Newsplayer Announce Agreement

Newsplayer Group PLC
21 June 2001


                                                                 21st June 2001
                                       
       Newsplayer signs broadband distribution deal with Freeserve Plus
                                       

Newsplayer  Group  plc  (NPG),  the  new  media  Company,  today  announces  a
distribution  agreement with Freeserve Plus, the broadband  portal,  to  share
subscription and advertising revenue generated from NPG properties.  The  deal
will  involve  Freeserve  Plus  promoting  and  thereby  driving  traffic   to
Newsplayer.com,  Frost.TV and the recently acquired Hollywood collection  from
Passport International Productions.

NPG  Chief  Executive Paul Duffen commented:  'We own rights to  thousands  of
hours of compelling Broadband content and Freeserve can provide us with access
to  'Broadband Eyeballs'.  We are delighted to be involved with them  and  are
confident that the relationship will prove mutually beneficial.'


                                       
Enquiries:
Paul Duffen, CEO                             21st June:    020 7404 5959
Barry Llewellyn, Co-founder                  Thereafter:   020 7927 6699
Newsplayer Group plc
                                             
Gavin Partington/Harry Chathli               Tel:          [phone]
Brunswick Group Ltd

Notes to editors:

Newsplayer Group PLC exploits rights and/or licences to television and cinema
content, using interactive technology and markets them globally to B2B, B2E
and B2C platforms.

Revenues are generated from the licensing of content to third parties (B2B),
from the charging of subscriptions to schools and colleges for access to
bespoke educational products (B2E) and from pay-per-view and video-on-demand
fees from consumers (B2C).

Newsplayer's content portfolio includes 1000 hours of ITN and Reuters news
material, material from Columbia Sports News and Castle Films (Stock Video of
Boston) and Universal News (The Alison Mercer Collection) and hundreds of
interviews conducted by Sir David Frost (The Frost Collection).