Interactive TV Game Will Allow Students To Compete In Special College Edition Of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"

ABC’s Enhanced TV Offers Interactive Challenge To College Students During Telecast

On December 19-21, ABC’s Enhanced TV will feature the Interactive College Challenge, a real-time online competition in conjunction with the special College Edition of ABC’s "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." Viewers can play along for the school of their choice and compete against other college teams from across the country, with the hopes of crowning their school as interactive college champion. The three College Edition telecasts are scheduled for 8-9 p.m. ET/PT December 19-20, and 9-10 p.m. ET/PT December 21. ABC’s Enhanced TV programming is jointly produced by Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG) and theABC Television Network.

Walt Disney Internet Group & ABC Television’s Enhanced TV production of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" enables viewers to answer the same questions as the contestants on the television program in real time, with the click of the mouse on their computer. Enhanced TV users also score bonus points by quickly answering the questions correctly as they compete against all other online players watching the same telecast. More than 10 million unique viewers have experienced ABC’sEnhanced TV version of "Millionaire" since its debut in March.

Ten schools will compete during each "Millionaire" telecast, with these same schools also engaging in the Enhanced TV competition. Viewers can log on to http://etv.go.com/collegered at the beginning of the show and click on the Enhanced TV button to launch the interactive gamingapplication. They can then select their desired college from a pull-down menu, and accumulate points for that college team with each question answered correctly. A winning college will be crowned each evening at the end of each time zone’s telecast. In addition, individual top scoring players will qualify for exciting Enhanced TV prizes each night.

The "College Edition" television showfeatures students selected during "Millionaire's" first-ever contestant search. During the nationwide search, 30 students were selected from among thousands who responded to the live, in-person auditions held in Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago and Los Angeles.

The finalists are all current undergraduate college students who are at least 18 years old. Each finalist had to pass a 30-question written test before advancing to a videotaped interview with a "Millionaire" producer at the audition site. Finalists were selected based on poise, sense of humor and television presence.

Schools participating in College Edition of "Millionaire":

• American
• Arizona State
• Arkansas
• Bentley
• Brown
• Eastern Michigan
• Emory
• George Mason
• Georgetown
• Georgia State
• Georgia Tech
• Harvard
• Howard
• Johns Hopkins
• Lake Forest
• MIT
• Moraine Valley
• Morehouse
• Rio Hondo
• Spelman
• Suffolk
• California-Irvine
• Georgia
• California-Berkley
• U.S. Naval Academy

Walt Disney Internet Group & ABC Television’s Enhanced TV programming is delivered via an Internet-connected computer and is controlled by the user while watching the show simultaneously on television. It is neither a television experience nor an Internet computer experience, but truly both at the same time -- the first step towards in-home convergence programming.

Anyone with a personal computer, connected to the Internet via 28.8 modem or better, will have access to Walt Disney Internet Group & ABC Television’s Enhanced TV programming applications. Users must have 4.0 version browsers or better in order to receive the interactive programming. Access to the programming is free to all users, however users must register in order to be eligible for prizes. For more information on Walt Disney Internet Group & ABC Television’s Enhanced TV programming, go to http://etv.go.com.

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Eric Handler, Walt Disney Internet Group, (212) 672-2567 or eric.handler@dig.com