HitFix Announces New Android App, Find Your Fix

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HitFix, a leader in entertainment news, today announced the launch of its first Android app, Find Your Fix.  The new application now puts the company's unique and searchable event calendar on fans' Android devices. The location-based Event Calendar allows users to stay up to speed on the dates, times, places and networks for all of the key happenings in the world of TV, movies, music, video games, DVDs, sports and even local events such as concerts, shows and festivals. In addition, Find Your Fix delivers the latest breaking entertainment news and analysis from the HitFix team of veteran editors and allows readers the ability to navigate directly to their favorite HitFix blogs. In addition to the event and news coverage, Find Your Fix features high quality video ranging from sit down, exclusive celebrity interviews and behind the scenes features to the latest trailers, music videos and TV clips. HitFix's Find Your Fix app is available now for free in the Android Market. 

Find Your Fix features include:

• The latest breaking entertainment news and insider analysis optimized for easy navigation
• Localized Event Calendar featuring TV, music, movie, DVD, video game and local events
• Keyword search functionality and category filters for news and events
• GPS functionality for identifying location, date and time zone
• Ability to set E-mail reminders for Calendar events
• High quality videos including movie trailers, original celebrity interviews, TV clips, behind the scenes looks and music videos
• Links to buy tickets to concerts, movies and sporting events as well as video games and DVDs
• Maps for concerts, sports and local events
• Streamlined access to all HitFix blogs
• Easy content sharing via Facebook, twitter and e-mail

"We are thrilled to broaden HitFix's reach and bring the website's breaking entertainment content to Android's more than 100 million users," said Jen Sargent, CEO and co-founder of HitFix.com.  "Having all of HitFix.com's content and unique calendar features accessible on-the-go will help fans stay up to date on all their favorite entertainment news."

This is the second HitFix.com app following the launch of "Find Your Fix" for iPhone in 2009.  HitFix was founded by industry experts, Jennifer Sargent, CEO and Gregory Ellwood, Editor-In-Chief. The site caters to an 18-34 year old consumer demographic and attracts about equal numbers of men and women, unusual in an industry often dominated by female viewers.  The company generates revenue through advertising, as well as the syndication of content and reaches more than 2 million monthly unique users.

About HitFix

Profiled in BusinessWeek as one of "America's Most Promising Start-ups," Los Angeles-based HitFix brings the world of entertainment news and events to discerning fans that prefer entertainment journalism and events to celebrity scandal. The site reaches more than 2 million unique users each month and is designed for an 18-34 year old demographic. HitFix calls on the talents of renowned entertainment commentators and journalists such as Alan Sepinwall, Drew McWeeny, Daniel Fienberg and Melinda Newman to produce wide-ranging news, interviews and commentary on all aspects of entertainment. For more information visit www.HitFix.com, www.facebook.com/hitfix, www.twitter.com/hitfix or www.youtube.com/hitfix.

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SOURCE HitFix