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BlackVoices.com and
Match.com Team Up to Offer Online Personals
African-American singles
meet at ‘BlackVoices Hookups’
CHICAGO, February 12, 2003 --
BlackVoices.com, one of the nation’s
leading destinations for African-American adults online, and
Match.com, a global leader in online dating, today announced
an exclusive strategic partnership in which Match.com will
power personals for BlackVoices Hookups, a new online personals
service offered by BlackVoices.com. The new co-branded service
will provide BlackVoices.com members and users immediate access
to the diverse community of millions of singles currently
using Match.com to find relationships ranging from great dates
to life-long mates.
" BlackVoices Hookups provides yet another service that
BlackVoices.com users can enjoy," said Barry Cooper,
BlackVoices.com chief executive officer and founder. "Our
users come to our site because they know they can find news,
entertainment and lifestyle information that suits their interests.
With the help of Match.com, our single users now have an online
destination to meet other eligible singles."
As part of the agreement, Match.com will provide
dating and relationship content on the BlackVoices.com site,
in addition to powering personals for BlackVoices Hookups.
BlackVoices.com will promote the co-branded personals channel
with banner ads across its site.
"Match.com's partnership with BlackVoices.com
is an exciting opportunity to team up with a recognized leader
in African-American news, entertainment and lifestyle information
online,"said Tim Sullivan, president of Match.com. "This
relationship further expands Match.com's ability to reach
the growing number of African Americans using the Internet
to date and relate online."
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About BlackVoices.com
With more than 800,000 active members, BlackVoices.com is
the nation’s leading news, lifestyle, career and entertainment
online destination tailored to meet the needs of African-American
adult consumers. The BlackVoices brand also includes Black
Voices Quarterly magazine, which targets alumni, administrators
and students from the nation's historically black colleges
and universities.
BlackVoices.com is a subsidiary of Tribune
Company (NYSE:TRB), one of the country’s premier media
companies, operating businesses in broadcasting, publishing
and on the Internet. Tribune reaches more than 80 percent
of U.S. households and is the only media company with television
stations, newspapers and Web sites in the nation’s top
three markets.
About Match.com
Match.com is a leading subscription-based online dating site,
offering adults worldwide a fun, private and secure environment
for meeting other singles. Match.com’s personals businesses
claim more than 724,000 paying subscribers and more than 8
million members with profiles posted or who are active users.
The Company estimates it is responsible for arranging hundreds
of thousands of relationships for its members. Match.com powers
paid online dating on MSN, The Excite Network's Relationship
Channels; EarthLink; BET Interactive and is the premier provider
of personals for Love@AOL, offering the Match.com service
across AOL, AOL.com, CompuServe and Netscape.com. Match.com
also offers events and vacation opportunities for singles
through its sites MatchLive.com, operated by its affiliate,
MatchLive, L.L.C., and MatchTravel.com. Match.com is a division
of USA Interactive (Nasdaq: USAI).
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