WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Warren Communications News and The Janus Group have created a joint venture to develop, promote and sell MediaPrints, an exclusive set of cable system boundaries for use in mapping software. MediaPrints (http://www.mediaprints.com) incorporates service area boundaries and key data for over 10,000 cable systems in the United States. The joint venture, called Warren-Janus Ventures, LLC, creates a powerful alliance between Warren, a leading provider of news and data in the fields of telecommunications, broadcasting and consumer electronics, and Janus, experts in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and specialists in sophisticated business decision-support methodology.

MediaPrints is a powerful tool, unequaled for visualizing cable and broadcast TV coverage. Users of MediaPrints' digital information can create individually tailored reports and topographic and thematic maps that can be easily used for:

• Market Research
• Demographic Analysis
• Market Segmentation
• Competitive Analysis

MediaPrints can be customized to aggregate and view:

• Cable systems with the highest sales potential
• Cable modem high-speed Internet service availability
• Cable coverage areas by MSO
• Block group demographics, buying trends and business locations at the cable system level

MediaPrints also offers data-only options. For example, with MediaPrints' census block group and zip code translation tables, you can correlate customer databases with cable system providers. Or you can create web sites at which viewers can locate and contact their local cable system operators. MediaPrints makes these and other business resources possible by including each cable system's TV market, primary owner, subscriber counts, channel capacity, two-way capability, miles of plant (coax and fiber), high- speed Internet access service, and much more.

MediaPrints works with desktop mapping software such as ArcView and MapInfo.

Warren-Janus Ventures brings together the expertise of two companies with extensive experience in systems design, database marketing and publishing. MediaPrints is the fruit of their collaboration-a unique problem-solving tool for clients in the competitive telecommunications, broadcast and cable television industries.

Founded in 1945, Warren Communications News, Inc., is the leading provider of news and data on telecommunications, broadcasting, consumer electronics and related industries. In addition to the industry-standard 5,000-page Television & Cable Factbook, the company publishes eighteen subscription news services, including the award-winning Communications Daily, and other specialized directories, corporate profiles and market studies. Warren also offers custom market research services via its extensive cable system and TV station databases.

The Janus Group blends expertise in management, marketing and technology to devise and implement customized solutions for business improvements. Janus specializes in business decision support systems and utilizes Geographical Information System (GIS) tools to provide customers with custom approaches to data analysis, systems administration, database marketing and a variety of other functions, which can be used to solve complex marketing and administrative problems.

For additional information on MediaPrints, please contact:

Lynn Levine
Warren-Janus Ventures, LLC
2115 Ward Ct. NW
Washington, DC 20037
(800) 771-9202, Ext. 264
llevine@warren-news.com

www.mediaprints.com