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Weather ,sports, and news sites Score Big Hits
Rain or Sun? Hot or cold? Weather is the leading online news item, with at least 10,000 websites devoted to this field . Millions of people view the WX sites (figure19) each month.
Baseball may b the national pastime , but sports aficionados yearn for everything from auto racing to cricket . The internet has more than one million pages of multimedia sports news, entertainment , and merchandise.
The internet has emerged as a major sources for news, with one –third of Americans going online at least once a week and 15 percent going online daily for reports of major news events. Many of these viewers are using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Technology to b notified when news stories about their favorite topics are available on the internet. Popular weathers,sports, and news web sites are listed in figure 20.
Figure 19 Local, national , and international weather conditions and details about breaking weather stories are available on WX.
Weather, Sports , and News Web Sites
Weather
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Web Address
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Infoplease Weather
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Intellicast
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National Weather Service
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www.crh,noaa.gov
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Storemfax
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The weather channel
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Wx
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Sports
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Web Address
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Cbs sports line
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Espn
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Ncaasports
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Official website of the Olympic movement
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Sirc---Aworld of sport information
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Sporting news radio
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Radio.sportingnews.com
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News
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Web Address
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Google news
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Msnbc
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New York post online eition
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Online news papers
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Privacy
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Silliconvalley
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Starting page
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Usa today
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Usa today.com
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Washington post
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Figure 20 Keep informed about the latest weather, sports, and news events with these websites.Prequel to Let's Kill Hitler
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