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TV Guide Online Names New Editors

Business Wire, July 2, 2008

Jennifer Holland Is Managing Editor, Matt Mitovich and Mickey O'Connor Are Senior Editors

NEW YORK -- TV Guide Online, a part of Macrovision Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ:MVSN), announced today that it has named three editors to new positions. Jennifer Holland, a former national editor for The Associated Press, will be the site's new managing editor, and TVGuide.com editors Matt Mitovich and Mickey O'Connor will become senior editors.

Holland, reporting to editor-in-chief and vice president of marketing Christy Tanner, will oversee day-to-day editorial operations for TVGuide.com and the seven additional sites in TV Guide Online's network, which had record traffic in May with over 13 million unique users.

Mitovich and O'Connor will focus on entertainment news and analysis for TVGuide.com, as well as leading the conversation with the site's active user community. Mitovich will continue his weekly online video news segment, the Mitovich Mega Minute, and his regular in-studio and red carpet video interviews with celebrities.

"Our editorial expertise and unique editorial voices have been key factors in our record growth this year," said Tanner. "These additions further strengthen our editorial team of over 20 people and position us for additional growth."

Holland joined TV Guide Online from the New York headquarters of The Associated Press, where she was a National Editor focused on breaking news. Holland began her journalism career with the AP in Iowa and later served as a statehouse correspondent and news editor in South Carolina. She graduated from Iowa State University.

Mitovich joined TV Guide Online in June 2006 as News Editor responsible for TVGuide.com's news blog "Today's News: Our Take," and most recently served as TVGuide.com's managing editor. Mitovich is a graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Before joining TV Guide Online in December 2007, Mickey O'Connor worked for Entertainment Weekly's EW.com and for Architecture magazine. He is the coauthor of The One and Only Flickheads Guide to the Movies and is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism with honors in cultural reporting and writing.

About TV Guide Online

TVGuide.com (www.tvguide.com), which offers a comprehensive and engaging way for fans to find, experience and share the latest entertainment news, content and video, is the flagship site of the TV Guide Online network of sites. The network, which includes AllMusic.com, AllMovie.com, AllGame.com, TVShowsonDVD.com, JumptheShark.com, TV-Now.com, and FansofRealityTV.com totals over 13 million unique users.

About Macrovision Solutions Corporation

Macrovision is focused on providing a brilliantly simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, acquiring, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, metadata on music, games, movies and television programming, media recognition, interactive programming guides, and copy protection. The company also operates entertainment portals including http://www.tvguide.com/ and http://www.allmusic.com. Macrovision holds over 3,500 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous office offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.> [c]Macrovision 2008. Macrovision is a registered trademark of Macrovision Solutions Corporation. All other brands and product names and trademarks are the registered property of their respective companies.

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