Corporate Profile

About Hollywood Media Corp. and Hollywood.com

Overview

HOLLYWOOD MEDIA CORP. (Nasdaq: HOLL) owns and operates the Hollywood.com web site and a number of business units focused on the entertainment and media industries.  Hollywood Media's businesses include its Broadway Ticketing division, its Ad Sales division, and other businesses including Hollywood.com Television, a free VOD cable TV network, an intellectual property business, and Hollywood Media's minority interest in MovieTickets.com.  Hollywood Media derives a diverse stream of revenues these businesses, including revenue from ticket sales for live theater on Broadway and London’s West End, revenues from advertising, and book development license fees and royalties. These businesses are further described below, and additional information about Hollywood Media and its businesses is provided in Hollywood Media's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Broadway Ticketing Division

Hollywood Media’s Broadway Ticketing division is comprised of Broadway.com, 1-800-BROADWAY, Theatre Direct International (“TDI”) and U.K.-based Theatre.com. These services sell live theater tickets and related products and services. Broadway tickets are sold online through our Broadway.com website and by telephone through our 1-800-BROADWAY number. The Broadway Ticketing division provides groups and individuals with access to theater tickets and knowledgeable service, covering shows on Broadway, off-Broadway and in London’s West End theatre district. The Broadway.com web site includes video and photo coverage of shows and events, show reviews, celebrity interviews and theater columns, as well as show information pages, including casting, synopses and venue information.

Ad Sales Division

Hollywood Media’s Ad Sales Division includes Hollywood.com and CinemasOnline. Hollywood.com, a premier online entertainment destination, generates revenue by selling advertising on its website, and also receives commission revenue for advertising sold by the Hollywood.com ad sales team on MovieTickets.com. Hollywood.com features in-depth movie information, including movie previews, descriptions and reviews, movie showtimes listings, entertainment news, celebrity fan sites, celebrity photo galleries and an extensive multimedia library. Hollywood.com’s features also include audio podcasts and blogging. CinemasOnline, a group of companies based in the U.K., maintains websites for cinemas and live theatres in the U.K. in exchange for the right to sell advertising on such websites. CinemasOnline also provides marketing services including advertising sales on plasma screens placed in various venues throughout the U.K. and Ireland, such as hotels, car dealerships, cinemas and live theatres.  

Cable TV

Hollywood Media’s Cable TV Division includes Hollywood.com Television (“HTV”) and Broadway.com Television (“BTV”) which are Free-VOD (FVOD) channels that offer interactive entertainment and information with on-demand video content, previews, reviews, behind the scenes footage, interviews and coverage of entertainment industry events to cable company subscribers. HTV is carried on certain cable TV systems including Cablevision Systems, Cox Communications, Comcast, Insight Communications, Mediacom, Charter and Bresnan. BTV is distributed by Cablevision on its New York area systems.

Intellectual Properties Business

Our Intellectual Properties division includes a book development and book licensing business owned and operated by our 51% owned subsidiary, Tekno Books, which develops and executes book projects, frequently with best-selling authors. Tekno Books has worked with over 60 New York Times best-selling authors, including Isaac Asimov, Tom Clancy, Tony Hillerman, John Jakes, Jonathan Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Robert Ludlum, Nora Roberts and Scott Turow. Hollywood Media is also a 50% partner in NetCo Partners, a partnership that owns Tom Clancy’s NetForce. Hollywood Media also owns directly additional intellectual property created for it by various best-selling authors such as Mickey Spillane, Anne McCaffrey and others.

MovieTickets.com, Inc.

MovieTickets.com, Inc. is one of the two leading destinations for the purchase of movie tickets through the Internet.  MovieTickets.com is an online ticketing service owned by a joint venture formed by Hollywood Media and several major movie exhibitor chains. Hollywood Media currently owns 26.2% of the equity of MovieTickets.com. The MovieTickets.com website allows users to purchase movie tickets and retrieve them at “will call” windows or kiosks at theaters and, for theaters with the capability for users to print tickets out at their home or office. MovieTickets.com generates revenues from service fees charged to users for the purchase of tickets and the sale of advertising.

Note on Forward-Looking Statements

This website may contain, in addition to historical information, certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws with respect to Hollywood Media Corp. and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates. Forward-looking statements are based on management's expectations that involve risks and uncertainties that may result in such expectations not being realized, and may cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, forward-looking statements are typically phrased using words such as "may," "will," "should," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "could," "estimate," "pro forma" or "continue" or the negative variations thereof or similar expressions or comparable terminology. Some of the potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the need to manage our growth and integrate new businesses, our ability to realize anticipated revenues, cost efficiencies and sources of capital, the impact of potential future dispositions or other strategic transactions by Hollywood Media, our ability to develop and maintain strategic relationships, our ability to compete with other media, data and internet companies, technology risks, the volatility of our stock price, and other risks and factors described in Hollywood Media Corp.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including our Form 10-K for 2006. Because these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, we caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to Hollywood Media Corp. or persons acting on its behalf are qualified by these cautionary statements.

Investor Relations Contacts for Hollywood Media Corp.

Investor Relations Department
Hollywood Media Corp.
2255 Glades Rd.
Suite 219A
Boca Raton, FL  33431
Attn:  L. Melheim
561-998-8000
ir@boca.hollywood.com