America Online and Hachette Filipacchi Announce Major New Media/Interactive Services Pact; Extending Exclusive Relationship to Enhance AOL Content, Collaborate on CD-ROM Initiatives, and Explore New Ventures.VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 1995--America Online, Inc. announced today that media giant Hachette Filipacchi Magazines (HFM HFM Hauptfeuerwehrmann (Austria, serve-struggled of fire-brigade) HFM Hemifacial Microsomia HFM Health Facilities Management (journal) HFM Human Factors and Medicine HFM Hemophilia Foundation of Michigan ) has renewed its exclusive contract with the world's largest and fastest-growing online service through the end of 1996, and that the two companies have forged a pact to create enhanced online content and to explore new media opportunities among the emerging technologies of CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and broadband delivery. Ted Leonsis, President of America Online See AOL. Services, Co, said, "Hachette Filipacchi first entered cyberspace two years ago by becoming a media partner with America Online. Now, they are the largest content provider to AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , and have just formed a New Media division that serves as a model for other publishers. AOL has forged an alliance with Hachette Filipacchi New Media to develop new products and extend the boundaries of interactive publishing." "We are extremely pleased with our relationship with America Online, which is the most consumer friendly online service available and is experiencing tremendous growth," said Paul DeBenedictis, President of Hachette Filipacchi New Media. "We have received a very positive response from AOL subscribers to our magazines online, and we look forward to offering them additional titles as well as exciting new media products resulting from our partnership with America Online." Before the year's end, Hachette plans to bring more of its content online through AOL and will work with the online service to develop new media. HFM titles to debut on America Online will include Metropolitan Home, Mirabella, Family Life, Car Stereo Review Stereo Review was a magazine first published in 1958 by Ziff-Davis with the title Hi-Fi Review. It was one of a number of magazines then available for the individual interested in high fidelity. , Video, Car and Driver's Buyer's Guide to New Cars, Road & Track Car Buyer's Guide, and Road & Track Truck Buyer's Guide, as well as content from the Woman's Day Woman's Day is an American magazine aimed at a female readership, covering such subjects as food, nutrition, fitness, beauty and fashion. It was first published in 1931 as a free A&P in-store menu/recipe planner, calculated to make customers buy more by giving them meal Special Interest Publications on such topics as home renovations, weekend projects and fitness/health. The Woman's Day Special Interest Publications will appear under Woman's Day Online, while Car and Driver Online will offer car and truck buying information and Road & Track will also offer new car information. Current Hachette Filipacchi Magazines titles available on AOL are Car and Driver, Road & Track, Elle, Woman's Day, Home, Flying, Popular Photography, Stereo Review, Cycle World, Cycle World's Big Twin, and Boating. Woman's Day, Home and Elle formed the first women's group available on an online service. This New Media/Interactive Services pact extends to CD-ROM publishing ventures between Hachette Filipacchi and America Online. The two collaborated on Hachette Filipacchi's first CD-ROM called "Car and Driver's '95 Buyer's Guide" which has been available in retail outlets since May 1995. HFM and AOL forged an interactive link between the CD-ROM and AOL, offering purchasers of the disc 10 free hours of Car and Driver Online on America Online. In the future, they will work together to create additional interactive links and utilize AOL's marketing and distribution capabilities for original CD-ROM titles. America Online, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on symbol: AMER AMER American AMER Asociación Mexicana de Estaciones Radiodifusoras ), based in Vienna, VA, is the largest and fastest growing provider of online services in the U.S. with the most active subscriber base. AOL offers its 3 million subscribers a wide variety of services, including electronic mail, conferencing, software, computing support, interactive magazines and newspapers and online classes, as well as easy and affordable access to services of the Internet. AOL has a global workforce consisting of more than 2,500 people. Founded in 1985, AOL has established strategic alliances with dozens of companies, including Time Warner, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , Knight-Ridder, Tribune, Hachette, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and American Express. Personal computer owners can obtain America Online software at major retailers and bookstores, or by calling 800-827-6364. In addition to online services and CD-ROM, Hachette Filipacchi New Media, a division of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, is involved in cable and television programming. In the cable arena, Hachette Filipacchi has produced two series, "Car and Driver's Head-2-Head" and "Road & Track Presents", both which appear exclusively on TCI's TV! Network. Under the Hachette Filipacchi Productions banner, "Unzipped," a documentary about fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi was produced and co-won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. It was purchased by Miramax Films and will make its debut in August in theaters nationwide. As well, a co-venture was recently formed with New World Communications For the company controlled by Sun Myung Moon and his Unification Church which owns The Washington Times and United Press International, see . New World Communications to produce television programming based on the editorial content of Premiere magazine, acquired by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines earlier this year. CONTACT: America Online, Vienna Judy Tashbook, (703) 918-1452 or Hachette Filipacchi New Media, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Francie Coulter, (212) 767-6732 |
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