BBC Choice Commission for 8 Part Digital TV Series

365 Corporation PLC
22 March 2000


365 Corporation plc wins large BBC CHOICE commission for eight part Digital TV
                                    series

365 Corporation plc ('365') the provider of content, community and
communications services across multiple digital platforms announces that it
has been commissioned by BBC CHOICE, the BBC's entertainment channel for
digital viewers, to produce a major, celebrity-led TV series in the run-up to
the Euro 2000 football tournament.

The eight-part series, provisionally entitled 'Mark Owen's Celebrity Vespas',
is due to begin airing in May 2000 and is the core of BBC CHOICE's coverage of
Euro 2000.

The programme will follow Mark Owen, former singer with the group Take That
and famous football fan, plus up to seven other celebrities on a journey
through Belgium and Holland, the host nations for the tournament, visiting the
eight towns and cities where Euro 2000 will take place. The celebrities will
travel through Europe on Vespa scooters.

Following the impact of the 365 production of Mike Tyson in the UK, also made
for BBC CHOICE, 'Mark Owen's Celebrity Vespas' is one of the largest
commissions so far awarded by the channel. The commission represents another
important step in 365's strategy of creating high quality, unique content
across multiple digital platforms, in order to generate significant revenues.

In addition to the TV series 365 will produce unique content available on the
365 network of websites. Football365, Music365 and the new Euro 2000 site will
host content planned to include celebrity-led guides and their reviews of the
football venues, specially commissioned pictures, video and audio clips, and
celebrity top tens

BBC CHOICE is now available via digital satellite and digital terrestrial to
10 million viewers and from April will increasingly provide refreshing,
unpredictable entertainment television.

Commenting on the commission, Dan Thompson CEO of 365 said:

'We are delighted to be working with BBC CHOICE on this major new series. The
commission allows us to draw on our expertise and experience in both the sport
and entertainment fields, and in multi-platform delivery, as well as bringing
strong additional revenue to the group.'

Stuart Murphy, Head of Programming, BBC CHOICE said:

'BBC CHOICE will increasingly be setting the pace for aggressive and
innovative TV in the digital environment and we are delighted to be working
with 365 on another inventive entertainment series.'

Enquiries:

365 Corporation plc                               Tel: [phone]

Dan Thompson, Chief Executive Officer
Simon Morris, Marketing Director                  www.365corp.com

Financial Dynamics                                Tel: [phone]
Giles Sanderson
Fiona Meiklejohn


NOTES FOR EDITORS - 365 Corporation plc

CURRENT CONTENT AND SERVICE OFFERINGS

Consumer

Sport
Football - www.football365.com (English), www.futbol365.com (Spanish),
www.football365.fr (French), www.talkfootball365.com (Football content on a
cross platform basis via TalkFootball365, a telephone and Internet service).

Cricket - www.cricinfo365.com (daily e-mail publication in joint venture with
CricInfo), www.cricketline.com (a leading site for International cricket,
complete scorecards of every Test match ever played).

Rugby - www.rugby365.com (produced in four language versions - English,
French, Spanish, Afrikaans), www.rugbyrugby.com (North American rugby
website), www.planet-rugby.com (a market leading online rugby resource
including breaking news, unique statistics).

Racetips: www.racetips.com (a site dedicated to Horse Racing giving the inside
track on news, form and the horses to follow).

Formula 1: www.planet-f1.com (website featuring news, features and a
searchable archive of every race in F1 history).

Sports Overview: www.sportszine.co.uk (complete guide to sport on the Internet
through a searchable database of over 40,000 individually reviewed websites),
www.sportonair.com (UK's first dedicated sports audio website with hourly
news, features and interviews).

Entertainment
Music - www.music365.com (reviews of albums and singles, interviews with
artists and personalities and topical stories, on-line chat forum, on-line
shopping facilities for concert tickets, CDs and videos).

Competitions - www.win365.co.uk (a cross-platform competition based product).

Games - www.planet-trivia.com (a network of live, multiplayer trivia games
where users can compete in real time against anyone else in the world on a
variety of topics including television, education, history, entertainment and
sport and win prizes).

365Television - The first production, a documentary on boxer Mike Tyson's UK
fight, was commissioned by the BBC and recently aired on BBC Choice and BBC2.

Lifestyle
Companionship - www.personals365.com (an on-line companionship product),
www.theswitch.co.uk (a multi-platform product using the web and telephone for
chat).

Advisory services - telephone-based services to users.  365 provides telephone
lines and systems and Infogenie procures the advisory services, currently for
legal services and veterinary services.

365Television - The first production, a documentary on boxer Mike Tyson's UK
fight, was commissioned by the BBC and recently aired on BBC Choice and BBC2.

Gardening - www.gardening365.com - content and commerce site for number one
British passion.

Business

The Business Division provides communication services and Internet
applications to small and medium sized enterprises in the UK and Ireland.  It
aims to provide a 'one stop shop' of communications services and Internet
applications to its customers.  365 currently provides voice and data access,
telephone systems, mobiles, Internet access and related hardware.  In order to
work towards national coverage, 365 has formed equity joint ventures with 12
telecom systems dealers across the UK.  Under these arrangements, 365
contributes its expertise and access to its customer service and billing
infrastructure, while the dealer contributes local sales and marketing
expertise.  The existing customer base of the joint venture partners provides
the initial target for 365's marketing efforts.


BT Cellnet and Genie Internet
365 provides content to BT Cellnet's Genie Internet. BT Cellnet is the Mobile
Internet market leader and currently has over 7 million customers using its
voice services and over 500,000 mobile Internet users. Genie Internet launched
the UK's first fully operational commercially available WAP services and its
Infotouch and Mmail data services - the first mobile Internet services
available to all digital customers based on existing SMS text messaging - with
86 million SMS messages sent over the BT Cellnet network in January 2000
alone.