled us to broaden the range of premier music services we offer to our broadband customers, as well as, the Excite.com users to enhance their digital music experience overall."

Excite Jukebox powered by MusicMatch offers visitors to Excite Music a variety of powerful and personalized features for enjoying all of their favorite music including:

-- The ability to turn existing CDs, albums and cassettes into digital music
files with free CD-quality MP3 recording.

-- An integrated CD burner for creating custom MP3 or audio CDs.

-- The most sophisticated digital music management system to record and store
entire music collections in one location, create play lists and easily organize
a complete music    library.

-- The ability to create personalized MP3 radio stations based on favorite
artist, mood or individual tastes.

-- An integrated music guide for discovering new music and old favorites,
obtaining personalized music recommendations and accessing more than 100,000
free downloadable tracks.

-- Support for leading portable digital audio/MP3 players.

"We are proud to have been selected by the nation's No. 1 broadband ISP as the key software and music services partner to power the Excite Jukebox," said Dennis Mudd, CEO, MusicMatch, Inc. "By co-branding MusicMatch Jukebox 6.0, MusicMatch and Excite@Home are making it easy for music fans to experience the most complete personal music system available."

Media Metrix Confirms Active Usage Leadership

The Excite Jukebox is backed by award-winning jukebox technology from MusicMatch that consistently outpaces competing music jukebox software programs when it comes to active usage time. According to the recently released Media Metrix Q3 2000 SoftUsage Home Report, MusicMatch Jukebox has increased its lead as the most actively used jukebox software program to a 61-percent share (compared to 39-percent for RealNetworks' RealJukebox) of total active usage minutes for jukebox software in Q3 2000(a). MusicMatch Jukebox first captured the lead from RealJukebox by garnering a 57 percent share of total active usage minutes in Q2 2000.

About MusicMatch Jukebox

The award-winning MusicMatch Jukebox software is the first and only all-in-one jukebox software that delivers a personalized, customized music experience, giving music fans access to music they love, the way they want it. MusicMatch offers music lovers the freedom to play, record, organize and discover music in a multimedia-rich listening environment and also delivers personalized music recommendations based on listeners' individual tastes.

About MusicMatch, Inc.

MusicMatch, Inc. (www.musicmatch.com) is a music company focused on giving people the music they want, the way they want it. The company's award-winning MusicMatch Jukebox software is enjoyed by more than 12 million music fans worldwide that trust MusicMatch to deliver personal fulfillment through music.

About Excite@Home

Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM) is the leader in broadband, offering residential and commercial broadband services, with a global footprint of 87 million homes under long-term cable and DSL contract. Excite@Home offers consumers broadband services over cable-modem and DSL and businesses high-speed commercial services. Excite@Home has over 13.5 million cable franchise homes under contract outside of North America and localized versions of the Excite service in fifteen leading international markets.

This news release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include statements relating to the functionality, and the implementation of the functionality and results of the implementation of the functionality on the Excite Network. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including, Excite@Home's ability to achieve subscriber growth goals; agreements with and dependence on the actions of the company's cable partners; ability to generate revenue from Internet advertising agreements; and ability to continue to attract traffic to the company's Web sites. The matters discussed in this news release also involve risks and uncertainties described in Excite@Home's filings with the SEC. Excite@Home assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.

Note to Editors: (R)MusicMatch is a registered trademark of MusicMatch, Inc.

(TM)MusicMatch Jukebox is a trademark of MusicMatch, Inc.

Excite@Home, @Home, Excite and the "@" stylized logo are trademarks of At Home Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

(a) Jukebox software applications, as defined by MusicMatch, include MusicMatch Jukebox, RealJukebox and Windows Media Player 7.