"Parent Soup" joins GNN's menu; "Soup" Creators iVillage Selected as GNN Studio Partner.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 1996--Just three months into its launch, the online production studio iVillage has partnered with a major Internet player to bring its unique brand of consumer-oriented programming to the World Wide Web. Under an agreement announced today, iVillage will become a "studio partner" of GNN GNN - Global Network Navigator , the Internet-based community news and entertainment network (on America Online See AOL. ). iVillage will be one of just ten outside content providers worldwide participating in strategic partnerships. Initially, GNN will carry iVillage's "Parent Soup," an online channel whose content will speak to all parents: men, women, married, single, grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl , etc., according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. iVillage chairman/CEO Candice Carpenter. "Along with its substantial core of loyal users, GNN will be aggressively attracting new users to Web, which virtually assures us a substantial audience," Carpenter said. "GNN represents the next generation of packaging online, and iVillage represents the next generation of community-based content." GNN has offered "Parent Soup" prime positioning in the sections called "Voices" and "Netizens", Carpenter said. "Parent Soup" is scheduled to launch in January on America Online, GNN and the World Wide Web. Along with "Parent Soup," iVillage plans to build "channels" on work, lifestyle, food, relationships, and health. "Parent Soup, it's about real life and confusing times," said Lisa Gansky, Vice President, GNN America Online, Inc. "Bringing the touch of real people with all the wonder, humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , passion and candor can·dor n. 1. Frankness or sincerity of expression; openness. 2. Freedom from prejudice; impartiality. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from of real life. It's sure to be a place for parents, grandparents, and would be parents to thrive. At GNN, we are delighted to bring programs of this quality, for this medium and this audience, forward." GNN, a service provided by America Online, is the first truly national, fully integrated Internet service for consumers. GNN is located at http://www.gnn.com. GNN includes a range of programming, search and self-publishing tools aimed at serving emerging and established communities. iVillage was created to develop high-quality "popular programming" in areas of particular interest to consumers. iVillage's founding partners include Candice Carpenter, a former president of Q2 and Time-Life Video; president Nancy Evans, founding editor of Family Life magazine and former president and publisher of Doubleday; and Robert Levitan, founder and president of YearLook Enterprises, the video publishing company. Contact: Michael Kaminer, Shelley Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. Michael Kaminer Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most 212/627-8098 or mkpr@aol.com or Jane Dryden Director of Public Relations, GNN 510/883-7109 or Skye Ketonen Niehaus, Ryan, Haller 415/615-7905 |
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