Lycos users will get feature articles, current news items, breaking Hollywood gossip from Mike Walker, and all the latest celebrity news and fashion reports from the National Enquirer and Star Magazine. In addition, Country Weekly Magazine,the number one country music magazine,will coordinate items for a celebrity charity auction on Lycos Auctions (http://auctions.lycos.com). Beginning May 17, 2001, users can bid on items from country music stars including Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, The Highwaymen and others. Proceeds from the auction will benefit The Bone Marrow Cancer Fund.
A Weekly World News game featuring Bat Boy and a Mike Walker National Enquirergossip game will also be available in the coming weeks on Lycos Gamesville (http://gamesville.lycos.com), the premier free games for prizes site in the Terra Lycos Network.
Users come to Lycos Entertainment for the hottest news and gossip on all their favorite celebrities, said Cindy Brown, director of Lycos Entertainment. The National Enquirer and Star Magazine are known as ‘the’ sources for entertainment news headlines. With the addition of AMI’s Enquirer and Starcontent, users can now get gossip and Hollywood scoops around the clock on Lycos Entertainment.
We wanted to team up with Lycos because they truly understand the entertainment space and know what users are searching for online, said Philip Kearney, vice president of new media for AMI Media, Inc. The National Enquirer was recently called ‘the hottest newspaper in America’ by the Washington Post, for being the first to break hot national news events including the stories on Jesse Jackson and the Clinton pardon scandal. Lycos users will now have access to these types of cover stories and breaking news headlines before anyone else.
