MSNBC.COM Rated #1 Online News Site for January 2000.

        The Site Remains the Leader in Day-to-Day Online News Coverage and Breaking 
        News Coverage with Record 8.2 Million Unique Users for the Month 
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- 
        MSNBC.com (http://www.msnbc.com), the leader in breaking news coverage on the Internet and programming for interactive television, is the #1 news Web site for January 2000 according to Media Metrix. January's traffic data solidifies MSNBC.com as the primary source for news on the Internet with significant leads in both the At Work and At Home audiences, as well as the combined Home/Work audience. 
        With record 8.2 million unique users in January, MSNBC.com takes its largest lead-to-date over second place CNN.com as well as a substantial lead over the entire CNN Network of Web sites. With 12% of the combined Home/Work Internet audience, MSNBC.com leads CNN.com by 5.1 points. MSNBC.com is the leading online news provider ahead of USAToday.com, FOXNEWS.com, CBS.com and ABCNews.com for January 2000 and for each month of 1999. 
        "MSNBC.com has maintained its position as the leader in online news coverage for all of 1999 and into 2000," said John Nicol, general manager of MSNBC.com. "The in-depth reporting as well as breaking news coverage has proved invaluable to our largest audience to date of 8.2 million unique users. Traffic has grown significantly in the last year and our daily traffic numbers are the strongest they have been since launch." 
MSNBC.com is the number one news site on the Web, according to Media Metrix*, the industry standard in Internet measurement services. As the leader in breaking news and original journalism on the Internet,         MSNBC.com additionally delivers the best of NBC News, MSNBC Cable, CNBC and NBC Sports.                                 MSNBC.com provides expanded content via with The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, ZD Net, MSN MoneyCentral, The Sporting News, Expedia.com, E! Online, Pencil News, FEED magazine and APBnews.com. MSNBC.com takes a leadership position in the delivery of broadband content for Road Runner, Sprint High Speed DSL and Excite@Home, in addition to programming interactive television with MSNBC Cable and NBC News. 
        MSNBC is a 24-hour cable and Internet joint venture of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and NBC News (NYSE: GE).