ABCNEWS.com to Stream Live Video of Friday, Dec. 17, ABC News "Nightline" Town Meeting and Wednesday, Jan. 5, Debate Featuring Gore-Bradley; Peter Jennings to Conduct Video Chat Following Jan. 5 Telecast

Business Wire, Dec 13, 1999

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1999--

ABCNEWS.com (http://abcnews.go.com), a part of GO.com (NYSE:GO), will stream live video of the Friday, December 17, ABC News "Nightline" town meeting (11:35 p.m., ET) featuring Vice President Al Gore and former Senator Bill Bradley, as well as the Wednesday, January 5, Democratic primary debate (7:00 p.m., ET) featuring Gore and Bradley co-hosted by ABC News' Peter Jennings at the University of New Hampshire. Ted Koppel will host the December 17 Town Meeting and Peter Jennings will co-host the January 5 debate.

Mr. Jennings will conduct a video chat on ABCNEWS.com following the January 5 debate.

"ABCNEWS.com is using the latest technology to ensure that these important events are made available to the widest audience possible," said Bernard Gershon, vice president and general manager, ABCNEWS.com. "Our election year coverage, taking full advantage of ABCNEWS.com and ABC News' vast resources, will bring the election process home to the populace like never before."

In addition to the streaming video and chats, ABCNEWS.com's coverage on those two evenings will include:

-- On-site video reports from ABCNEWS.com's chief Washington

correspondent Ann Compton -- On-site reports from ABCNEWS.com's political team following each

candidate -- On-site reports from ABC News political commentator George

Stephanopoulos and political director Mark Halperin -- Interactive candidate bios and profiles, including timelines,

issue positions and video -- Polling analysis from ABC News' polling unit -- Interactive calendar -- Opportunities for ABC debate viewers to express their views on

ABCNEWS.com

ABCNEWS.com's "2000 Vote" election coverage includes: daily briefings; video and audio political commercials; real-time vote data; a weekly "Politics Challenge" quiz; Ann Compton's daily "On Background" column on politics; SamDonaldson@ABCNEWS.com, a live, thrice-weekly, Internet-only program; the weekly "Here's The Point" audio program hosted by ABC News Political Director Mark Halperin; searchable video; and more.

ABCNEWS.com, the fastest growing news site on the Internet, is part of GO.com (NYSE: GO), a newly formed Internet company - the result of a merger between Infoseek Corporation and The Walt Disney Company's online unit, Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG). GO.com oversees many of the Web's most popular sites and services, including the GO Network portal, ABC.com, ABCNEWS.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, ESPN.com, ABCSports.com, NFL.com, NBA.com, NASCAR Online, Family.com and Mr. Showbiz.