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Miss Teen USA Web site still getting hits By The Associated Press
SHREVEPORT -- More than a month after a new Miss Teen USA was crowned in Shreveport-Bossier City, the pageant’s Web site is still getting almost 1,300 looks a day. In fact, it’s getting more interest than the Miss USA pageant held here five months earlier. The grown-up pageant’s Web site got 159,000 hits during and after the pageant in March. Miss Teen USA — more specifically, missteen.shreveport.com — has gotten 168,500, or an average of 1,275 a day. Not to mention three e-mails a day asking for information. "This has been really amazing," said Tom Pace, media relations committee chairman for the Miss Teen USA Pageant. "It shows the power of the Internet. It’s a sign of the connected times we are in today on computers, especially with the teen-age population having more access to computers not only at home but also at school." More than half of the e-mail has been from teen-agers wanting details of the pageant and information about how to enter future pageants, Pace said. Hits are coming from countries as far away as Finland and Australia, and from states as close to home as Texas and Georgia. Most of the national hits have come from Virginia, home state of the newly crowned Miss America. The Miss Teen USA Pageant was at Hirsch Coliseum on Aug. 17, but President Clinton’s post-grand-jury TV address bumped television coverage to the following night. That cut viewer ratings a bit compared to the 1997 pageant. Pageant officials are considering establishing a Miss Teen USA headquarters here and bringing the pageant back to Shreveport-Bossier, possibly for the next two years, said Preston Friedley, president of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau. The Web success shows that the pageant is doing just what city officials hoped — marketing and promoting the area, Friedley said. "This kind of national and international recognition will ultimately bring dollars to Shreveport-Bossier City, not only through tourism but economic development. It’s the kind of positive response we were hoping for," he said. (Copyright 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) |
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