Hot Sites Team Up to Bring National Internship Listings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      
March 8, 2000         
Contact:
Corrie Anderson, 704.335.1350   
Ginger Smith, 704.329.3728

123charlotte.com and nbc6.com Launch
National Internship Website: 123intern.com

Charlotte, NC – Say goodbye to stereotypes of college students as unmotivated slackers with dirty jeans and stacks of empty pizza boxes. Todays students know that a degree alone doesnt always cut it in the workplace, and they have embraced a time-honored tradition – the internship.

Good internships arent always easy to find, which is why 123charlotte.com (www.123charlotte.com) and nbc6.com (www.nbc6.com) have joined forces to create 123intern.com (www.123intern.com), the first site of its kind in the Carolinas. 123intern.com houses a national database of college internships with all the convenience and personalization of 123charlotte.com.

123intern.com has formed relationships with North Carolina schools such as NC State and UNC – Charlotte, and is forming similar relationships with other schools nationwide. 123intern.com is working with these schools to ensure that the needs of students and their academic institutions are being met.

123intern.com will change the way that students find internships," says Brian K. Parsley, President and CEO of 123hire.com, the company that created 123charlotte.com and 123intern.com. As our national network of job sites continues to grow, it will increase our number of high quality internships as well. North Carolina is a great place to start, because it is home to so many great institutions of higher learning."

Todays college students demand fast, concise delivery of information, and nbc6.com has met that need by providing online news," says Ginger Smith, Manager of New Media for nbc6.com. Now we can help them in a new way – by giving them quick, easy access to quality internships."

The launch of 123intern.com coincides with the launch of 123raleigh.com, a job site like 123charlotte.com, that serves the Triangle. 123raleigh.com is headquartered on the NC State Centennial Campus, providing their staff with continuous exposure to college students and an ongoing relationship with the school.

About 123intern.com
Launched March 1, 123intern.com is a national database of internships created by 123hire.com (www.123hire.com). The mission of 123intern.com is to match worthy students with quality internship opportunities. 123intern.com brings colleges and universities, students and employers together in an online community designed to facilitate the internship process. The parent company, 123hire.com (www.123hire.com), has a national network of sites including 123charlotte.com (www.123charlotte.com) and 123raleigh.com (www.123raleigh.com).

About nbc6.com
nbc6.com (www.nbc6.com) went live on July 16, 1999 and continues to grow in popularity and scope. The site offers many exclusive features, such as customization, streaming news and video, ENEWSnotification (customized news via email) and sports tracking. nbc6.com has formed strategic partnerships with major organizations like Intervu, CitySearch, ENEWSnotifier and 123charlotte.com to provide essential news and information to users.

NBC6 / WCNC-TV is the NBC affiliate in Charlotte, owned by Belo Corp. Belo is one of the nations largest media companies with a diversified group of television broadcasting, newspaper publishing, cable news network and electronic media assets. The Company's Television Group currently reaches 14 percent of U.S. television households, including four stations in the top 17 television markets: WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas/Fort Worth; KHOU-TV (CBS) in Houston; KING-TV (NBC) in Seattle/Tacoma; and KTVK (IND) in Phoenix. Belo has seven stations in the top 30 markets, 11 stations in the top 50 markets, and network affiliation as follows: four ABC affiliates, six CBS affiliates, four NBC affiliates, one independent station and one FOX affiliate. In addition, the Company manages four television stations through local marketing agreements, owns three local or regional cable news channels and owns Belo Productions, Inc.
   
Belos Publishing Division is headed by The Dallas Morning News (dallasnews.com), which has the countrys eighth largest Sunday circulation and ninth largest daily circulation, and the Providence Journal (projo.com), the leading newspaper in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Belo also owns The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California; the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Kentucky; The Eagle in Bryan-College Station, Texas; the Arlington Morning News in Arlington, Texas; and The Gleaner in Henderson, Kentucky.

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