CNNSI.com to Provide Full Coverage of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2000 Issue.Sports/Leisure Editors &Interactive/Multimedia Writers ATLANTA--(BW SportsWire)--Feb. 17, 2000 CNNSI CNNSI Cable News Network and Sports Illustrated .com, Sports Illustrated's home on the World Wide Web, will provide extensive coverage of the much anticipated Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. Swimsuit 2000 Issue. Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. (all times Eastern), CNNSI.com will post a gallery of more than 100 photos, many of them available exclusively online, plus virtual reality panoramas from the photo shoots. On Monday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m., CNNSI.com will post video clips from the Turner Network Television Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. (TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. ) special, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2000. All swimsuit content on CNNSI.com will be available FREE to users. &uot;This year's Swimsuit coverage will be better than ever with more multimedia features, such as the virtual reality panoramas,&uot; said David Payne, CNN/Sports Illustrated's senior vice president and general manager. &uot;It's a wonderful opportunity for CNNSI.com to showcase one of the magazine's most exciting annual events.&uot; The complete schedule for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2000 unveiling on CNNSI.com is as follows:
-- Friday, Feb. 18: CNNSI.com will post two, two-minute
behind-the-scenes trailers from TNT's special, Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit 2000. Also, the site will link to four previous online
editions of the Swimsuit issue, featuring more than 350 photos
and video clips.
-- Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m.: CNNSI.com will provide more than 100
photos in 14 separate galleries that are presented in Macromedia
Flash, enhancing Swimsuit 2000 with the latest interactive and
multimedia features. A select group of photos will be from the
magazine, with most of them exclusive to CNNSI.com.
-- Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m.: CNNSI.com will post virtual reality
panoramic clips, providing a 360-degree look from the photo shoot
locations, presented in Internet Pictures' iPIX format.
-- Monday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m.: CNNSI.com will provide exclusive clips
that were taken while shooting TNT's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
2000 special. Clips will be available in streaming Real Video and
downloadable in Apple's QuickTime(tm) format.
Additionally, the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2000 Issue will be unveiled exclusively online on America Online See AOL. on Monday, Feb 21 at 8:00 p.m. AOL's more than 21 million members will be the first to view the cover of the highly anticipated Swimsuit Issue at 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. Keyword: Swimsuit, one day before its release to the general public. AOL Live, AOL's chat and live event destination, will also host online chats throughout the week with this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, including an exclusive AOL chat with the cover model, on Monday, February 21 at 8 p.m. CNNSI.com is Time Warner's sports Web site, the home of Sports Illustrated on the Web and the sports site for CNN.com and CNN/Sports Illustrated, the sports news network. The site features up-to-the minute scores, news, statistics and analysis of domestic and international sports, as well as free fantasy sports, live streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and a local sports section Noun 1. sports section - the section of a newspaper that reports on sports sports page - any page in the sports section of a newspaper newspaper, paper - a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; "he read for more than 150 cities. The site features the renowned journalism and photography of Sports Illustrated and content from CNN/Sports Illustrated, as well Turner Sports' NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= , golf and motor sports coverage. |
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