ChickClick.com Launches First Nationally Syndicated On-Air Radio Program, ChickClick Radio, for Young Women.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 ChickClick.com Partners with WiredPlanet.com to Let Users Create Their Own Internet Radio Listening to audio broadcasts via the Internet. There are more than 4,000 broadcasts available on the Internet that can be streamed and played by a software media player in the computer or in a stand-alone Internet radio with the software built in. Stations ChickClick.com, the Web's most progressive network of sites for young women, announced today the launch of the first radio program targeted to young women. ChickClick Radio debuted on Saturday, July 8, in 27 markets throughout the U.S. and can also be heard online at http://www.chickclickradio.com. ChickClick Radio online, powered by WiredPlanet, will allow visitors to the Web site to hear archived editions of the ChickClick Radio show along with a variety of music stations programmed by ChickClick's editors. Broadcast on CHR CHR canine hypoxic rhabdomyolysis. , top-40 and via ChickClick.com, this one-of-a-kind radio program aims to entertain and inform young women with top 40 music, celebrity interviews, short lifestyle features and "voices from the street." ChickClick.com, a Snowball.com (Nasdaq:SNOW) network, has developed a loyal following of over a million registered users for its sophisticated, sassy sas·sy 1 adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est 1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. content and community tools. "There are many radio shows targeted at teens in general and young men, but no programs that give young women the music, entertainment and information that speaks to them," said Caroline Frye, ChickClick Network Director. "ChickClick Radio aims to cultivate a young female audience, an important segment of radio listeners that current radio programming has neglected for far too long." ChickJockeys The hosts of ChickClick Radio -- the "ChickJockeys" -- capture and convey the vibe of this unique program. Selected from a sea of wanna-be "ChickJockeys", Michelle Madden and Juliet Zacarias are LA-based talents. Juliet, who was raised in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , is a seasoned Internet Jockey who hosted several programs on KIIS KIIS Kansai Institute of Information Systems .FMi.com. She also hosted TV shows Teen Connection and In-Focus Fashion on KLCS-TV. Michelle, a transplant from Milwaukee, is building her career as an actress and comedienne in LA. Her past projects include movies Being John Malkovich John Gavin Malkovich (born December 91953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. Biography Early life Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, of Croatian descent on his father's side and of Scottish and German ancestry on his , 20 Dates, and Your Friends and Neighbors, and span television and stage as well. She is also a contributor to Jane magazine. Be Your Own "ChickJockey" In addition to tuning into the Internet to hear the ChickClick Radio show, visitors to will be able to customize ChickClick's online radio stations and even create their own personal stations. Using technology from WiredPlanet (www.wiredplanet.com), ChickClick Radio will bring a personal and customizable online music experience to ChickClick Radio users. Listeners can control how often they hear each song, find information about the artists, and add their favorites to their personal ChickClick Radio stations. When listeners hear a track that they want to keep, they are just one click away from purchasing the music. About WiredPlanet San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden based WiredPlanet (www.wiredplanet.com) provides turnkey streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. solutions for online businesses, recording artists, and consumers. WiredPlanet employs a variety of audio streaming See streaming audio. and personalization technologies to deliver an online music experience that is personal and customizable-"Music Your Way." WiredPlanet gives partners the tools to quickly and easily develop streaming entertainment systems customized for their own audiences. About ChickClick.com ChickClick.com, created in February 1998, is a network of independent, progressive women's Web sites that offers invaluable content, community, commerce and life tools for over 1.3 million registered women and girls worldwide. ChickClick features entertainment, news, sports, money, home, relationships and health content in addition to a suite of free services including email, voicemail, personal startpages and horoscopes. In 1999, ChickClick was a major sponsor or Lilith Fair and in 2000 ChickClick Radio was launched to bring music to the masses via the first radio program targeted to young women. ChickClick.com is a network of Snowball.com. About Snowball.com Snowball.com (Nasdaq:SNOW) is the leading online network for Generation i and the companies that want to reach its population of Web-centric young adults. Snowball aggregates top Generation-i produced Web sites and brings its active Net-centric audience to companies that offer products and services targeted to the demographic. The company is the 31st largest Internet property according to Media Metrix. Its primary networks include ChickClick.com, IGN IGN Ignored (Status) IGN Institut Geographique National IGN Ignition IGN Instituto Geografico Nacional (Spain) IGN Imagine Games Network IGN In-Game Name (gaming) .com and PowerStudents.com. Snowball.com is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., with locations in 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 and Los Angeles. |
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