TEAMtalk DELIVERS SMS FOOTBALL SERVICE TO RIM DIGITAL CITY USERS

TEAMtalk DELIVERS SMS FOOTBALL SERVICE TO RIM DIGITAL CITY USERS Regional Interactive Media, part of the RIM Group, have signed TEAMtalk, the sports media business to provide a football SMS service on all 134 teams in the UK leagues. TEAMtalk will provide news and scores over all mobile networks for every professional team in the UK. As well as providing the content, TEAMtalk will also manage the delivery of the service to RIM's on-line community. For just £8.50 a month users can subscribe to the service from any of the RIM's ten Digital City web sites, (eg. www.thisisleeds.co.uk) via a co-branded TEAMtalk section. The service will appeal to RIM's regional users as it covers all teams in the Premiership and Nationwide leagues, from Leeds United through to Blackpool. This new agreement is in line with TEAMtalk's strategy to supply quality sports content to large online communities via well respected and highly visited portals. Increasing numbers of major players are recognising the value in TEAMtalk's sports content. TEAMtalk already has content agreements with Yahoo!, AOL and Compuserve. Bill Wilson, TEAMtalk's Chairman and Chief Executive, commented: "We are extremely pleased to provide content to RIM's already successful regional web sites. Our content is particularly suited to their sports audience as we cover all teams in the Scottish and English Leagues." Marlen Roberts, Managing Director of Regional Interactive Media said: "RIM has always been at the forefront of delivering content over multiple channels. This service not only opens up yet another channel, but enhances the services on our already popular local websites. We chose TEAMtalk to deliver the SMS football service because of its in- depth content and team-by-team capabilities." Ends For further information please contact: Sheona Southern, Communications Director TEAMtalk Media Group plc 0113 399 2006 sheona.southern@teamtalk.com Marlen Roberts, Managing Director Regional Interactive Media Ltd 0113 238 8930 marlen.roberts@rim.co.uk Scott Learmouth WMC Communications 0207 591 3999 scott.learmouth@wmccommunications.com About TEAMtalk TEAMtalk, established in 1988, has evolved from providing fixed line telephony services to become a major provider of sports content and entertainment delivered to customers via the Internet, radio, TV, mobile and premium rate fixed line telephone and satellite networks. Bespoke content is distributed directly by TEAMtalk through its own sports portal, www.teamtalk.com, or sold to business partners for delivery via all major delivery channels. TEAMtalk covers all professional football teams in the UK, US, Germany and Sweden, in addition to over 250 top world teams across 60 countries. TEAMtalk writes over 5,000 stories each week on football alone, in addition to thousands of stories on other sports including cricket, golf, formula 1, horse racing, greyhound racing, rugby league and union and tennis. The Group's network of web sites attracts a loyal fan base of over 2.5 million unique users every month. Media Metrix has ranked TEAMtalk the top UK sports web site for 11 out of the last 13 months. The TEAMtalk Group has offices worldwide including in the UK, the US, Germany and Sweden. The team consists of over 520 staff, including 100 in-house journalists and 270 freelancers. About RIM The RIM Group publishes the Yorkshire Post, the Sheffield Star, five other evening newspapers, in addition to weekly paid for and free newspapers and a number of magazines and specialist titles. Regional Interactive Media now has 17 corporate web sites of which nine are Digital City portal websites, each providing a comprehensive news service in towns and cities where RIM has market leading titles. Regional Interactive Media's network of sites includes thisisleeds.co.uk thisisdewsbury.co.uk yorkshirepost.co.uk thisisharrogate.co.uk prestononline.co.uk thisissheffield.net blackpoolonline.co.uk eastlancashireonline.co.uk wiganonline.co.uk morecambeonline.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/09/20/20010920BIT00500/bit0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/09/20/20010920BIT00500/bit0001.pdf