Music Choice Offers Full-Album Digital Downloads of Unsigned Artists; Company Expands its Role in Helping Expose Unsigned Artists.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Music Choice, the world's largest provider of commercial-free digital music, today announced that it is launching a digital download store featuring full albums of unsigned artists on its web site, http://www.musicchoice.com. Singer-songwriter Kathy Fisher's album "One" and acoustic band Naked to the World's release "Glass Half Full" are available for sale via download beginning today.

In conjunction with the sale of their downloads on the Music Choice web site, Fisher and Naked to the World were featured throughout September on the "MUSIC CHOICE Unsigned Artist Spotlight" segment; an offshoot of the enormously popular "MUSIC CHOICE Unsigned Show." The "Unsigned Artist Spotlight" airs on the Music Choice Showcase 1 channel, and takes an in-depth look at select musicians through artist interviews and songs. By airing to more than 10 million U.S. Music Choice customers, these artists can reach new audiences.

The music will be downloadable in Microsoft's Windows Media, a Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) compliant format. Each album will take anywhere from 60 to 120 minutes to download depending on the speed of the Internet connection. Recently, Music Choice became the first and only cable, satellite and Internet music provider to offer a full album by a major artist for digital download, when last month it announced that it was offering David Bowie's new release "hours ..." for download on its web site.

"This will help secure our position as leaders in the digital download arena," said Dave Del Beccaro, president and CEO of Music Choice. "We provide music fans with access to great music they can't find anywhere else and offer it to them in a secure format that is widely accepted. We look forward to working with other artists and record labels in the future by providing more digital downloads."

MUSIC CHOICE -- the world's first digital audio service -- provides cable, satellite, telephone and Internet customers with CD quality music 24 hours a day. Music Choice has 10 million customers worldwide. Headquartered in Horsham, PA, Music Choice is a partnership between General Instrument Corporation, subsidiaries of Sony Corporation of America, Warner Music Group, Inc., EMI Music and several leading US cable providers: Adelphia Cable Communications, Comcast Cable Communications, MediaOne, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable. MUSIC CHOICE is a registered trademark of Music Choice. Visit the MUSIC CHOICE Web site at http://www.musicchoice.com.