Fusion.net Beta Joins the Yahoo-ABC News Network, the #1 Digital News & Information Outlet
Fusion – the news, pop culture and satire TV & digital network from ABC and Univision – unveiled a beta version of its website Fusion.net on October 21. It will be a part of the Yahoo-ABC News Network, the leader of news and information online.
Aimed at a young, digital, and diverse America, Fusion.net Beta – a mobile-responsive site – will deliver information through sharp, well-founded opinions, original reporting, humor, and dynamic personalities with a distinctive point-of-view. It will be an incubator for innovation and will continually evolve as Fusion develops an enterprise app and a watch app that will go live in 2014.
“Over 80% of millennials sleep with their phones next to their beds every night because they don’t want to miss a beat,” said Fusion CEO Isaac Lee. “We want to be the ones they wake up with. This beta site will help lay the building blocks as we continue to develop our digital properties.”
“We’re going to make .net cool again,” said Billy Kimball, Fusion’s Chief Programming Officer. “We see it as the Williamsburg of domains.”
Fusion.net will also feature original content from each of its programs airing on TV including “America with Jorge Ramos” (@ThisIsAmerica / #ThisIsAmerica), “The Morning Show” (@Fusion Morning / #FusionMorning), “DNA” (@DNAtv / #DNAtv), “Alicia Menendez Tonight” (@AliciaMenendez / #AMTonight) and “Open Source with Leon Krauze” (@OpenSourceTV / #OpenSourceTV.
You can follow @ThisIsFusion on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram as well as at Facebook.com/FusionNetwork and on Google+.
Fusion.net joins the Yahoo-ABC News Network, which has consistently outpaced its online competitors for 20 consecutive months. For the month of September the Yahoo-ABC News Network continued this winning streak, delivering more total page views and more unique visitors than any other online news source, according to data provided by comScore.
About Fusion
Fusion is a news, pop culture and satire TV and digital network. It will engage and champion a young, diverse, and inclusive America with a unique mix of smart and irreverent original reporting, lifestyle, and comedic content. Fusion will launch in millions of households nationwide on October 28, 2013 as six major distributors have already agreed to carry the cable network including Cablevision, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-Verse, Verizon FiOS and Google Fiber. For more information about Fusion visit www.fusion.net or follow us on Twitter @ThisIsFusion and Facebook @FusionNetwork. Fusion is a joint venture between Univision Communications Inc. and the Disney/ABC Television Network.