HDNET TO EXPAND HI-DEF BROADCAST PROGRAMMING THROUGH AGREEMENT WITH CINEMUSE

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World's only all high definition television network will broadcast more than two dozen documentaries and other entertainment programs from CineMuse Library, one of the largest collections of hi-def originated programming in North America.

NEW YORK CITY, (January 16, 2002) - HDNet, the world's only all high definition (hi-def) television network, will expand its programming with more than 25 original hi-def programs through a new licensing agreement announced today by CineMuse, the leading hi-def production, distribution and licensing company.

The programs from the CineMuse Library include entertaining cultural and educational documentaries on topics including White House photographers, Mexico's Copper Canyon, radical sports, as well as the Cannes Film Festival Award-winning Performance Pieces starring F. Murray Abraham. The CineMuse Library is the largest collection of hi-def originated programs in the United States.

"CineMuse has created the nation's largest network of hi-def cinemas at museums and other cultural institutions in North America. We are very excited that HDNet, the nation's leading hi-def broadcast network, will be bringing CineMuse Library programs to its growing television audience," said Ted Geier, president and CEO of CineMuse.

HDNet is available to viewers across the country on DIRECTV® channel 199, and produces and televises more hours of HDTV programming each week than any other network. The programs from the CineMuse Library will be added to the station's current roster of sports, entertainment and news programming, which includes Major League Baseball, National Hockey League games and reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan with Peter Arnett. HDNet also recently announced an agreement with NBC to broadcast events from the upcoming 2002 Winter Olympics in hi-def on NBC's DTV affiliates and on HDNet.

"CineMuse has assembled one of the largest and best quality libraries of original hi-def programming, and HDNet is very pleased to be adding more than two dozen of these programs to our broadcast schedule," said Mark Cuban, chairman and president of HDNet.

About CineMuse
CineMuse is a national leader in hi-def production, distribution, and exhibition. The CineMuse Library offers the largest catalogue of hi-def originated programming in the United States. Through an alliance of cultural and educational institutions being developed by CineMuse and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, CineMuse has established the CineMuse Network, the first national e-cinema network offering a regular series of hi-def programming to audiences in cities across the country. For more information about CineMuse or the CineMuse Network, call (212) 965-4660 or visit the Web-site at www.cinemuse.com.

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