Palm Beachers Let Their Fingers Do The Talking @ GoPBI.com

    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Residents of the Palm
Beaches can now discuss local issues and get 24-hour news, weather and sports
at their fingertips as Cox Interactive Media (CIM) launches a comprehensive
community based Internet site PalmBeachInteractive.com.  It can be found at
http://www.GoPBI.com.
    GoPBI.com is a dynamic, new community news resource cum interactive town
hall that uses the latest in Internet technology.  No other Internet site
serving the Palm Beaches gets the latest news to desktops faster!  Whether
it's GoPBI.com News 12 Doppler Radar to see if the rain will wash out a quick
nine holes after work, or the latest on a personal stock portfolio, GoPBI.com
has all the local answers.
    Covering Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties, GoPBI.com has a
locally based team of dedicated newshounds that reports the news and provides
the basis for community interaction.  It's a place to express and share views.
Other media partners include the "Palm Beach Daily News" and the "Florida
Pennysaver."  The site also benefits from the local expertise of media partner
"The Palm Beach Post," enabling GoPBI.com to provide the most comprehensive
news and sports service available.
    All areas provide ways to personalize the content or interact in a variety
of ways.  For instance, users don't have to be a financial whiz kid to get the
most from GoPBI.com's unique interactive financial feature -- Your Money.  A
customized portfolio can be set up by typing in a stock symbol, the quantity
of stock they own and the purchase price, and then the site automatically
calculates the stock's daily gain or loss.  Another Your Money feature
provides users with more than 100 formulas to help them solve everyday
business questions, like whether they should borrow money, rent or buy a home,
refinance or stay with their current mortgage.  GoPBI.com also offers its
users the ability to respond to columnists from "The Palm Beach Post" -- Your
Opinion.  This highly interactive feature allows Palm Beach residents to chat
online with journalists about issues affecting their communities.
    "GoPBI.com offers valuable, local and frequently refreshed news, sports
and entertainment updates throughout the day," said Dan Shorter, Palm Beach
studio manager.  "Children can use the archives for their homework or parents
can search for the perfect family activity for the weekend."
    "GoPBI.com is an excellent opportunity for our readers to get more
information on a specific subject that fascinates them," said Edward Sears,
editor of "The Palm Beach Post."  "There is more in-depth coverage that you
can place on an Internet site than can ever be printed in a daily newspaper."
    GoPBI.com's eight content channels let Internet users find up-to-the-
minute weather forecasts (Sun, Surf, Weather), local, national and
international news (Your News) and the latest top 20 stories from 56 local
area communities (Your Town) as well as all the latest sports (Sports Town),
entertainment (Around Town) and financial (Your Money) news and information.
    With regular site features including chat rooms and local discussion
forums (Your Opinion) and the latest hotel rates and flight information (Out
of Town), GoPBI.com represents the new generation of Internet sites that
involve local people instantaneously.
    Note:  Cox Interactive Media, headquartered in Atlanta, is a newly formed
subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc.  PalmBeachInteractive.com joins other
local city sites such as AccessAtlanta (http://www.accessatlanta.com), Austin360
(http://www.austin360.com), Bayinsider.com in San Francisco (http://www.bayinsider.com),
GoCarolinas.com in Charlotte (http://www.gocarolinas.com), InsideCentralFlorida.com
in Orlando (http://www.insidecentralflorida.com), and SoFla.com for Miami and the
South Beach area (http://www.sofla.com).  These city sites provide users specific
information unique to their communities as well as opportunities for online
interaction with other users.
    Specialty sites like Storm97 (http://www.storm97.com), FASTBALL.com
(http://www.fastball.com) and Y'all (http://www.yall.com) have also been established to
focus on specific topics that have regional or national appeal.  Through the
advent of studios like the one in South Florida, CIM (http://www.cimedia.com) will
continue to provide vital interactive links between local, national and
worldwide communities.  By the end of 1997, there will be 25 studios opened by
CIM in metropolitan areas across the country.
    A leading media company, Cox Enterprises, Inc., includes Cox Newspapers,
Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing), Cox Broadcasting,
Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research, publicly traded Cox
Radio, Inc. (NYSE: CXR)) and publicly traded Cox Communications, Inc.
(NYSE: COX) (cable distribution, programming, broadband communications) in
addition to Cox Interactive Media.  The company is also the world's largest
operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions, providing financial
services, government auctions, online services and price guides.

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