ABC News Radio and Movies.com Launch New Weekly Entertainment Programming; New Segments Will Make Movies.com Content Available to More than 4,600 Affiliate Stations Nationwide.Business/Entertainment Editors NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2004 Movies.com, a leading website for movie fans, and ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. Radio, today announced a new series of weekly entertainment features which will be made available to all ABC Radio ABC Radio is a broadcasting unit of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation.[1] ABC Radio was, from 1945 until 2007, the division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) focused on AM radio and FM radio broadcasting. affiliates across the country. Beginning today, ABC News Radio will produce a series of 60-second entertainment updates comprised of branded content Branded Content, also known as Branded entertainment and Advertainment, is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. from Movies.com. The spots will be issued four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as follows: -- Monday -- The Movies.com Box Office Report by Bill Diehl: a guide to the box office champions from the previous weekend. -- Wednesday -- The BuzzBin from Movies.com: delivering the buzz on the week's most talked about movies in production -- Thursday -- ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. What's Coming on Movies.com: a guide to what's new in theaters this week -- Friday -- The Movies.com Cinemafiles: a clever, topical compendium of must-see DVDs inspired by current events "Radio is a natural extension of our brand," said Dan Sherlock, vice president of Movies.com. "Movies.com helps movie-goers decide what movies they may want to see -- as well as where and when to see them -- and it is very much our goal to reach our fans in all forms of consumer media." "This is a great partnership," says Steve Jones Steve or Steven Jones is the name of: In Music:
The new radio segments, which can also be heard via links on the Movies.com site, include a regular "spotlight" segment that is presented by current Movies.com site sponsors. About Movies.com Launched in March 2000, Movies.com provides a broad array of news, original content and services, including show times and ticket sales, to help movie fans make the right choice on movie night. Operated by the Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney. , its content encompasses films from throughout the film industry and follows films from production through video/DVD releases. It was recently named "Best Movie Site" in the 2003 WebAwards from the Web Marketing Association (WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. ). About ABC Radio Networks ABC Radio Networks has more than 4,600 affiliate radio stations reaching 127 million people age 12 and over each week. In addition to ABC News Radio, winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award The Edward R. Murrow Award can mean:
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