Adelphia Introduces Adelphia Music for Its High-Speed Internet Customers

Adelphia Introduces Adelphia Music for Its High-Speed Internet Customers

New Premium Service Offers Access to Largest Online Subscription Music Library Available With More Than 1.5 Million Licensed Music Tracks and Music Videos

Company Also Introduces Additional New Service: Adelphia NetPak

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adelphia Communications Corporation a leading operator of cable systems in the United States, announced today the launch of Adelphia Music, a new online music service for its high-speed Internet customers. Offering access to more than 1.5 million music tracks, it is the first premium subscription service to be launched by Adelphia on the company's new high-speed Internet customer home page, www.adelphia.net.

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Adelphia Music is powered by MusicNet, the world's leading business-to-business digital music service provider. MusicNet offers the single largest available online subscription music library, including licensed tracks from all major record labels as well as thousands of independent labels. Adelphia Music is delivered to customers via MusicNet's state-of-the-art Performer(TM) music client, which delivers a robust music discovery experience that allows users to find music in a variety of ways.

The new service, priced at $7.95 per month, provides Adelphia's high-speed Internet customers with access to exclusive song titles, music videos, editorial play lists and other features, all of which are available in CD quality audio. Subscribers may stream or download as many songs as they want to play on their PCs. In addition, they have the option to purchase songs that they want to own permanently, to burn to CD or transfer to supported portable music players. The service is suitable for all ages, and provides parents with the ability to restrict access to titles containing explicit lyrics. Adelphia Music subscribers also receive Zinio digital magazine subscriptions to "PC Magazine" and "Sync."

"Adelphia Music enhances the value of our high-speed Internet service by making it affordable, safe and fun for our customers to find their favorite music or discover new music online," said Jeff Turner, Adelphia Director of HSI Product Marketing. "For about half the price of one CD per month, our customers will have access to tremendous music choice, with the flexibility to purchase only those songs that they want to own permanently."

Adelphia is also launching a second premium subscription option for its high-speed Internet customers, Adelphia NetPak. For an additional $9.95 a month, the service features some of the most popular subscription-only online content available. Adelphia NetPak includes access to:

* Gameday audio, condensed games, video highlights, and more from MLB.com * Online and printable greetings cards from American Greetings.com * A variety of award-winning educational games for children from Clever Island * Research tools from Encyclopedia Britannica * A vast collection of online games from Shockwave.com GameBlast * Videos clips from CNN.com featuring top CNN stories of the day * Local video weather forecasts and more from weather.com(R) -- the website of The Weather Channel

Synacor, a leading provider of private-label portal technology, is handling the integration of all premium content services for Adelphia.net. Synacor's software platform supports the integration of a variety of premium services accessible via a single user-ID, password and interface, along with the ability for Adelphia to add these services directly to the cable bill.

"Adelphia's leadership recognizes the role of great services in the delivery of a compelling broadband experience," said Ron Frankel, Synacor President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our alliance with Adelphia, like our relationship with 15 other major cable operators in the United States, speaks to our key objective to extend and deepen the relationship with consumers by delivering highly valued services and significant personalization."

Adelphia High-Speed Internet customers also enjoy many other benefits, including:

Adelphia.net * A newly designed customizable customer home page featuring worldwide news, weather, and sports, with streaming video clips from Associated Press * Access to a free online photo sharing service, online automobile resources, travel information, and career planning resources * Integrated access to the Google search engine * Quick links to a variety of customer service resources, including a real-time online chat feature that provides access to instantaneous online support

Web-based Email Accessible from any Internet-connected PC * Includes 70 MB of storage (100 MB with Premier level of service) * Includes 7 email accounts per household (10 with Premier level of service)

About Adelphia Communications

Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo., Adelphia Communications Corporation is the fifth-largest cable television company in the country. It serves customers in 31 states and Puerto Rico, and offers analog and digital video services, high-speed Internet access and other advanced services over its broadband networks.

About MusicNet

MusicNet is the world's leading business-to-business digital music service provider. The top U.S. and global consumer brands private label MusicNet's comprehensive suite of digital music services. MusicNet enables its partners to offer their customers a fully customized experience, including the ability to buy music downloads and subscriptions, choose from more than 1.5 million tracks (the industry's largest catalog of licensed music), explore engaging editorial programming and enjoy an easy-to-use interface. Headquartered in New York, MusicNet is wholly-owned by Baker Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with $1.5 billion under management. For more information, please visit www.musicnet.com.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. All statements regarding the Company's and its subsidiaries' and affiliates' expected future financial position, results of operations, cash flows, process for sale of the Company, restructuring and financing plans, expected emergence from bankruptcy, business strategy, budgets, projected costs, capital expenditures, network upgrades, products and services, competitive positions, growth opportunities, plans and objectives of management for future operations, as well as statements that include words such as "anticipate," "if," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "could," "should," "will," and other similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain, and readers must recognize that actual results may differ materially from the Company's expectations. The Company does not undertake a duty to update such forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include those discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003 and the Company's pending bankruptcy proceeding and its ongoing sale process, results of litigation against the Company and government investigations of the Company, the effects of government regulation including the actions of local cable franchising authorities, the availability of financing, actions of the Company's competitors, results and impacts of the process to sell the Company or its assets, pricing and availability of programming, equipment, supplies, and other inputs, the Company's ability to upgrade its network, technological developments, and changes in general economic conditions. Many of these factors are outside of the Company's control.

For more information, contact:

Erica Stull 303-268-6502 erica.stull@adelphia.com

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CONTACT: Erica Stull of Adelphia Communications Corporation, +1-303-268-6502, erica.stull@adelphia.com

Web site: http://www.musicnet.com/

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