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2012 BNP PARIBAS OPEN TO AIR ON ABC, ESPN2,
TENNIS CHANNEL, ESPN3 AND TENNISTV.COM

More Than 350 Hours Of BNP Paribas Open Coverage Available To Fans

INDIAN WELLS, Calif., March 1, 2012 – Coverage of the 2012 BNP Paribas
Open, the largest ATP World Tour and WTA combined two-week event in
the world to be held March 5-18, 2012 at the Indian Wells Tennis
Garden, will air on ABC, ESPN2, Tennis Channel, ESPN3 and TennisTV.com
it was announced today by Steve Simon, tournament director.

Tennis Channel will kick off live coverage on Saturday, March 10 and
continue broadcasting through Friday March 16. The first six days
(March 10-15) will feature eight to 12 hours a day of live BNP Paribas
Open action on the network beginning at 11:00 a.m. PT. The
commentators and reporters for Tennis Channel will be Justin
Gimelstob, Lindsay Davenport, Brett Haber, and Ashley Fisher.

On Friday, March 16, Tennis Channel and ESPN2 will split the
eight-hour live broadcast starting again at 11 a.m. PT. The coverage
will include the men’s singles quarterfinals as well as the women’s
singles semifinals. On Saturday March 17, Tennis Channel will
broadcast the ATP World Tour doubles final live. It will air following
the women’s doubles final.

Final weekend coverage singles coverage on ABC will include both men’s
semifinals back-to-back on Saturday, March 17, and men’s and women’s
championship matches on Sunday, March 18. Coverage will begin at 11:00
a.m. PT both days. Chris Fowler, Darren Cahill, Mary Joe Fernandez and
Pam Shriver will call the action on ESPN2 and ABC.

In addition to the television broadcasts, fans can catch more than 60
hours of live streaming action on ESPN3 from Saturday, March 10
through Friday, March 16. The website will also feature replays of the
semifinals and finals matches after they have aired on ABC. The
telecasts are also available through WatchESPN online at WatchESPN.com
and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app.

Fans can also watch live streaming matches at BNP Paribas Open LIVE
(www.bnpparibasopen.com). Powered by TennisTV.com, the official live
streaming website of the ATP World Tour and WTA, BNP Paribas Open LIVE
will show more than 60 matches from Indian Wells, including men’s and
women’s singles quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals. Matches will be
streamed live online and on mobile devices, through TennisTV’s iPad,
iPhone and Android Apps. Fans who sign up for BNP Paribas Open LIVE
can also see tennis year round, with access to up to 90 ATP World Tour
and WTA tournaments (territorial restrictions may apply).

Additionally, Tennis Channel will provide more than 125 hours of
encore coverage of the tournament including encore broadcasts of the
men’s and women’s singles semifinals and finals and both doubles
finals on Monday, March 19.

For more information, visit www.bnpparibasopen.com.

About the BNP Paribas Open
The BNP Paribas Open is the largest ATP World Tour and WTA combined
two-week event in the world, offers more than $11,000,000 in prize
money, and is the only event to provide the Hawkeye line challenge
system on all match courts. In 2011, more than 350,000 people attended
the event. Visit www.bnpparibasopen.com to purchase tickets online and
view the calendar of events, listing of main draw singles players,
schedule of matches and more. Indian Wells Tennis Garden Box Office,
800-999-1585 or 760-200-8000, 78-200 Miles Avenue, Indian Wells, CA,
92210.

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the best rated banks in the
world*. The Group has a presence in more than 80 countries and more
than 200,000 employees, including more than 160,000 in Europe. It
ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment
Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has
four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP
Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP
Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across the
Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the western
part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and
Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions
in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and
fast-growing businesses in Asia. *Rated AA- by Standard & Poor's.

About BNP Paribas and Tennis

Long-standing partner to the sport of tennis since 1973, BNP Paribas
is actively involved in the game at both local and international
level, and in club, schools and social tennis as well as professional
events. BNP Paribas has gradually become the number one sponsor in
world tennis: official sponsor of Roland Garros since 1973 and sponsor
of five ATP Masters 1000 events - the BNP Paribas Masters since 1986,
Monte Carlo Masters since 2005, Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome
since 2006, BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells since 2009 and the
Shanghai Masters since 2010. The Group is also title sponsor of the
Davis Cup by BNP Paribas since 2001 and the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas
since 2005, as well as being actively involved in many other
international competitions including the Bank of the West Classic in
California, the Grand Prix Hassan II in Casablanca, the Open 13 in
Marseille and the BNP Paribas Showdown in New York. BNP Paribas is also an official partner of International Wheelchair Tennis, such as the “BNP ParibasWorld Team Cup”. Through its support for more than 20 national tennis
associations, 2000 clubs, 550 amateur tournaments, plus schools and
social programmes around the world, BNP Paribas helps to promote
tennis and encourage widespread participation in the game. The Group's commitment to social values is reflected in the sports sponsorships it has undertaken in numerous projects, including Yannick Noah's ‘Fête le Mur’ Association and the tennis Téléthon in France, the Oberer Tennis Camp in Switzerland and the BNP Paribas ‘Taste of Tennis’ in the United States. As part of its creative sports sponsorship policy, BNP Paribas is launching a website “wearetennis.com” entirely dedicated to tennis news. The Group’s new sponsorship slogan ‘We are tennis’ underlines the fact that BNP Paribas promotes tennis for all, at all
levels.
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