MSN today launched the new Spanish-language version of its popular MSN� Video service and announced that it is hosting the official Web site for the 2005 Billboard Latin Music Conference & Awards, an event that starts today and culminates with an awards show Thursday night, April 28 in Miami, which will be broadcast live on the Telemundo Network. Through these offerings, MSN is delivering broader and richer online entertainment content to Spanish-speaking consumers in the United States as well as greater opportunities for advertisers to reach the valuable U.S. Hispanic market.

Accessible at http://billboard.latino.msn.com, the Billboard Latin Music Awards site will feature exclusive photo galleries, interviews with finalists, related news items, links to downloadable songs and albums from the MSN Music service, video coverage of the awards, and other content. Warner Bros. Pictures, the exclusive sponsor of this year's Billboard Latin Music Awards Web site, also is featuring banner ads for the May 6 release of Dark Castle Entertainment's production of "House of Wax" on the Web site.