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Friday, July 16, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs BPI Communications, Inc. to Acquire Editor & Publisher John Babcock, Jr., President/CEO of BPI Communications, has announced an agreement in principle to acquire The Editor & Publisher Company. Editor & Publisher (E&P) is a newsweekly of the newspaper industry. The Editor & Publisher company also includes: Free Paper Publisher, a monthly magazine reporting news about and issues pertinent to free community newspapers and shoppers, a Yearbook series of annuals that compile pertinent contact, rate, circulation data on newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada. In addition, E&P has both an online and a conference division. BPI Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of VNU-USA, will be adding the E&P operation to its Adweek Magazines group. Adweek Magazines publishes Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek and MC magazines and is also engaged in directories, conference and online businesses. Babcock said, "As the leading magazine in its field, E&P is a perfect complement to our media group." D. Colin Phillips, Publisher of E&P stated, "Based on BPI's leadership in the fields they cover, the Adweek Magazines group will be a perfect place for E&P to continue its 115 year tradition of quality business journalism." In addition to BPI Communications Inc., other subsidiaries of VNU-USA are VNU Marketing Information Services, Bill Communications, and SRDS. BPI Communications provides specialized publications, electronically delivered data and marketing services to the entertainment, media, marketing, arts and design business and consumer communities. BPI publishes 23 magazines including, Billboard, Shoot, The Hollywood Reporter, Architecture, Interiors and American Artist. The Knot and Weddingpages Get Hitched The Knot, a wedding website and gift registry, and Weddingpages, a publisher of regional wedding magazines, have announced a strategic alliance. Under the terms of this agreement The Knot and Weddingpages.com will merge the look and feel of their sites. Through this partnership, The Knot will have access to the directory of local wedding professionals already on Weddingpages.com. In turn, Weddingpages will be able to reach The Knot's millions of users. "At The Knot, we want to be the ultimate resource for every aspect of wedding planning. Because most planning and purchasing takes place on the local level, it was crucial for us to be ahead of the curve in that area," says David Liu, CEO of The Knot. "Other wedding sites out there offer what is essentially `yellow pages,' some of which do not specifically cater to brides and grooms. By partnering with Weddingpages, The Knot becomes the only national wedding website to have a walking sales force in 52 cities and to offer access to local vendors whose real business is devoted entirely to to-be-weds. This alliance reinforces our position as the most comprehensive wedding destination on the Internet." Initially, The Knot and Weddingpages.com will link to one another. In the near future, The Knot will be providing Weddingpages.com with a new design similar to its own, which will help to create a seamless localized extension of TheKnot.com. In addition, The Knot's website will be promoted throughout each of the Weddingpages editions. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive to Develop Site on AltaVista Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI) and AltaVista Company have announced the development of a regional portal site for the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region using AltaVista's Homebase technology. The new site will combine the local news and community information from The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com with popular personalization and portal features from AltaVista. "We see enormous value in providing a full-featured regional portal site to the greater Washington, D.C., market," said Marc Teren, president and publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. "It is the next logical step in meeting our commitment to serve the local community. AltaVista Homebase provides the means for us to extend our relationship with users and offer them a new range of exciting services." Peppers and Rogers Group and Direct to launch 1to1 magazine 1to1 magazine, a publication devoted entirely to one to one marketing and management, will appear in October as the result of a joint venture between Direct magazine, an Intertec publication, and Peppers and Rogers Group, a Stamford, Conn. consulting firm. 1to1 will be published quarterly and stories ranging from front-end marketing to call-center management will run in its pages. "Companies have awakened to the realization that customers are life-time corporate assets," said Ray Schultz, editorial director of Direct Magazine. "They can now become more customer focused because the supporting technologies are both viable and affordable." "Additionally, our recent acquisition of Customer Support Management will enhance our resources in the customer support and services area." Each issue of 1to1 will carry a report on an element of one to one marketing. Its frequency will be expanded through freestanding supplements on these topics throughout the year. The publication will also feature case histories and trend reports on market segments such as financial services, high tech, travel/leisure, manufacturing and automotive. In addition, it will carry benchmark research on practices in the one to one arena. The editorial staff will be headed by Ray Schultz, editorial director of Direct. Paul McDougall, former editor of Digital Production Executive, will serve as editor. Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., authors of The One to One Future (1993), Enterprise One to One (1997), and The One to One Fieldbook (1999), will lead the editorial board, which will be comprised of several members of their firm and outside experts. Paramount and Steven Bochco Announce Joint Venture Paramount Network Television and Steven Bochco have entered into a joint venture to develop television series, it was announced by Garry Hart, president of the Network Television Division of the Paramount Television Group. Under the five year joint venture, which begins in January 2000, Bochco will create and produce series with Paramount Network Television. In making the announcement Hart commented, "As we enter into the new millennium, we are excited to be collaborating with Steven. Clearly, he is one of the great storytellers of our time and this long-term partnership holds great significance for the Division. Audiences have been entertained by Steven's prolific work in television and I am thrilled he has chosen Paramount as his creative partner on future projects." Bochco, who has created over 20 drama series and produced more than 700 hours of programming, currently serves as the co-creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning NYPD Blue for ABC and City of Angels, which will debut this fall on CBS. His series have garnered enormous critical acclaim and have received numerous accolades including multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, Peabody, Writers Guild and Director Guild Awards. EncycloZine.com Launches EncycloZine, formerly known as CyberWeb SoftWare and the creators of The Web Developer's Virtual Library, has announced the launch of their new site, EncycloZine.com. The site inclues articles covering the arts, humanities, science, and technology, and will provide links to the best sites for further study. The site will also include discussion forums and interactive puzzles, games and quizzes. Alan Richmond, EncycloZine President, said, "What has happened to the web since the early days? The early vision was of the web as a huge virtual library, with information on everything available at the click of a mouse, the realisation of Vannevar Bush's Memex. To some extent, that vision happened - but got buried under a deluge of amateurism, commercialism, spam, porn, sheer rubbish, and so on. Locating information on the web is becoming more and more problematic. The Truth Is Out There, as they say, but you have to go on a Quest to find it." IDX.com Acquires Dietsite.Com IDX.com has announced the acquisition of Dietsite.com "This is one of the many planned acquisitions and strategic alliances we will be making as we roll out IDX.com services, using IDX's asset of 118,000 physicians and 30 years of experience in the healthcare and technology sector, to find the best partners," explained IDX Chief Executive Officer Richard E. Tarrant. "With Dietsite.com, IDX.com's physician customers will be able to provide their patients with disease-specific dietary information. Using customized web pages set up for each patient, physicians and healthcare organizations will also provide general nutrition and wellness services." Mercury Research Launches Online Magazine Mercury Research has launched a new website for hard-core gamers and other PC enthusiasts. The site, called The Meter, is designed to help these high performance computer users choose the best hardware. "Computer enthusiasts trust Mercury Research to help them decide what add-in cards to buy, because they know that computer makers and other hardware suppliers rely on us for the same information," said Mike Feibus, a principal analyst at Mercury Research and an editor for The Meter. "With The Meter, enthusiasts will be able to get the information they need in a format tailored for them, and in a more timely fashion." In addition to the graphics accelerator coverage, The Meter will focus on other areas of the PC that impact performance, including processors and memory technology. The site will be updated regularly. Mercury Research Inc. of Scottsdale, is a research and consulting firm that is dedicated to providing insight into the markets for PC components and related hardware. Mercury Research publishes reports on a variety of critical technologies, including graphics components, processors and chip sets, and sound chips. 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