Marathon Sports Group Kicks Off 'McCarver One-on-One' Talk Show With All-Star Roster of Sports Personalities
Daily Drive-Time Feature Set to Launch Jan. 4; Interview Archives Available for Sale at
Prosportsnet.com
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998-- Marathon Sports Group Inc., a subsidiary of Eclipse Entertainment
Group Inc. (OTC BB:ECLE - news), kicked off its weekly, four-hour ''McCarver One-on-One'' radio talk show on 402
stations nationwide this past weekend (Nov. 14 and Nov. 15) with a lineup of all-star sports personalities.
Hosted by legendary sportscaster Tim McCarver, the show features in-depth interviews with sports' most sought after and
interesting guests, including two-time Super Bowl champion quarterback and NFL sportscaster Phil Simms and 1998 Olympic
Gold Medalists Picabo Street, Johnny Moseley and Nikki Stone.
Other guests included legendary boxing trainer and ESPN analyst Teddy Atlas, two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and
Muhammad Ali biographer Tom Hauser, Sport magazine Editor in Chief Norb Garrett and super agent Scott Boras.
''We're very excited to be able to bring our listeners a quality radio talk show like 'McCarver One-on-One,''' said James
Moskovitz, president of Marathon Sports Group. ''Our high-quality guests, combined with Tim's superb interviewing skills,
have generated a tremendous response from our sponsors, listeners and the One-on-One Sports Radio Network.''
This week's guests on ''McCarver One-on-One'' are Women's Tennis Association Rookie of the Year Serena Williams,
National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and tennis star Mary Joe
Fernandez, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam on baseball and Women's Tennis Association CEO Bart McGuire.
December's upcoming guests include three-time Olympic Gold Medalist and Playboy centerfold Katarina Witt. The four-hour
''McCarver One-on-One'' talk show features original programming every Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. Pacific/11 p.m.
Eastern. ''McCarver One-on-One'' is also broadcast in real time over the Internet by eCharge at www.TimMcCarver.com
and by International Net Broadcasting (INB) at www.prosportsnet.com, both sponsored by Pepsi-Cola and Reebok.
Marathon Sport Group also announced that the signing of prominent sports stations in the nation's top 25 markets for its Jan.
4, 1999, launch of its daily, drive-time sports feature, ''Talking Sports With Tim McCarver.'' ''Talking Sports With Tim
McCarver'' will feature daily essays by McCarver on today's sports news.
A full sponsorship deal with one of America's leading retailers will be announced in December. Recently, Marathon
dramatically expanded its comprehensive agreement with INB to sell access to Marathon's expansive archives of interviews
through INB's unique Liquid Audio program.
With nearly 10 million hits per month, INB hopes to make Marathon's archives, which include more than 1,200 hours of
interviews with the greatest sports stars of all time, one of the Internet's most popular sports commerce sites. Audio interviews
of various lengths can be downloaded for fees ranging from $1.99 to $6.99 per interview.
Eclipse Entertainment Group is an entertainment company producing and distributing feature films and television and radio
programming. Eclipse has offices in Los Angeles; Bellevue, Wash.; New York and a production office in Vancouver, Canada.
Certain information included in this communication contains statements that are forward-looking, such as statements relating to
the future anticipated direction of the entertainment industry, plans for future expansion, various business development
activities, planning capital expenditures, future funding sources, anticipated sales growth and potential contracts. These
forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
operations or results to differ materially from those anticipated.
Contact:
Rogers & Cowan, Los Angeles
Francisco Lozano, 310/201-8800
or
Eclipse Investor Relations
888/822-ECLE (3253) |
