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BW)(NV-MEDIA-&-ENTERTAINMENT)(MEDE)
Media and Entertainment.com Inc. Common
Shares are Planned to Trade On a New National
Bulletin Board Exchange -BBX-
Business Editors & Entertainment
Writers
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23,
2002--
BBX to be Operated by the Nasdaq Stock
Market Inc. Following the Phasing-Out
of the OTC Bulletin Board
Media and Entertainment.com Inc. (OTCBB:MEDE)
("Media and Entertainment.com Inc."),
today announced it has received notice
from The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. that
the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, in
operation since June 1990, will be phased-out
in 2003.
In its place will be launched, pending
expected approval by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC), a new higher
quality market, the Bulletin Board Exchange
(BBX).
This move was, according to the notice,
"motivated in part by the SEC rules
that govern exchanges." Principal
among the many anticipated improvements
over the OTCBB for newly listed companies
will be increasing liquidity in the market
for their securities and conferring the
recognition of trading on a listed market.
The BBX will have an electronic trading
system to allow order negotiation and
automatic execution.
This should be a major improvement over
the current OTCBB system, where market
participants must execute customer orders
using the telephone. The BBX's new system
should bring increased speed and reliability
to trade executions, as well as improve
the overall transparency of the marketplace.
Commenting on the notice, Roger Paglia,
Media and Entertainment.com Inc. president/CEO
stated: "Our very intuitive and aggressive
consulting firm MCS-Group has been monitoring
the development of this plan by the SEC
and Nasdaq through its extensive industry
contacts.
"We couldn't be more pleased to now
have enough information to judge the significance
of the benefits to Media and Entertainment.com
Inc. of a BBX listing. Based upon the
notice we received and contact with Nasdaq
we have satisfied ourselves of the tremendous
improvement the BBX should represent compared
to our current OTCBB listing."
Jon J. Jannotta, Media and Entertainment.com
Inc. executive vice president stated:
"Since we first anticipated a second
consecutive year of positive events and
growing our strategic partnerships for
Media and Entertainment.com Inc. in the
year 2001, we had been planning a move
to either Nasdaq Small Cap or the AMEX
while concurrently anticipating the contemplated
demise of the OTCBB and a new replacement
market system.
"We anticipate Media and Entertainment.com
Inc. meeting all other requirements for
listing on the BBX exchange. Since we
have been advised there will be no minimum
share price requirement for a BBX listing,
the BBX therefore affords Media and Entertainment.com
Inc. the advantage of trading on a full
electronic listed market without the need
for a reverse split in order to meet the
minimum share price requirement of the
other two exchanges."
Jannotta concluded by stating, "We
intend to file our application for the
BBX immediately upon receipt."
About Media and Entertainment.com
Media and Entertainment.com is a growth-oriented
multi-faceted entertainment and technology
company. The company provides a fully
integrated advertising, media management
and communications technology, and technology
products to the entertainment, motion
picture, music industry and global technology
market.
Media and Entertainment.com also offers
broadcasters, motion picture studios and
record labels the highest quality, multimedia
broadcast networks at extremely competitive
prices. The continued growth of its business
is expected to be facilitated through
further acquisitions of synergistic companies
and through the formation of strategic
partnerships and alliances.
About Management Consulting Services
Group
MCS provides a comprehensive suite of
consulting and project management services
enabling companies to make the transition
to the Bulletin Board Exchange (BBX).
Services include: corporate administration,
corporate imaging, strategic planning,
financial and operational consulting,
business development, business due diligence,
and compliance management.
With the exception of historical information,
the matters discussed in this news release
are forward-looking statements that involve
a number of risks and uncertainties. The
actual future benefits to Media and Entertainment.com
could differ from those statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute
to such differences include, but are not
limited to, no assurance that the SEC
will approve the BBX or that Media and
Entertainment.com will be successful in
attaining a listing on the BBX or the
BBX will offer any benefits to Media and
Enteratinment.com's shareholders.