(September 5, 2002)                                                                                          Hot News Main Page

TFN, The Football Network, In Multi-Year Pact To Cover 
National Women's Football League

LYNNFIELD MA (Sept. 5, 2002) TFN, The Football Network, which plans to launch as a full-time national cable network next fall, has signed a multi-year contract to cover the National Women's Football League.

The announcement is the latest in a series of rights deal struck by TFN, which in recent weeks has announced contracts with the College Football Hall of Fame (for induction coverage), the Atlantic 10 Football Conference (for game coverage) and Pat Summerall (to host and produce programming).

"The National Women's Football League is an example of the wide ranging coverage we will offer to football fans across the country," said Jerry Solomon, President and CEO of The Football Network. "The NWFL has come a long way in just two seasons of women's full contact football, and we are excited about adding the NWFL to our expanding list of partners. This deal will heighten awareness for both of our entities; we will help to market each other and grow together."

TFN plans to show a NWFL Game of the Week, play-off game coverage, and a weekly magazine show. The NWFL, based in Nashville, has 26 teams with league officials expecting the number to rise to 30 before next season.

"By broadcasting our games on TV," said NWFL Founder and CEO Catherine Masters, "we know we can help TFN generate viewers, since it will be the only place you can go to watch women's full contact football. It's definitely a 'win-win' situation for us."

TFN's launch date of the Fall of 2003 will come in time to carry pre-season games for the NWFL's 2004 campaign, its fourth. Five weeks ago, the league concluded its 2002 season with the Detroit Danger topping the Massachusetts Mutiny 48-30 to win the championship before a crowd of more than 5,000 cheering fans in western Pennsylvania. "It was a totally amazing event," said Masters. "{Receiver/DB of Detroit} Angela Griffin {the game's MVP with two touchdowns and 167 receiving yards}, and the two teams sure helped prove that women can play an exciting brand of full contact football."

Believing that "Enough is Never Enough," TFN will serve the nation's 190 million football fans with non-stop coverage ranging from youth to professional football games, newsmaker interviews, awards shows, draft and training camp reports, studio programs, documentary specials, films, game shows, highlights and blooper shows, lifestyle features, fantasy football reports, and anything else the imagination permits. TFN will begin this fall to produce football programming to air on other networks until TFN is active on its own. TFN already produces weekly radio reports, heard on the syndicated Sports Byline USA, and has an active and informative Website, footballnetwork.com.

For further information on the NWFL, visit www.nwflcentral.com.

[Source: Debby Lening, VP of Media and Marketing, at 615-860-4084, Marty Appel, Public Relations 914-235-4017]