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More "news": Highly Successful Chat with Jennifer Love Hewitt Kicks Off New Chat Arena NEW YORK, and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- TV Guide Online ( tvguide.com ), the Web's premiere entertainment information site, and Yahoo! ( yahoo.com ) the leading navigational guide to the Internet, have joined forces to create and provide one of the Web's hottest entertainment chat arenas. Hosted by Yahoo!'s popular Yahoo! Chat service ( chat.yahoo.com ), the new programming features weekly chats with popular television, music, sports and movie celebrities and insiders. The agreement between TV Guide Online and Yahoo!(R) brings together two proven brands to offer individuals the rare opportunity to take part in dynamic and entertaining discussions and get the scoop on their favorite celebrities. The new chat series launched with its first live chat in October, featuring actress Jennifer Love Hewitt ("Party of Five," "I Know What You Did Last Summer"). The chat event set records as the most successful celebrity chat for TV Guide Online as well as the largest live, single-celebrity chat event since the launch of Yahoo! Chat early this year. "We are thrilled to partner with Yahoo! in the chat arena," said Jeffrey Leist, chief operating officer, TV Guide Entertainment Network. "Working with Yahoo! is a natural step for us as it combines TV Guide Online's rich entertainment resources with Yahoo! Chat, one of the Web's best interactive communications mediums, providing millions of users access to the optimal entertainment chat environment." Yahoo! Chat features the latest real-time, multimedia, Web-based chat services based on iChat, Inc.'s technology. The service is free and easily accessible to all levels of Internet users. By incorporating TV Guide Online's series of weekly, hosted, live chats with celebrities and TV Guide Soap Opera and sports columnists, Yahoo! Chat now offers users access to live chats with television and movie personalities, key Hollywood newsmakers, entertainers and insiders, and popular recording artists. "Yahoo! Chat continues to team up with leaders in the entertainment industry to expand the chat programming we offer our users," said Ellen Siminoff, vice president of business development at Yahoo! Inc. "TV Guide Online brings Yahoo! Chat some of the biggest celebrities in entertainment, offering our broad chat audience the opportunity to interact with their favorite stars." Upcoming & Ongoing Chats The successful Jennifer Love Hewitt chat was one example of ongoing celebrity chats provided by TV Guide and Yahoo! Chat. Celebrity chats in the month of October also included actress and singing sensation, Brandy ("Moesha"). In addition to celebrity chats, existing popular weekly chats with TV Guide Soap columnist Michael Logan and sports columnist Phil Mushnick continue in the new forum. Both Logan and Mushnick provide a no-holds-barred discussion with fans seeking the inside scoop. Michael Logan is joined by a legion of Soap fans as he dishes out the dirt about daytime's dramas and divas weekly in "SoapsLive!" on Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT, immediately followed by a soap celebrity at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. Upcoming Soap star guests include "Days of Our Lives" Joe Mascolo ("Stephano") on November 11. In "SportsviewLive!," opinionated sports columnist Phil Mushnick chats with fans who share (and oppose!) his strong, cynical views on the sports world's crybabies, corporate sponsors and crooked management every Monday night at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. Mushnick has become a favorite among visitors to TV Guide's sports area, Fox Sports Online ( www.foxsports.com ). Users may access all chats through TV Guide Online ( tvguide.com ) or Yahoo! Chat ( chat.yahoo.com ). About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) is a global Internet media company that offers a network of branded Web programming that serves millions of users daily. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, yahoo.com is the single largest guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet. Yahoo! Inc. provides targeted Internet resources and communications services for a broad range of audiences, based on demographic, key-subject and geographic interests. Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. TV Guide Online is a constituent site of TV Guide Entertainment Network (TVGEN). TVGEN is the Internet's premiere entertainment information source that provides quick and easy access to the most comprehensive and timely news available. Wholly owned by News Corporation, TVGEN ( www.tvgen.com ) encompasses the individual sites TV Guide Online ( www.tvguide.com ), FOX Sports Online ( www.foxsports.com ) and FOX News Internet ( www.foxnews.com ). "Yahoo!" is a registered trademark of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. CO: TV Guide Online; Yahoo! Inc.; TV Guide Entertainment Network; News Corporation; ichat, Inc. ST: California, New York IN: ADV CHM MLM SU: PDT