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ATI NETWORKS Announces Plans to Launch YouthNetworks.com

MADISON, Wis., June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- ATI Networks (ATIW) today announced plans to launch YouthNetworks.com, designed to become the leading network for teenagers to meet and interact. YouthNetworks.com is a new web destination created for teens, with much of the content to be provided by teens. It will enable high school students from around the country to upload their own digital video content, as well as share the latest news and information on entertainment, schools, music, shopping, games, movies, health, beauty, relationships, jobs, travel, and other common interests. Live audio-video streams from media events of interest to teens are scheduled to be webcast on the YouthNetworks.com website beginning this summer. The website will utilize the latest streaming video technology from Microsoft (MSFT) for its live webcast events.

Beginning this fall, the YouthNews segment will feature daily news presented by a different school, with the content written, directed, and produced by the featured school's students. The site will also feature free e-mail, chat rooms, a weekly newsletter, information about online college grant applications, and other educational information. All YouthNetworks site content will be updated and archived daily.

YouthNetworks.com will provide a common meeting ground for over 25 million students in 38,000 high schools around the country. The site is planning to feature live video webcast coverage of the National Youth Summit June 21-25 in Orlando, Florida. A live interview with Howie D of the Backstreet Boys is planned for June 25, to be available for viewing in the YouthNews section of the website. Site visitors will be able to view the live video broadcast using Microsoft's Windows Media Player or the RealNetworks (RNWK) REALPlayer.

ATI Networks is building a global e-business by using its state of the art, online technologies to create engaging Web sites. The company creates common-interest website communities that enable people to download and stream digital audio and video media, and carry on B2B and e-commerce.

For more information, you may view the developing site by visiting http://www.youthnetworks.com

SOURCE: ATI Networks