RNS Number:5091J
UBC Media Group PLC
02 April 2003

                              UBC Media Group PLC

                            ("UBC" or "the Company")

                             Director Shareholding

The Company was informed today that Simon Cole, the Chief Executive of UBC, had
today gifted 95,830 ordinary shares of UBC to the University of Manchester
Foundation for no consideration.

Simon Cole's beneficial interest in the issued ordinary share share capital of
the Company immediately following the gift of ordinary shares was reduced to
28,402,884 ordinary shares, representing approximately 19.31 per cent. of the
issued ordinary share capital of the Company.


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