NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Onion, America's Finest News
Source, will launch The Onion News Network online at http://www.onion.com
on Tuesday, March 27, 2007. The Onion News Network will provide online
viewers with the most up-to-date video news reports and excerpts from Onion
News Network programs every Tuesday at http://www.onion.com.
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"We've been waiting for technology to catch up with our advanced vision
for the future of news," said Onion President, Sean Mills. "That day has
finally come."
The world's leader in total news coverage will also be available by
podcast on iTunes and on mobile devices by Helio. The Onion News Network
will also inform TiVo subscribers in their living rooms through the
broadband television service of TiVoCast. Wherever there is a news-delivery
medium, The Onion News Network will be there.
"We discovered there are occasionally times in our viewers' lives when
they are forced to be away from a television," Editor-In-Chief Scott
Dikkers said. "The Onion News Network will fill these gaps of news access
with a seriousness and integrity missing from news today."
In addition to the up-to-the-second breaking news reports, online
viewers will also be privileged to view excerpts from a host of other Onion
News Network programs, such as "In The Know," the nation's oldest and most
respected Sunday-morning news-analysis program hosted by Clifford Banes,
the nation's oldest and most respected newsman. "I haven't heard of the
internet," Banes said. "As for new viewers, they're the least of my
concerns."
About The Onion News Network:
The Onion News Network has set the standard for nonstop, globe-
encompassing 24-hour television news since it was founded in December 1904.
The network currently offers channels in 171 languages and has unbiased in-
the-field reporters stationed in every country in the world. Inside the
U.S., the network can be viewed in 92.2 million households and more than
500,000 prison cells.
SOURCE The Onion
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