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Type of site | Pop Culture News |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Ashish Pabari |
Created by | Ashish Pabari |
URL | 411mania.com |
Launched | 1996 |
Current status | Active |
411mania is a pop culture and entertainment news website founded and run by Ashish Pabari. The website is dedicated to news, gossip and opinion columns relating to film, music, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, video games and politics and combines news stories, columns and reviews for its content.
411mania.com receives 15-20 million hits a month, and has been mentioned in The Boston Globe [2], the New York Times [3] and CNN [4] as well as being cited as a news source by WWE.com [5], Yahoo Sports [6], Variety [7] and other media outlets. [8]
411mania.com was founded by Ashish Pabari in 1996 as 411wrestling. The site began as a webhosted site on Geocities [9] and as interest in professional wrestling grew with the Monday Night Wars between the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, the site's readership grew. As it did, the site moved servers and eventually settled in its own domain.
411wrestling shifted their core focus in 2002, expanding from just professional wrestling to include sections for video games and action figures, and then later movies, music, comics and politics. The site re-launched in 2003 as 411mania, with editor Jonathan Widro was promoted to managing partner. Widro departed the site in 2004 with several other writers to found another site, resulting in a change of site organization. The site had a sports section as well, which shifted to focus purely on boxing in March of 2009. The boxing zone was shut down in January of 2011 while the politics section was shut down in March of 2013.
In September of 2014 411mania launched a new site design, updating to a Wordpress format.
411mania.com is organized into different sections (or "zones") depending on the facet of pop culture covered. The current zones as of October 2011 are:
Category:Internet properties established in 1996
Category:Entertainment websites
Category:American websites
230px A screenshot of the home page | |
Type of site | Pop Culture News |
---|---|
Available in | English |
Owner | Ashish Pabari |
Created by | Ashish Pabari |
URL | 411mania.com |
Launched | 1996 |
Current status | Active |
411mania is a pop culture and entertainment news website founded and run by Ashish Pabari. The website is dedicated to news, gossip and opinion columns relating to film, music, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, video games and politics and combines news stories, columns and reviews for its content.
411mania.com receives 15-20 million hits a month, and has been mentioned in The Boston Globe [2], the New York Times [3] and CNN [4] as well as being cited as a news source by WWE.com [5], Yahoo Sports [6], Variety [7] and other media outlets. [8]
411mania.com was founded by Ashish Pabari in 1996 as 411wrestling. The site began as a webhosted site on Geocities [9] and as interest in professional wrestling grew with the Monday Night Wars between the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, the site's readership grew. As it did, the site moved servers and eventually settled in its own domain.
411wrestling shifted their core focus in 2002, expanding from just professional wrestling to include sections for video games and action figures, and then later movies, music, comics and politics. The site re-launched in 2003 as 411mania, with editor Jonathan Widro was promoted to managing partner. Widro departed the site in 2004 with several other writers to found another site, resulting in a change of site organization. The site had a sports section as well, which shifted to focus purely on boxing in March of 2009. The boxing zone was shut down in January of 2011 while the politics section was shut down in March of 2013.
In September of 2014 411mania launched a new site design, updating to a Wordpress format.
411mania.com is organized into different sections (or "zones") depending on the facet of pop culture covered. The current zones as of October 2011 are:
Category:Internet properties established in 1996
Category:Entertainment websites
Category:American websites