OpenTV Presents Interactive TV Week in the UK; Enhanced programming includes World Cup soccer, Wimbledon, Big Brother and international cricket

Business Wire, June 24, 2002

Business Editors and Sports/Entertainment/Technology Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002

The United Kingdom is gearing up for the one of the biggest weeks for interactive television ever.

Beginning today, millions of Britons will have the opportunity to enjoy a plethora of interactive programming powered by OpenTV (Nasdaq:OPTV)(Euronext Amsterdam:OPTV), the world's leading interactive television company.

The UK leads the world in the penetration of interactive television. Approximately 40 percent of the population today enjoys interactivity via satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasts. OpenTV technology powers the most popular platform, the 5.9 million interactive set-top boxes that make up the BSkyB digital satellite network.

Over the course of the next seven days, these viewers will be able to enjoy an unprecedented array of enhanced and interactive programming. Highlights include:

World Cup soccer -- the British Broadcasting Corporation is

offering viewers the ability to select different camera

angles, audio commentary, match statistics, and review replays

and highlights of the matches. It also has 24x7 access during

the entire tournament to highlights of previous matches,

interviews with players and the latest statistics. Around the

world, approximately 20 million viewers in a dozen countries

are expected to access World Cup soccer applications enabled

by OpenTV.

Wimbledon tennis tournament -- The BBC is offering satellite

viewers a choice of four extra matches in addition to the game

that is being broadcast on the network's main television

channel. Viewers can also select alternative commentaries and

a comprehensive text service providing news and all the

scores.

Big Brother -- Satellite viewers of Britain's most popular

reality game show can choose from four different video feeds:

two streaming live footage and another two featuring

highlights of the action. Viewers can also vote for their

favorite contestants, enter quizzes, play a Big

Brother-branded game and place bets on the outcome.

International cricket -- Sky Sports Extra is taking viewers

closer to the action for the first three games of the One-Day

International Cricket series between England, Pakistan and Sri

Lanka. Each game features a choice of camera angles,

highlights, scoreboard and ball-by-ball statistics.

Additionally, digital satellite television in the UK offers: two 24x7 interactive news channels, Sky News and BBC News 24; Viacom's MTV Hits channel, which allows viewers to create their own playlist; and PlayJam, the world's largest interactive television gaming channel, which is available to more than 27 million viewers worldwide.

"We believe that this single week in the UK demonstrates that viewers have a real appetite for compelling and innovative interactive television content," said James Ackerman, chief executive officer of OpenTV. "OpenTV's worldwide base of more than 25 million iTV-enabled households provides broadcast network operators with the ability to offer some of the most advanced interactive TV experiences to their customers."

About OpenTV

The world's leading interactive television company, OpenTV powers more than 25 million set-top boxes worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive suite of iTV solutions including operating middleware, web browser software, interactive applications, content creation tools, professional support services, and strategic consulting. OpenTV is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with regional offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia/Pacific. For more information please visit www.opentv.com.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein, including statements regarding the continued proliferation of OpenTV's core platform and OpenTV's current and future position in the marketplace. Actual results can differ materially. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, whether current demand for interactive products and services will continue, the rate at which the market for interactive products and services will continue to expand, the timely identification, development and deployment of interactive products and services, customer acceptance of those products and services and the pricing thereof, the impact of competitive products and services and the pricing of those products and services, the impact of technological constraints and changes in technology, and other risk factors detailed in the documents filed from time to time by OpenTV Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those risk factors detailed in Item 3.D of OpenTV Corp.'s Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 18, 2001. OpenTV undertakes no obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.