SAN DIEGO, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Can't go to the game?
Just because you can't be in San Diego doesn't mean you can't experience
San Diego as it gears up for the big game.
Stay-at-home fans now have an insider connection to San Diego and Super
Bowl XXXII activities, thanks to a package posted free on the Internet at
SanDiegoInsider.com ( http://www.sandiegoinsider.com ).
-- Read first-hand accounts from local personalities: Bolt Boy and
Jane Mitchell's Excellent Super Bowl Adventure
-- Go inside the party scene via "Party Paparazzi"
-- Track ticket prices and places to stay
-- Go where the natives go in "Local Hangouts"
-- Learn to "Speak San Diegan"
-- Check out Get Around, which includes local events, transportation
information, weather news and other logistics tips.
"We are truly interactive, so from anywhere in the world you can go onto
our bulletin boards and request information about what's happening in San
Diego," said Mark Forster, City Site Manager for Cox Interactive Media's San
Diego studio. "With 675,000 online users here, we expect these bulletin
boards to generate a lot of activity."
Other features of SanDiegoInsider.com include:
-- Super Bowl Bulletin Board -- The only San Diego Web site where anyone
and everyone can post messages about their Super Bowl-related
experiences -- from landing a ticket ... to finding a place to stay ...
to posting a Super Bowl prediction.
-- Behind the Scenes -- Interviews with San Diegans working behind the
scenes to pull off Super Bowl XXXII without a hitch.
-- Channel 4 Super Bowl -- Online guide details all Super Bowl XXXII
televised programming from sister company Cox Communications' Ch. 4
Super Bowl. Televised coverage (in San Diego and Orange County) begins
Jan. 16 and continues 24 hours a day through Super Bowl Sunday on
Ch. 4. Viewers get complete coverage of the events and excitement
surrounding the big game.
SanDiegoInsider.com is an online community created by Cox Interactive
Media and includes sports, recreation, entertainment, topical events and news.
To participate in the new Super Bowl section on SanDiegoInsider.com you
need access to the Internet. Once on the World Wide Web, open the URL by
typing SanDiegoInsider.com's address: http://www.sandiegoinsider.com and
pressing the return key. SanDiegoInsider.com's home page will appear, with a
link to Super Bowl 32.
CIM is the nation's largest provider of comprehensive local content on the
Internet, surpassing every traditional media company and online provider. In
the past year, the Atlanta-based company has experienced explosive growth,
going from a two-person shop to employing more than 225 people. By mid-1998
it will employ 400 people. CIM produces the nation's largest, most extensive
and fastest-growing network of city and specialty Web sites, CIMnet. To date,
CIMnet includes 14 city sites and six specialty Web sites.
Cox Interactive Media, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., is
headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises
includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book
publishing), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production,
research, publicly traded Cox Radio, Inc.) and publicly traded Cox
Communications, Inc. (cable distribution, programming, broadband
communications) in addition to Cox Interactive Media. The company is also the
world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions,
providing financial services, government auctions, online services and price
guides.
SOURCE Cox Interactive Media
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Related links:
http://www.sandiegoinsider.com
CONTACT:
John Pihl of Cox Interactive Media,
619-683-4173, or john.pihl@cimedia.com
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