America Online and The Weather Channel Enter Multi-year Agreement Across AOL Brands.DULLES, Va., and ATLANTA, August 16, 1999 -- weather.com Becomes Premier Weather Information Provider for 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. , AOL.COM, Netscape Netcenter and CompuServe America Online See AOL. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, and The Weather Channel(R) Web site, weather.com, the world's leading source of weather information on the Web, today announced a multi-year agreement making weather.com the premier weather information provider to AOL, AOL.COM, Netscape Netcenter and CompuServe.com. The relationship presents both AOL and weather.com with significant opportunities. Under the agreement, weather.com will offer AOL, AOL.COM, Netscape Netcenter and CompuServe users dramatically enhanced and in-depth weather coverage, including forecasts and weather conditions for over 70,000 national and international locations. Additional features will include extensive weather-related news coverage and educational information as well as specialized content relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the impact of weather on health, travel and outdoor activities. weather.com will also provide AOL with multimedia slideshows and selected video, and AOL will receive promotion on The Weather Channel cable network and in other weather.com promotional outlets. "As people's everyday lives get increasingly busy, their ability to find up-to-the-minute weather information plays a key role in how they are able to plan their time and activities," said Jonathan Sacks Not to be confused with Yonason Sacks. Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. , AOL's Senior Vice President and General Manager. "Our alliance with The Weather Channel and weather.com will bring the best-known brand in weather forecasting weather forecasting Prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics and meteorology. Weather forecasting predicts atmospheric phenomena and changes on the Earth's surface caused by atmospheric conditions (snow and ice cover, storm tides, floods, and the most trusted source of weather information in the world to AOL's family of brands. It gives our members and users of our Web-based destinations the timely and accurate information they need to make decisions, whether traveling, planning for the weekend, or even deciding when to water their lawns." 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. Debora Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer of weather.com, the relationship with AOL provides weather.com, already one of the fastest-growing sites on the Web, the opportunity to significantly increase its unique user base. Says Wilson, "By teaming with AOL, we're broadening our reach to the largest online community on the Internet. In particular, we expect to attract consumers who are experiencing the Internet for the first time as well as new at-home users. We expect weather.com page views to grow by 3 billion over the next 3 years and the Web site's share in the market place to increase by over 20%." America Online Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 17 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers; AOL MovieFone, the nation's No. 1 movie listing guide and ticketing service; and Spinner Networks and NullSoft, Inc., leaders in Internet music. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. The Weather Channel The Weather Channel, Inc., based in Atlanta, is the nation's premier provider of weather information. The only 24-hour international weather network, The Weather Channel is seen in more than 72 million homes nationwide. The Weather Channel Web site, weather.com, is one of the fastest growing sites on the Internet and the world's leading source of weather on the Web. Weather.com offers forecasts for more than 70,000 locations worldwide and features special lifestyle sections and online services that leverage both wireless and broadband platforms to create a one-of-a-kind online experience. Weather.com averages more than 130 million page views per month and is consistently ranked the top single-content news site by Media Metrix. Its marketing and distribution relationships include Road Runner, CompuServe, iVillage, MindSpring, AOL's Digital City, About.com and LookSmart; wireless alliances including GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Airfone, Nokia, AT&T Wireless, SkyTel and Palm Computing. The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications, Inc., a Norfolk, Va.-based privately held media company with global interests. |
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