America Online subscribers must be breathing easier this week, now that AOL and Warner Bros. Online have assured them that Rosie O'Donnell's site won't soon disappear. Normally, AOL hoards an extraordinary portion of the online revenues associated with any of their partners' sites - and the company has become increasingly greedy about such things since they revealed last year that all of their previous profit claims were phantoms. Our favorite AOL watchers, however, believe that Warner has received a sweetheart deal that accrues enormous revenue benefit to WB, and very little to the host service. Which isn't surprising - after all, AOL Networks president Bob Pittman is an old Warner man himself. Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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