EXHIBIT 1

            DELAWARE COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF JANA PARTNERS' RIGHT TO
               NOMINATE SEVEN DIRECTORS FOR BOARD OF CNET NETWORKS

NEW YORK,  March 13, 2008 - JANA Partners LLC ("JANA")  announced today that the
Delaware  Court of  Chancery  has upheld the rights of an  affiliate  of JANA to
nominate  seven  directors and propose other business at the 2008 Annual Meeting
of Stockholders of CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET). Following today's ruling,
JANA Managing Partner Barry Rosenstein issued the following statement:

     "This is the first step towards putting aside the legal mechanisms CNET has
     relied on to fight  our  effort to create  stockholder  value,  which  have
     included a poison pill, golden parachutes and an attempt to prevent us from
     proposing new directors, an attempt which the court today rejected. We look
     forward to moving on to a substantive  discussion of the need for change at
     CNET,  and why we believe our nominees have the  expertise  and  experience
     needed to reverse CNET's ongoing underperformance. We hope that the company
     will now put aside their efforts to thwart this debate with  technicalities
     and instead engage stockholders in a dialogue about the company's future."

On January 7, 2008 CNET claimed that the efforts of a JANA affiliate to nominate
two  directors  for  election  to the open  board  seats at CNET's  2008  Annual
Stockholders  Meeting  and to add  five  additional  nominees  to the  board  of
directors  were  "improper"  under its  bylaws and sought to deny its right as a
stockholder  to do so, after which this affiliate of JANA filed suit in Delaware
challenging the company's  interpretation  of its bylaws.  The Delaware Court of
Chancery today rejected CNET's arguments and affirmed JANA's  affiliate's  right
to have its  nominations  and  proposals  considered by  stockholders  at CNET's
Annual Meeting.

BACKGROUND

JANA has joined with Sandell Asset Management Corp.  ("Sandell"),  Paul Gardi of
Alex Interactive Media, Spark Capital and Velocity  Interactive Group in seeking
to elect two individuals to replace the board members who are up for re-election
at CNET's 2008  stockholders  meeting and to expand CNET's board by five members
and nominate individuals to fill those vacancies.

JANA PARTNERS LLC is a multi-billion  dollar investment  management firm founded
in 2001 by Barry Rosenstein. JANA has on numerous occasions, alone or with other
shareholders,  challenged  management  to focus on creating  shareholder  value,
including   with  respect  to  Kerr-McGee   Corporation,   Time  Warner,   Titan
International, TD Ameritrade and The Houston Exploration Company.

ALEX  INTERACTIVE  MEDIA, LLC ("AIM") is a private company focused on leveraging
its domain expertise in digital media and related industries.

SPARK  CAPITAL is a venture  capital  fund focused on building  businesses  that
transform the  distribution,  management and  monetization of media and content,
with experience in identifying and actively building market-leading companies in
sectors including infrastructure (Qtera,  RiverDelta,  Aether Systems,  Broadbus
and BigBand), networks (College Sports Television,  TVONE and XCOM) and services
(Akamai and the Platform). Spark Capital has over $600 million under management,
and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

VELOCITY INTERACTIVE GROUP, LLC is an investment firm that focuses on digital
media and communications. Velocity Interactive Group has offices in Palo Alto,
Los Angeles and New York.

SANDELL ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP., is a multi-billion dollar global investment
management firm, founded by Thomas E. Sandell, that focuses on global corporate
events and restructurings throughout North America, Continental Europe, the
United Kingdom, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific theatres. Sandell frequently
will take an "active involvement" in facilitating financial or organization
improvements accruing to the benefit of investors.

ALL  STOCKHOLDERS OF CNET ARE ADVISED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND
OTHER  DOCUMENTS  RELATED TO THE  SOLICITATION  OF PROXIES BY THE  INVESTORS AND
NOMINEES NAMED ABOVE (THE  "PARTICIPANTS") FROM THE STOCKHOLDERS OF CNET FOR USE
AT THE 2008 ANNUAL MEETING OF  STOCKHOLDERS  OF CNET WHEN THEY BECOME  AVAILABLE
BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.  WHEN COMPLETED, THE DEFINITIVE
PROXY  STATEMENT  AND FORM OF PROXY WILL BE MAILED TO  STOCKHOLDERS  OF CNET AND
WILL,  ALONG WITH OTHER  RELEVANT  DOCUMENTS,  BE  AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE
SEC'S WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV. IN ADDITION, THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROXY
SOLICITATION  WILL PROVIDE  COPIES OF THE  DEFINITIVE  PROXY  STATEMENT  WITHOUT
CHARGE UPON REQUEST.  INFORMATION  RELATING TO THE  PARTICIPANTS IS CONTAINED IN
EXHIBIT 2 TO THE SCHEDULE 14A FILED BY THE PARTICIPANTS  WITH THE SEC ON JANUARY
14, 2008.

CONTACTS:

Sard Verbinnen & Co
George Sard 212-687-8080
or
Paul Kranhold or Andrew Cole, 415-618-8750
or
JANA Partners LLC
Charles Penner, 212-692-7696

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