To: tonto who wrote (1403 ) 12/18/1997 8:53:00 AM From: Bob Frey Respond to of 1702
NEWS! Thursday December 18, 8:36 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: EchoMedia Technology, Inc. Netmaster Group Signs Up Prodigy WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. and NEWPORT, R.I., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- EchoMedia Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Netmaster Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: NETZ - news) today announced that the Prodigy Internet division of Prodigy Services Corporation has purchased advertising space for a campaign that will be launched during the first quarter of 1998. EchoMedia will place Prodigy's interactive advertisement and online services installation software on 1,800,000 CD-ROMs. EchoMedia is the official advertising sales organization for the Simply Tax magazine print space and interactive advertising located on the Simply Tax CD-ROM for the 1997 Tax Season. ''This advertising campaign is tightly aligned with Prodigy's overall marketing goals,'' said Barry Kluger of Prodigy's public relations department. ''EchoMedia's unique advertising opportunities are helping to round out our overall marketing effort.'' Prodigy is one of the fastest growing Internet service providers in the United States. An ambitious roll out of an all-digital 56k network of more than 500 local dial-up POPs, coupled with Prodigy's superior customer service organization, forms the backbone of the Prodigy Experience which garnered PC Magazine's ''Editors' Choice Award'' (September 9, 1997) as the country's best Internet Service Provider. In 1998, Simply Tax (www.simplymagazine.com), one of the three major tax programs for PC's, will offer its tax preparation software at a suggested retail price of $5.99. It will also offer a new 96 page magazine which will include the complete tax program for $7.95. Simply Tax provides an obvious value compared to its two high-priced competitors. In the 1996 tax season, Simply Tax sold 1 million units. EchoMedia (www.echomedia.com) is providing interactive, multimedia advertising services to companies and Web sites. EchoMedia's fifth and most innovative product to date, Sesame-Ad, opens the World Wide Web to the power and impact of television commercials. Clients include Digital's AltaVista, Rodale Press, TravelFacts, Jumbo! and other Fortune 500 companies. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and projections (including statements including plans and objectives of management for future operations and services, and statements concerning expectations) that are based on management belief as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. The company's actual results might differ materially from the plans envisioned, or results projected by, those statements if the company's assumptions prove to be incorrect or for a variety of reasons. SOURCE: EchoMedia Technology, Inc.