BayInsider.com Launches New 'Your Town' Channel.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2000 "Your Town" offers easy access to neighborhood news and information, brings local community together online Cox Interactive Media city site BayInsider.com announced today that it has launched a new "Your Town" channel designed to help busy people find useful, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. news and information about their town and neighborhood from one convenient source. Covering 144 Bay area towns, "Your Town" gives people from Moss Beach, Danville and Moraga to San Raphael a unique source for news, events and services that affect their lives. The new channel also serves as an online meeting place for neighbors to discuss community issues. Content and interactive tools on "Your Town" range from up-to-the-minute local news, weather and traffic reports to local entertainment, shopping, recreation, healthcare resources and more. Additionally, the channel's helpful local links offer quick access to local web sites for cities, schools, libraries, chambers of commerce and local community groups. "Our new 'Your Town' channel gives busy people easy access to time-saving tools, news and information where they live," said Claire Laverge, community producer, BayInsider.com. "Whether you're 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 movie theaters, concerts, kids' events or town halls, 'Your Town' helps you personalize your Web search, close to home. People can simplify their commute with neighborhood traffic and weather updates, take advantage of our entertainment listings to find fun local activities, find a neighborhood doctor or dentist, and take advantage of our online maps to get around town." Added Laverge, "BayInsider.com is now giving local residents the 'inside scoop' on their neighborhoods." BayInsider.com is encouraging local media to take an active role in "Your Town" message boards. "If a local media outlet provides us with local issues and monitors the boards, we'll integrate their name, or a link to their Web site, into their town's home page," said Laverge. Visitors to BayInsider.com's "Your Town" channel will find useful news, information and tools including:
-- Find it fast - Search for movie theaters, show times, local
events, taxicabs, restaurants, parks, city statistics and weather
forecasts.
-- Latest news - Stay up to date with the latest news in your
hometown
-- Latest Bay Area news - Get late-breaking local news from all
around the Bay Area
-- Hot Topic - Find out what everyone's talking about in your town
through local discussion boards
-- Bay Area - Check out other Bay Area towns' local news, information
and guides
-- Your Town Guide - Get to know who's who and what's what in your
neighborhood, from entertainment and dining to shopping,
recreation, travel, local hospitals, doctors, dentists, pharmacies
and more
-- Local links - Web sites for your city, local schools, library,
Chamber of Commerce and history are just a click away
-- Local groups - Find community groups, or put yours online free
About BayInsider.com In partnership with No. 1 rated Cox television partner KTVU/Fox, Channel 2, BayInsider.com (www.BayInsider.com), is an interactive online community featuring a powerful local and national search engine, useful tools to help Bay Area residents manage and enhance everyday living and award-winning local news content. BayInsider.com also brings together a community of the most interesting people, groups, clubs, and organizations in the Bay Area. BayInsider.com was recently singled out as best Web site in the television - division "AA" category by the Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern RTNDA RTNDA Radio-Television News Directors Association (Radio-Television News Directors Association The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) is a membership organization of radio, television and online news directors, producers, executives and educators with about 3,000 members. ) for its KTVU- bayinsider.com/news Web page. About Cox Interactive Media Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) has built the #1 rated network of locally-focused city sites across the country. CIMedia (www.cimedia.com) was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Inc., and is headquartered in Atlanta. The network consists of over 70 sites with 24 of them in the top 50 U.S. markets. Cox Enterprises is one of the nation's leading media companies and operator of automobile auctions. Major subsidiaries include Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, local and national direct mail advertising and customized newsletters); Cox Broadcasting, Inc., (TV, spot sales, television production, research and Cox Radio Cox Radio NYSE: CXR is a publicly traded company that holds a number of radio stations. Private company Cox Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises owns all of the company's super-voting Class B common stock, and thus controls the company. , Inc.[NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CXR CXR abbr. chest x-ray CXR, n chest x-ray; an image of the thoracic cavity, produced by an irradiation scan of the upper torso. ]); Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , Inc. ([NYSE: COX] cable distribution, programming, telephone and high-speed Internet See broadband. access services); Manheim Auctions Manheim Automotive Services is the largest and highest volume wholesale automobile auction company in the world. As a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., Manheim provides services including financing, title work, transportation, recovery, auto body repair, dealership management , Inc., which operates auto auctions in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Australia; and Cox Interactive Media, operating a network of Internet City and Specialty Sites across the country. Cox Enterprises also owns a stake in a range of Internet businesses, including AutoTrader.com, the world's largest source of used car listings for dealers and consumers. |
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