Belo Selects Clickshare to Manage Subscriptions To DallasNews.com's Electronic Newsletters.Business Editors WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001 Clickshare Service Corp., a leading Internet transaction platform for digital goods, today announced it will be managing the subscription accounts for DallasNews.com's growing family of electronic newsletters. DallasNews.com provides a suite of both free and paid email newsletters, including several for followers of professional and college sports teams such as the Dallas Cowboys Clickshare will handle customer account management, including all transactional aspects of the subscriptions. Delivery of the product takes place over Internet-based email, and will be handled by DallasNews.com, the website affiliated with The Dallas Morning News, the tenth largest daily newspaper in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The Dallas Morning News is one of four newspapers owned by Belo, one of the nation's largest media companies. The company's Internet subsidiary, Belo Interactive, is leading the way towards establishment of profitable selling of electronic content, in this case using a newsletter subscription model. Flory Bramnick, vice president of strategic alliances at Belo Interactive, said, "In order to concentrate on our core business of delivering news and information, Belo needed a reliable technology supplier to handle account management, and we have found that partner in Clickshare. A proven leader in helping electronic publishers monetize their content, Clickshare makes the ideal partner, and will help ensure that our email-based news delivery model remains a solid approach to doing business on the Internet." Phil Calvert, vice president of business development at Clickshare, said, "Belo has a long history of innovation and strategic positioning, and DallasNews.com has already established a track record in delivering relevant content accurately and quickly. By being in the forefront of creating more robust online revenue streams, Belo Interactive is continuing this tradition. We are excited to have them as part of the Clickshare network and look forward to working with them to explore new revenue opportunities." Belo's newspaper group comprises four daily newspapers with a combined circulation that exceeds 800,000 daily and more than 1.2 million on Sunday. The Dallas Morning News is Belo's flagship newspaper with the nation's seventh-largest Sunday circulation and tenth-largest daily. The company also owns 17 television stations, and owns or operates six cable news channels. About Belo Interactive Belo Interactive is a Belo subsidiary. Belo is one of the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of market-leading broadcasting, publishing, cable and interactive media assets. A Fortune 1000 company with more than 8,000 employees and $1.5 billion in annual revenues, Belo operates news and information franchises in some of America's most dynamic markets and regions, including Texas, the Northwest, the Southwest, Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. , and the Mid-Atlantic region. Belo owns 17 television stations (six in the top 17 markets) reaching 13.7 percent of U. S. television households; owns or operates six cable news channels; and manages three television stations through local marketing agreements. Belo publishes four daily newspapers: The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA.) and the Denton Record-Chronicle The Denton Record-Chronicle is the official newspaper for the city of Denton, Texas and Denton County since 1899. William Edwards consolidated the Denton Chronicle (1882) and the Denton County Record (1898), as a weekly newspaper. (Denton, TX.). Belo Interactive's new media businesses include 34 Web sites, several interactive alliances, and a broad range of Internet-based products. For more information, contact John Granatino, Belo Interactive's vice president/news and operations at 214-977-4039. Additional information, including earnings releases, is available online at www.belo.com. About Clickshare The Clickshare Service is an Internet transaction infrastructure for privacy-protected purchasing of text, music, video, software, and other products and services. It allows a consumer to have one account at a most-trusted website and buy from other websites without having to pass around a credit-card number, register or give out personal information. Clickshare's clients include Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, Comtex News Network Inc., uclick.com (Andrews McMeel/Universal Press), China Online, HomeTip.com, the Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, in Christianity Corpus Christi [Lat.,=body of Christ], feast of the Western Church, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (or on the following Sunday). (Texas) Caller Times, Foster's Daily Democrat Foster's Daily Democrat is a six-day (Monday-Saturday) afternoon broadsheet newspaper published in Dover, New Hampshire, USA, serving the communities of southeast New Hampshire and southwest Maine. It publishes on Sunday as Foster's Sunday Citizen. (Dover, N.H.), the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, the Sioux City Sioux City, city (1990 pop. 80,505), seat of Woodbury co., NW Iowa, at the junction of the Big Sioux and Floyd rivers with the Missouri; inc. 1857. It is a shipping, wholesale trade, and industrial center for an extensive agricultural and livestock area (including (Iowa) Journal, the Lawrence (Ks.) Journal-World, Cineman Syndicate and others. Clickshare maintains engineering and administrative offices in Williamstown, Mass., and Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part . Its investors include Sawgrass Sawgrass can be:
LLC - Logical Link Control and private individuals, including founding executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Inquirer Morning newspaper, long one of the most influential dailies in the eastern U.S. Founded in 1847 as the Pennsylvania Inquirer, it took its present name c. 1860. It was a strong supporter of the Union in the American Civil War. and Chicago Sun-Times This article is about the Chicago newspaper. For the Canadian newspaper, see Owen Sound Sun Times. The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. . Its executives, board and advisors include veterans of the publishing and credit-card industries. |
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