This September, television viewers will have one-click access to breaking local and worldwide weather conditions, forecasts and alerts through a partnership announced today between NetChannel, the Web-enhanced personalized television service, and WeatherLabs. The partnership marks the first time that real-time weather updates from 2,000 cities worldwide will be available to consumers through their televisions.

"With NetChannel's award-winning service, a viewer can watch weather-related local television broadcasting and simultaneously monitor breaking weather developments worldwide," said Philip J. Monego, Sr., president and CEO of NetChannel Inc. "Whether you want to know the temperature outside your window, or want to see satellite images of cloud cover in Zanzibar, NetChannel is the only service that will deliver one-click access to weather via your television."

With WeatherLabs, NetChannel subscribers can see complete satellite and Doppler radar imagery, ski-reports and airport delays from around the globe. WeatherLabs' forecasts are updated three times a day and conditions are updated constantly.

"With NetChannel and WeatherLabs, television viewers can become armchair meteorologists," said Brendan Larson, president and CEO of WeatherLabs. "For the first time, weather news will be available on living room televisions when consumers want it, not when broadcasters schedule it."

NetChannel partners with leading television and online programmers selected to complement the television experience. WeatherLabs joins a range of top entertainment, sports, news and commerce partners including:

-- A & E

-- Amazon.com

-- Beatrice's Web Guide

-- CBS SportsLine

-- CDnow

-- Court TV

-- E! Online

-- History Channel

-- GIST Communications

-- InfoSpace

-- I-Village

-- InvestorsEdge

-- Internet Shopping Network

-- Intuit Quicken Financial Network

-- SABRE/Travelocity

-- Shoppers Express

-- SportsTicker

-- SurfWatch

-- Ticketmaster

-- USA TODAY

-- Women's Wire

-- Yahoo!

NetChannel's Electronic Program Guide (EPG) provides comprehensive localized television listings personalized to individual tastes. The EPG features Tune-by-Title and One-Touch-Record, which allows television viewers to enjoy seamless television and relevant Web programming with a click of the remote control. Viewers can find out what's on by sorting shows by their favorite categories.

The best of the Web television category, NetChannel will be available in consumer electronics stores nationwide this September with the RCA Network Computer.

More Information about NetChannel

NetChannel's award-winning service personalizes, enhances and expands the television experience for consumers by using the Internet as a resource to deliver programming, communications and commerce. In July 1997, NetChannel was honored by the Interactive Services Association with an ICEY Award for Innovation in Interactive Television. NetChannel is the service provider for Thomson Consumer Electronics' new consumer Internet access device, the network computer. Thomson Consumer Electronics is the nation's leading manufacturer of color TVs and VCRs under the RCA, ProScan and GE brands. NetChannel is a strategic partner of Network Computer, Inc. (NCI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. NetChannel supports open platforms, offering choice to content partners, hardware partners and, ultimately, to consumers. Founded in 1996, the company employs a staff of 125, with offices in South San Francisco, Atlanta and London. NetChannel Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NetChannel Inc., is based in London. For more information please see NetChannel's Web site at http://www.netchannel.net. NetChannel is a trademark of NetChannel Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. NetChannel's logo, screen shots and photographs of executives are available to the media upon request.

More Information about WeatherLabs

Contact: Louis Szilage, Louis@WeatherLabs.com, 415-243-9669

WeatherLabs, Inc., founded in suburban Chicago in 1990 with its world headquarters in San Francisco's "Multimedia Gulch," provides an array of weather information services to electronic publishing industries, such as, on- line services, the Internet/Worldwide Web, wireless and mobile phone technologies and satellite broadcast. WeatherLabs also provides software architecture and development solutions related to the visualization, analysis and dissemination of its weather data services. For more information, visit http://www.weatherlabs.com

Source: NetChannel