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Attention Cyber-Romeos and Digital-Juliets: Virtual Romance Can Be Yours On VH1.com

Business Wire, Feb 2, 2000

Entertainment Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000

Valentine's Day is coming and your heart is full of that most noble of all sentiments: love. Now VH1.com makes it easy to let that special someone know how you feel, in a 21st Century way with &uot;Download Your Love.&uot;

&uot;I got eight words for you,&uot; said Fred Graver, SVP at VH1.com, &uot;but you have to imagine I'm talking like Barry White. Ready? 'Oh, yeah. You got mail, lover. Right here.'&uot;

Love has never been so easy. Visitors choose a virtual Valentine's Day card from our list of ten and VH1.com puts the best K-tel love songs, courtesy of RioPort Inc., The MTVi Group's exclusive provider of digital downloads, and K-tel International (NASDAQ: KTEL), at your disposal (in the form of MP3 digital files) so you can dedicate your favorite tune and embed it in your email card, and voila - love is in the air.

Each &uot;Download Your Love&uot; Valentine's card on www.VH1.com comes with a sample of a classic K-tel love song.

On each card a &uot;download&uot; button causes a small browser to pop up which offers an MP3 K-tel track from RioPort, including the following songs:

* Behind Closed Doors / Charlie Rich * In The Summertime / Mungo Jerry * When A Man Loves A Woman / Percy Sledge * Wild Thing / Troggs * A Groovy Kind Of Love / Wayne Fontana * Stand By Me / Ben E. King * More, More, More (part 1) / Andrea True * My Guy / Mary Wells * Goin' Out of My Head / Little Anthony &The Imperials * Take The Highway / Marshall Tucker Band

So what are you waiting for? Love is in the air and VH1.com is there to email it to you.

About The MTVi Group

The MTVi Group is the world's leading Internet music company featuring the most comprehensive collection of music destinations on the Internet. The MTVi Group's 18 worldwide destinations include MTV.com, VH1.com, and SonicNet.com. The MTVi Group is a unit of MTV Networks, which is owned by Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B). Headquartered in downtown New York, The MTVi Group has satellite offices in San Francisco, CA. Liberty Digital (NYSE: LMG.A and LMG.B) holds a minority stake in The MTVi Group.

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