AOL'S Digital City and The Orange County Register Announce Partnership.DULLES, Va. and ORANGE COUNTY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Feb. 17, 1999-- The Orange County Register Anchors AOL's Digital City Orange County AOL's Digital City, Inc., the nation's No. 1 local content network and interactive community guide, and The Orange County Register, the No. 1 newspaper in Orange County, today announced a significant content partnership. Under terms of the agreement, The Register will be the featured information provider for Digital City Orange County, which is available on AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. at KEYWORD: OC or on the Web at www.digitalcity.com/orangecounty. Stories from the newspaper's news, metro, sports and entertainment sections will be posted daily on Digital City Orange County's News, Sports and Entertainment Channels, and be archived for up to three days. "Digital City Orange County is a dynamic online community, providing an ultimate resource for Southern Californians looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. local information on everything from the best place to eat to movie listings to the latest news, " said Paul DeBenedictis, president of Digital City, Inc. "The Orange County Register's first rate news coverage, superb and in-depth arts and entertainment reviews complement our existing content and we are pleased to make content from The Register available to our thousands of members." "This partnership with AOL's Digital City provides a way to take the rich content of The Orange County Register to online users who may not be familiar with the newspaper," said Jim Wolcott, Deputy Editor, Orange County Register New Media. "It extends our reach beyond the boundaries of Orange County to all of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , the nation and the world." "The alliance leverages the strength and brand of both companies through Digital City's ability to drive viewership and The Orange County Register's depth of content for this community," said Ginger Neal, Register Director of New Business Ventures. "Digital City provides an incredible suite of services and has a tremendous ability to drive viewership. The Orange County Register is known for its compelling local community content. Coupled together this creates a great product for the OC community." The Register launched its Web site ocregister.com in July of 1996 to reach and communicate with Orange County's 31 communities. The Web site compliments the print product, taking advantage of this new platform that offers audio, video and interactive components as well as extended news and information. The Orange County Register is the preeminent provider of news and information in Orange County, CA, the nation's 16th most populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. metropolitan market. The Register ranks in the top 25 newspapers in the US selling 356,953 copies daily and 413,349 Sundays and also publishes 25 weekly newspapers covering Orange County's 31 communities. The Register has won numerous awards including 3 Pulitzer prizes Pulitzer Prizes, annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. for color photography (1985), beat reporting Beat reporting is the craft of reporting on an issue or particular sector, organization or institution over time. Beat reporters build up a base of knowledge on and gain familiarity with the sector, allowing them to provide insight and commentary in addition to reporting straight (1989) and investigative reporting (1996). The Register is owned by Irvine-based Freedom Communications Freedom Communications, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, California, owns more than 75 publications newspapers in the US, with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.2 million subscribers, and also operates over seventy local news websites. Inc., which also publishes 26 daily newspapers, six weeklies, 20 magazines and operates eight broadcast television stations around the country. Digital City, Inc., the nation's largest and the Internet Online's most popular local city resource and interactive community guide reaches more than 4 million people every month according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Media Metrix. Digital City provides an array of interactive products in more than 60 cities and delivers locally relevant news, community resources, entertainment and commerce in a dynamic and easy- to-use format. Available on America Online See AOL. at Keyword: Digital City, on the web at www.digitalcity.com, on CompuServe, ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , Netcenter and aol.com, Digital City combines useful local information, expert reviews, and the personal contributions of the people who use the service to help residents get the most from their communities. Based in Vienna, VA, Digital City, an AOL Studios business, is owned primarily by America Online and Tribune Company The Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB) is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Hartford Courant . |
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