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OpenTV Appoints Three Senior Level Executives

San Francisco, Calif./October 22, 2003/Satnews/  OpenTV (NASDAQ and Euronext Amsterdam: OPTV), today announced the appointment of two new senior executives and the appointment of Mark H. Allen to a newly created position.

Richard Hornstein will join the Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Craig Waggy, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Liberty Broadband Interactive Television ("LBIT"), had served as OpenTV's CFO over the last year as OpenTV acquired three companies. Mr. Waggy will remain with LBIT and will continue to assist and support OpenTV as he transitions his former responsibilities to Mr. Hornstein.

Scott Wornow will join the Company as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Mark H. Allen, who had been serving as interim General Counsel, has been appointed to the newly created position of Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development.

Richard Hornstein, a software industry veteran, comes to OpenTV from Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm focused in the technology sector. Mr. Hornstein was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Golden Gate Capital, where he was responsible for the integration and restructuring of key companies acquired by Golden Gate. Before joining Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Hornstein was Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel at Resonate, Inc. (a publicly-traded software company) and at Believe, Inc. (a privately-held 3-D hardware and software development company).

Prior to that, Mr. Hornstein was General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Taxation at Network Associates, Inc. (a publicly-traded software company). In addition, Mr. Hornstein previously worked with the Big 5 firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG for 8 years.

Mr. Hornstein has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from Queens College. He also holds a law degree from Duke University School of Law and a Masters of Law degree in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Scott Wornow has an extensive and varied legal background, with experience in sophisticated corporate finance and governance matters; mergers, acquisitions and strategic ventures, both domestically and internationally; as well as securities laws, intellectual property; litigation and other commercial matters.

Prior to joining OpenTV, Mr. Wornow was General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of OmniSky Corporation, a publicly traded wireless data company offering proprietary wireless applications, services and software. Before that, Mr. Wornow was a Partner with the international law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, resident in the firm's New York office. While with Paul, Hastings, Mr. Wornow represented Fortune 50 companies and international investment banking clients and was involved in more than $20 billion of corporate financings and mergers and acquisitions activities. Mr. Wornow's practice focused principally in the technology, telecommunications and emerging growth sectors.

Mr. Wornow has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Virginia. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Masters degree in Law from Cambridge University. He received his law degree from the Harvard Law School.

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