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| | CNN - Soap-opera Web site bubbles over into cable - May 7, 1999 |
 | | The new SoapCity channel will offer 24 hours of pure soap-opera drama, taking advantage of the huge fan base that has built SoapCity.com into a highly trafficked site (3 million pages views a month and 40,000 subscribers to the weekly newsletter, the company boasts). |
 | | The SoapCity site offers soap fans news, gossip, pictures and general information on all of the popular soap operas, with a saucy editorial tone set by executive producer Michael Fairman. |
 | | In preparation for SoapCity's cable channel launch, expected to debut in January 2000, the SoapCity Web site will expand its community features to include personalization, homepage building and Webcasts of episodes that viewers may have missed. |
| www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9905/07/soapopera.idg/index.html (477 words) |
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