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Channel One Network, the preeminent news and content provider for teens, reaching more than six million students in middle schools and high schools across the country, is dedicating its full show today to the documentary film Two Million Minutes. The documentary follows six students in India, China, and the United States during their senior years of high school, comparing how these students prioritize their �2 million minutes.� The segment will include clips from the powerful new film as well as interviews with its creator and four of the students featured in the movie. Additionally, on Tuesday, May 13, students� candid views on whether or not they feel well prepared to compete against their peers from around the world will also air during Channel One�s �Your Turn� segment with additional student interviews running on ChannelOne.com. �We hope that our program and the documentary get students, teachers, parents, and principals talking about the educational experiences and cultural changes we need to make if we want our students to be successful in the global economy marketplace of the future,� said Paul Folkemer, SVP, Director of Education, Channel One Network. �Channel One News chose to bring the film�s message into America�s classrooms because it raises some of the toughest issues that our generation will face, and ignoring the problem won�t make it go away.� Two Million Minutes observes that students in these countries spend their time in drastically different ways, and priorities of students in the United States don�t focus as heavily on academics as those of students in Asia. The film notes that this can have serious implications for the U.S. economy in the 21st century. The film�s creator and executive producer, Bob Compton, is a successful venture capitalist and entrepreneur who was compelled to visit India and China after seeing his companies start hiring talent overseas. What he observed about the students� education in these countries shocked him and inspired him to produce Two Million Minutes. �I hope that this piece is a wake-up call for students around the country,� said Compton. �Unlike students of my generation, today�s students have an entirely new set of competitors � peers from India and China who outnumber them and generally out-study them.� The special program airing on Two Million Minutes will feature interviews from Apoorva Uppala and Rohit Sridharan of Bangalore, India, and Brittany Brechbuhl and Neil Ahrendt of Carmel, Indiana. They were seniors in high school during the movie and are now all freshmen in college. Upcoming screenings include Seattle (at Seattle University on May 12), San Francisco (on May 13), Palo Alto (at Stanford on May 14) and Boston (TiECON East Conference on May 30). For more information on screenings, to purchase a copy of the entire 60-minute film, or to look for a screening in your area, please visit www.2mminutes.com. About Two Million Minutes This documentary film takes an in-depth look at how students in the United States allocate their high school years (approximately four years or two million minutes) compared with those in India and China. It examines the implications this may have on the U.S. position in the global economy during the 21st century. Two Million Minutes is currently screening across the country. For more information, please visit www.2mminutes.com. About Channel One Peabody and Webby Award-winning Channel One News, an Alloy Media + Marketing Company (NASDAQ: ALOY), is the preeminent news and content provider reaching over six million teens in middle schools and high schools across the country, nearly 25% of teenagers in the United States. In recent months, Channel One News has covered fast-breaking world events from regions such as Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Myanmar, and Qatar. Through a partnership with NBC News' Peacock Productions, Channel One expands its global newsgathering capabilities, ensuring worldwide coverage wherever and whenever news breaks. Channel One News programming has been featured on leading networks and news programs, including NBC's Nightly News and The Today Show, CNN, ABC News, and Nightline. Visit the Webby Award-winning website www.ChannelOne.com to learn more.