AOL to Launch New Video Portal

DULLES, July 31: AOL is launching a new video portal
featuring more than 45 channels with content from, among others, A&E
Television Networks, MTV Networks, Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros.
Entertainment, as well as user-generated videos.

AOL will preview a beta version of the new portal later this
week at www.aolvideo.com. Content will be
accessible by video search, a browse function or by using an interactive
programming guide. Streaming content will be available for free, but users will
also be able to purchase and download videos for broadcasting on portable
devices and PCs.

"AOL has long been a leader in online video and with
the new AOL Video portal we have created the best and easiest place online for
anyone on the Web to find, watch and share the videos they're looking
for," said Kevin Conroy, the EVP of AOL. "From originally produced
and licensed programming to branded online video-on-demand channels to
user-created videos that people create, upload and share on the Web themselves,
AOL Video is truly the first one-stop source that brings the best videos on the
Web together in one place and gives consumers more choice. If a video is out
there, you'll find it here on AOL Video.com."

Among the initial content partners are A&E Television
Networks, Endemol USA, LIME, MTV Networks, National Lampoon, SORPRESA!, TBS,
TNT, Warner Bros. Entertainment and WNBA, among others. Among the titles that
will be available for download are A&E’s Inked and Criss Angel Mindfreak; documentaries from The History Channel; Fear
Factor South Africa
and Anything
for Love
from Endemol USA; Comedy Central’s
Chappelle’s Show; Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob
SquarePants
and Zoey 101; The N’s Degrassi: The Next Generation; MTV’s Laguna Beach and The Real World; TNT’s The Closer and Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the
Stories of Stephen King
; and library titles
from the Warner Bros. catalogue such as Babylon 5 and The Jetsons.

In addition, AOL and its joint venture partners program a
variety of additional channels including: In2TV, TMZ.com, Lat34.com, AOL Uncut
Video, AOL Music, AOL News, AOL Coaches, AOL Television, AOL Viral Videos, KOL
and Moviefone.