March 20, 1999

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

UGN Announces Amiga Radio News

Contacts:
Wayne Hunt, UGN Executive Director - wayne@amiga.org
Casey Halverson, Digital Lightyear Technologies - commando@wolfenet.com
Fabian Jimenez, UGN Public Relations - fabian@cais.com

Location: ugn.amiga.org/arn/

The User Group Network (UGN) is pleased to announce the arrival of Amiga
Radio News.  Amiga Radio News the first Amiga news source to broadcast
live to the Internet using streaming audio!  Amiga User Groups can download
and playback this weekly Amiga news update.  Every Friday, a new update will
uploaded to Amiga Radio News.  Amiga Radio News is located at
http://ugn.amiga.org/arn/.

In order to listen to the Amiga Radio News you will need to download an
Amiga compatible streaming audio player that supports either ADPCM or GSM
6.10.  Fortunately two such players exist and are available off Aminet.
ADPCM_Package.lha is needed for the ADPCM file, and GIR06.lha is needed for
listening to the GSM encoded file.  In the future Real Audio, MP3, and 8SVX
file formats may be added.

The User Group Network is an organization dedicated to the advancement of the
Amiga computing platform and the fostering of Amiga oriented User Groups
worldwide. The UGN will work co-operatively with the owners, licensees, user groups,
and the users to establish and expand a customer support base for licensed Amiga
computer products. The UGN will endeavor to provide a single, centralized resource
for the promotion and assistance of User Groups and users world-wide. The UGN Web
Page is located at ugn.amiga.org.