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SPEED Channel to Premiere its First Online Webisode to RacingJunk.com's Community of Racers

NORTH ADAMS, Mass.--March 28, 2005--PEE Channel joins with RacingJunk.com, the performance racing industry's leading classified ad portal, in announcing the exclusive web cast of PEE Channel's upcoming new series, "Pinks."

This marks PEE Channel's online debut of a television series episode, and a first for the highly trafficked racing portal. PEE Channel is partnering with RacingJunk's community of users to showcase the new reality based show online. The March 29 (8 p.m. ET) online release will be four full months in advance of its July 2005 PEE Channel debut.

Tuesday, March 29 RacingJunk.com will unveil the "webisode" or shortened version of the show's premiere episode of "Pinks," available for viewing on-demand. No registration will be required to view the episode.

The PINKS reality show pits drag racers against each other with the stakes put up by the contestants themselves, the titles to their cars (the pink slips). The show puts the REAL back in reality shows; losers actually lose their cars. PINKS will match cars with others in the same class and the contestants will negotiate handicaps. After the first heat contestants renegotiate adjusting for the cars' speed variable.

"We feel that RacingJunk.com is the perfect online venue for us to premier the show" said Rich Christensen, the show's creator. "We see how powerful the combination of debuting a show online and creating a following for your television show can be. This is the wave of the future and with PEE Channel and RacingJunk.com combining to do this; we feel that our show will be extremely successful when launched in July."

"We are excited to work with PEE Channel and Rich Christensen the show's creator on this innovative effort to debut "Pinks" to our legions of users," said Osmin F. Alvarez, CEO of RacingJunk.com. "This debut shows the potential of a site like ours to work with television shows and other media not only creating a buzz, but to get fans involved interactively discussing the show -- as millions of users spread the word through our tightly connected community of racers and fans." To view the first episode of "Pinks", no registration is required. RacingJunk.com users and others simply need go to http://pinks.racingjunk.com on Tuesday, March 29 at 8 p.m. (ET). The webisode will be available for viewing on-demand for approximately one month.

"The PINKS concept is daring, edgy and of-the-moment, so the marketing and recruiting plan for the show has been carefully designed to reflect that," said Robert Ecker, PEE Channel VP of Programming. "With this in mind, the notion of previewing the show on the web seemed pretty organic. Our goal here is to reach out to prospective participants by letting them see exactly how intense the drama can be, and the reason it is so intense is because the stakes are so high. Certainly not everyone will want to risk losing their prized vehicle; we believe that those who might can be found on dedicated websites like RacingJunk.com."

In addition to viewing "Pinks" on RacingJunk.com, fans of the show will have an opportunity to interact in a unique online environment about the show with forums, "Pinks" blogs, and a unique ability to sign up to possibly participate in the next filming of the show in Orlando, FL on May 26, 2005-29. There will be links to pee Channel and Pinks.tv where the official show site is located.

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