Weather.com Provides Excite@Home's Users With Online Weather Information.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2001 weather.com, a leading source of weather on the Web and the official site of The Weather Channel(R), today announced that it will provide weather content to Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM ATHM Excite@Home (NASDAQ symbol) ATHM Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine ATHM American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA) ), the leader in broadband. weather.com will deliver to Excite@Home current conditions, forecasts and severe weather alerts for 35,000 locations worldwide. Excite@Home will provide users with links to weather.com for additional weather-related content such as skiing, health and travel. The service extends to both Excite.com, as well as Excite@Home's high-speed broadband Internet See broadband. service. weather.com will also provide Excite@Home with video and audio content, local and regional Doppler radar A system for measuring speed that is based on the Doppler effect. It is used in police radar systems as well as for measuring the velocity of hurricanes and tornadoes. See Doppler effect. maps and international satellite images. Additionally, weather.com will provide weather content for Excite's wireless portal A Web site that supports a user with a smartphone or alphanumeric pager. It may offer a variety of features, including providing a springboard to other (WAP based) wireless sites, the ability to select content to be pushed to the user's device as well as providing a point of entry for , www.mobile.excite.com. "Excite@Home is committed to providing its users with excellent and compelling content. Excite@Home is pleased to be working with weather.com to provide best-of-class weather information to our customers," said Peter Negulescu, vice president and general manager, Excite Content Applications for Excite@Home. "This is a great opportunity for weather.com to provide our reliable and up-to-date content to Excite@Home's users," said Debora Wilson, president and chief executive officer for weather.com "As Excite@Home's weather content provider, we will deliver weather information to consumers across multiple platforms--broadband, wireless, and the Web." About weather.com weather.com, The Weather Channel(R) Web site, is the world's leading source of weather on the Web. weather.com is consistently ranked among the top single-content sites on the Web by Media Metrix and one of the leading news and information sites by Nielsen//NetRatings. Averaging 300 million page views and 13 million unique users per month, the weather.com network offers comprehensive forecasts for more than 77,000 locations worldwide and provides relevant content to help users plan for everyday life. Additionally, weather.com is the leading provider of broadband and wireless weather products accessible through high-speed Internet See broadband. services, phones, pagers, Palm Pilots and other personal digital assistants. Partnerships include America Online See AOL. , ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. , Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , Nokia, AT&T Wireless, AvantGo and Palm Computing. Excite@Home, @Home, Excite and the "@" stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. logo are trademarks of At Home Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. This press release contains forward looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements include statements relating to content to be provided to Excite@Home and platforms for display of such content. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties described in weather.com's filings with the SEC. weather.com assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release. |
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