Wednesday, August 2nd 2006

FMQB And Mediabase Form Strategic Alliance

Contact: Amir Forester
818-461-5404

Mediabase, the airplay monitoring and research division of Premiere Radio Networks, and FMQB (Friday Morning Quarterback), the number one Internet and hard copy source for radio and music industry professionals, announced today that the two companies have formed a strategic alliance. In this new relationship both companies will utilize each other's resources as co-branding partners to deliver existing and new product services to the marketplace.

FMQB CEO Fred Deane remarked, "FMQB and Mediabase are premium brands in our industry with the common goal of super serving our client bases with credibility and integrity. FMQB is eager to expand our content mix across all of our platforms in helping provide a leadership role for the delivery of critical data executed and supplied by Mediabase."

"Mediabase is pleased to announce our association with FMQB," commented Mediabase president and Premiere Radio Networks EVP, Rich Meyer. "With well over a quarter century of service to radio, Fred and his team are highly motivated to bring accurate, credible information to the radio and record communities. Those common threads make this deal a real no-brainer."

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About FMQB
FMQB was founded in 1968 by Owner/Publisher/Radio-TV personality Kal Rudman with the purpose of connecting the radio and music industries in real terms about real information. The company has flourished for nearly four decades and is consistently recognized as a leader and innovator in its field. FMQB has integrated its dynamic new media advertising and electronic services, industry-leading Web site and nationally produced radio specials with its core publication business, maintaining its trend-setting role in the ever-changing business in which it thrives.

About Mediabase
In addition to providing vital airplay information to nearly 1,700 affiliate radio stations and every major broadcast group, Mediabase 24/7, a division of Premiere Radio Networks, provides research to every major record label in the North America. Mediabase monitors more than 1,800 radio stations in 175 U.S. and Canadian markets. Mediabase introduced and innovated the concept of monitored airplay in 1987.