LONDON - November 25, 1997 - Missed Grandstand on Saturday? Wondering how the Premiership battle is shaping up and if Chelsea has won again? Then simply log onto Yahoo!, the world’s leading Internet media company, to quickly and easily find answers to all your football queries.

Located at http://www.yahoo.co.uk/teamtalk/ the new service, provided by Yahoo! and IMS Teamtalk, brings you all the latest football news every day of the week. The service, a must for any self-respecting football fan, is a totally independent football news and reports service covering 55 teams in England and Scotland.

You’ll not only find high quality, frequently updated football news with realaudio facility but you’re only one click away from a ticker tape headline news feed, team statistics, historical club data, on-line merchandise, competitions and an interactive ‘your say’ section.

Speaking about the new service, Yahoo! UK & Ireland Producer Ralph Averbuch says: "The UK seems to have an insatiable appetite for any type of football information - a subject which inflames our passions. I think our many users will find this a really helpful addition to our continued growing range of service. Yahoo!’s aim is to make the Web an easier environment in which to find information that people really want. Working with Teamtalk, we’re providing them with exactly that content."

Ian Holding, the IMS Sports Director and the man responsible for organising an in-house team of approximately 20 journalists and a nation-wide network of over 40 press agencies, believes the arrangement with Yahoo! further enhances Teamtalk’s growing reputation. "It is flattering to know Yahoo! feels we have the qualities of editorial which can add value to its site and satisfy the needs of its users. The Teamtalk site is already generating over 700,000 page impressions per month. Our involvement with Yahoo! is sure to increase this number significantly and quickly".

Yahoo! Football (specific to the UK) is the latest in a series of content announcements. Yahoo! is continuing to grow into global markets, reaching broad demographic, shared-interest and geographic audiences around the world. In addition to Yahoo! Football, November saw the launch of Yahoo! Finance, media sponsorship of the London Film Festival and the successful launch of localised services in Scandinavia.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is a global Internet media company that offers a network of branded Web programming that serves millions of users daily. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the single largest guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognised brands associated with the Internet. Yahoo! Inc. provides the targeted Internet resources and communications services for a broad range of audiences based on demographic, key-subject and geographic interests. Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has European offices in London, Paris, Munich, and Stockholm.

IMS Group Plc with offices in Leeds and London is the country’s leading automated call handling bureau. IMS currently handles over 50,000,000 calls a year to a host of information services and on behalf of many corporate clients and media organisations.

The company’s Telephone Publishing division produces and broadcasts sports information under brands which include Teamtalk, Rapid Raceline and Rapid Cricketlinc.

SOURCE: Yahoo! Inc.