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Youthline USA Partners with Entertainment Boulevard; Partnership Will Bring Edu-tainment to the Web
Updated 6:54 PM ET December 20, 1999
LAKEWOOD, N.J., Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Youthline USA, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: YLNE) (http://www.youthline-usa.com), the leading newspaper for kids, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive strategic alliance with Entertainment Boulevard, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EBLD) (http://www.entertainmentblvd.com), host of entertainment-oriented streaming content programming.
Entertainment Boulevard will produce and host the Youthline-USA.com website, which will be relaunched in early 2000. The new site will feature educational streaming video content, as well as music and entertainment videos from Entertainment Boulevard's vast library. The YOUTHLINE-USA website will complement the rapidly growing newspaper and serve as a comprehensive resource for educators, parents, and children. Schools and individuals will have the opportunity to subscribe to the new service while a free, less comprehensive version of the site will also be available. The subscribers' site will feature daily news updates with accompanying activities, an interactive stock market game, and limited email for students.
"One of our main goals is to introduce young people to educational material in a fun and exciting way. This partnership with Entertainment Boulevard will combine their expertise in developing high quality streaming video content with Youthline USA's superlative educational content to offer students a cutting-edge educational site on the Internet," said Saki Dodelson, President of Youthline USA.
"We're happy to be bringing Youthline USA's educational content to the Web. Creating a fun and exciting edu-tainment site that features our streaming video technology opens up a vast new area of opportunity for us," said Stephen Brown, CEO of Entertainment Boulevard. "This alliance gives us the ability to enhance the Internet's available content in the growing educational market."
Saki Dodelson continued, "This agreement has positioned us as the leader in Internet educational solutions. Employing Entertainment Boulevard's expertise has enabled us to build and launch a subscription-based service for schools. We have received excellent responses from the schools we have contacted and we believe that many schools will use our service to prepare their students for their high tech futures. This should result in an increase in revenues to the company in the next year."
About YOUTHLINE USA, Inc.
YOUTHLINE USA provides value-added educational and entertainment multimedia products and services to meet the school, library, and home markets' needs. The company is currently building a unique Internet service that guarantees children a safe and secure means to surf the web, while providing teachers, librarians, and parents with productive, Internet-based, educational services.
For the past two years, the core product offering of YOUTHLINE USA has been its weekly newspaper geared for children ages 8 to 13. The newspaper fosters reading, writing, and creative thinking by presenting the news in an age-appropriate and age-sensitive manner. Each issue consists of sixteen full-color pages of interesting and timely articles on a variety of topics, including world and national news, sports, politics, economics, science, health, and computers -- always in an eye- and mind-catching manner. By covering both national and international news, the YOUTHLINE USA newspaper connects children across the nation, while simultaneously introducing them to different cultures around the world.
Among YOUTHLINE USA's recent acquisitions are: Ingenius, a multi-media programming and news archive with a database consisting of 1,560 news stories; and LessonStop (http://www.lessonstop.org), a Website for innovative K-12 teachers to seek, share, and discuss ideas for classroom activities. LessonStop develops Internet-based lesson plans on topics such as creative writing, studies in world cultures, science, and mathematics -- all for the entire K-12 range.
About Entertainment Boulevard
Entertainment Boulevard, Inc., entertainmentblvd.com is one of the leading providers of streaming entertainment-related media on the Internet. Among the firm's award-winning Web sites is one of the most comprehensive interactive music video channels on the Web. Entertainment Boulevard's music site has rapidly become a premier music destination site on the Internet. The firm's mandate of Internet global expansion includes launching current and future Web sites under the umbrella of EntertainmentBlvd.com. Based in Los Angeles, Entertainment Boulevard continues to aggressively develop and implement strategic alliances with key commerce and entertainment companies, broadening its presence worldwide.
YOUTHLINE USA is a registered trademark of YOUTHLINE USA, Inc.
Statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: with the exception of the historical information contained in this release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters herein described, including but not limited to product development and acceptance, manufacturing, competition, regulatory and/or other factors, which are outside the control of the Company.
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