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EXPAND EXCLUSIVE VIDEO STREAMING DEAL --GO Broadcast and Mr. Showbiz Join Wall of Sound to Bring Entertainment Boulevard's Streaming Media Online to Music and Movie Fans-- MARINA DEL REY AND SUNNYVALE, CA - August 11, 1999 - Infoseek Corporation (Nasdaq: SEEK), home of GO Network (www.go.com), a premier global media network that provides consumers with solutions for everyday life, and Entertainment Boulevard, Inc. (NASD OTCBB: EBLD) (www.entertainmentblvd.com), host of entertainment-oriented streaming content programming, today announced an expansion of their content sharing agreement, giving music and movie fans an increased opportunity to view a significant amount of streaming content on GO Network. As announced on July 6, 1999, Entertainment Boulevard hosts music videos on GO Network's Wall of Sound (www.wallofsound.go.com). Under the expanded agreement, Entertainment Boulevard is now the exclusive provider of music videos and movie trailers for GO Broadcast (www.broadcast.go.com) as well as the exclusive provider of movie trailers for Mr. Showbiz (www.mrshowbiz.go.com). Entertainment Boulevard created and will host co-branded pop-up players, accessible from various places on GO Network's GO Broadcast and Mr. Showbiz. GO Broadcast visitors will be able to easily view a selection of Entertainment Boulevard's extensive archive of music videos on a pop-up player. The pop-up movie trailer players, available shortly on GO Broadcast and Mr. Showbiz, will offer selections from one of the largest libraries of movie trailers on the Web. All of the music videos and movie trailers are broadcast over RealNetworks' RealPlayer G2 at speeds of up to 300K. "This agreement allows GO Network to provide a large music and movie audience with an added source of information that they can enjoy along with reading movie reviews or biographies on their favorite actors," said Patrick Naughton, executive vice president of products, Infoseek. "With streaming previews, users can conveniently view exclusive music videos and watch their favorite movie trailers right from their computer." "We received great response over the addition of CD reviews and music news to Wall of Sound and we look forward to the same response with today's announcement of movie news on the GO Network GO Broadcast center and Mr. Showbiz," said Entertainment Boulevard CEO, Stephen Brown. "This deal helps bring movie and stars to life for Internet users across the country."
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