AGM Statement

Newsplayer Group PLC
27 March 2001


               Newsplayer Group plc ('Newsplayer' or the 'Company')

                                 AGM Statement

Newsplayer, the new media company whose principal activity is the exploitation
of rights and/or licences to television and cinema content, using interactive
technology and the marketing of them to a global audience, is pleased to
announce that at its Annual General Meeting, held today, all resolutions were
duly passed.

At the AGM, Paul Duffen, Chief Executive Officer of Newsplayer reiterated the
statement he made at their maiden full year results:

'I am delighted to report that we have delivered on our key strategic
objectives.  We have seen strong revenue growth from our first product
Newsplayer.com, acquired rights to over 2000 hours of additional content,
developed a leading technical facility for the digitisation of content and
launched our first educational product, Newsplayer Replay.  We are very well
positioned to benefit from the convergence of television and the Internet by
being a provider of high quality content and programming to an ever increasing
number of broadcasters across the platform spectrum.'

Enquiries:

Paul Duffen, Chief Executive      Tel: [phone]
Newsplayer Group plc
                                  
Gavin Partington/Harry Chathli    Tel: [phone]
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