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Tuesday June 20, 10:43 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: USA Networks Interactive
SCIFI.COM Unveils Their Anime Colony ... The First of Many Online Fan Communities to Come
Anime Colony to Include Exclusive Anime Products from SyCoNet.com
NEW YORK, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SCIFI.COM (http://www.scifi.com) announces the launch of the Anime Colony, the first in a series of online communities designed to strengthen and extend the fan base of SCIFI.COM. This dedicated area of SCIFI.COM will provide online Anime fans with expanded content inside a unique anime oriented community. It will also allow fans to interact with one another and create their own homepages, making this colony a primary source for Anime information on the Web. SCIFI.COM will launch additional niche-oriented fan sites over the coming months as part of their relaunch taking place today - June 20, 2000.
The Anime Colony launch signifies a strategic distribution and advertising partnership between SyCoNet.com (OTC Bulletin Board: SYCD - news) and USA Networks Interactive, a division of USA Networks (Nasdaq: USAI - news). As part of the partnership, SyCoNet.com's ANIMEDEPOT.COM will be the exclusive advertising sponsor of ``Anime Colony.''
``We are thrilled to be providing SCIFI.COM users and Anime fans across the globe with an extensive array of talented artistry,'' stated Ben Tatta, Sr. Vice President, USA Networks Interactive.
SyCoNet.Com CEO Sy Picon said, ``SCI FI fans appreciate the theatrical qualities of anime -- the two categories work extremely well together. We're delighted to have this opportunity to provide anime content and products directly to the huge community of SCIFI fans at SCIFI.COM via Anime Colony.''
About SCIFI.COM
SCIFI.COM is a division of USA Networks Interactive, a USA Company (Nasdaq: USAI - news), which fulfills a variety of commerce, information, and entertainment needs for its wired audience. SCIFI.COM (http://www.SCIFI.COM), a 1998 ``People's Choice'' Webby Award winner, is the official Web site of the SCI FI Channel and has been lauded as the top online sci-fi destination since its debut in 1995. Dedicated to the vast spectrum of science fiction, science fact, fantasy, horror, the paranormal and the unknown, SCIFI.COM features original entertainment, commerce, daily news, feature stories, games and ground-breaking special events.
About SyCoNet.com
SyCoNet.com, Inc, distributes Anime movies, including the enormously popular Pokemon©(R) video series, as well as multimedia games and software, DVDs, CDs, toys, apparel, and related merchandise to over 7,500 wholesale and retail accounts nationwide through two high-traffic Web sites, a catalog, and direct sales campaigns. It also provides business-to-business e-commerce, distribution, and communications solutions. For more information on purchasing the Internet's lowest priced Anime videos, visit animedepot.com or altvidwar.com.
Christine Black Annie Chang
USA Networks Interactive SyCoNet.com
(212) 413-5178 (703) 366-3900
cblack@usanetworks.com achang@syconet.com
SOURCE: USA Networks Interactive |
