BroadcastAMERICA.com Signs Deal with Air Force News Service; Military Radio and Television News Increases Its Potential Audience Reach.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PORTLAND Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2000 In a move that will exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. increase the worldwide reach of military radio and television news, BroadcastAMERICA.com announced today it has received approval from the Department of the Air Force The executive part of the Department of the Air Force at the seat of government and all field headquarters, forces, Reserve Components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the Air Force. Also called DAF. See also Military Department. to broadcast its Air Force News Service programming on the BroadcastAMERICA.com network on a new channel to be called BroadcastAIRFORCE.com. The content will be &uot;streamed&uot; live and archived on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at no cost to the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force News Service offers news programming that reaches 21 million weekly customers worldwide -- both on Air Force bases and on selected cable stations nationwide. The two-year, 24-month agreement allows the Air Force to put its programming on the Internet at no charge to the government, giving them instant access to the more than 30 million people estimated to watch and listen to audio and video content on the Internet this year, 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. Arbitron. &uot;We know from our database that we have a large military audience and we wanted to find a way to provide them more relevant and interesting programming,&uot; says BroadcastAMERICA.com president John Brier brier or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier, and the greenbrier. French brier, or brierroot, is a name for the root of the European white heath so widely used in the manufacture of smoking pipes. . &uot;An arrangement with Air Force News Service seemed like a logical choice. We're just providing visitors to our site a new and more convenient way to access their favorite AFNS AFNS Air Force News Service AFNS Automatic FM Noise Suppressor AFNS Armed Forces Nursing Service shows -- by clicking on BroadcastAIRFORCE.com anytime, anywhere.&uot; &uot;We're excited that a larger group of people will now have access to see and listen to our programming, both internally and externally,&uot; says B. Kim McDonald, director of Air Force News Service. &uot;Our customers win because they get to see and hear the Air Force story in new dynamic, content-rich ways at no cost to the government.&uot; Air Force News Service, a directorate of the Air Force News Agency, is located in San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. . The directorate uses television, radio, satellite and World Wide Web channels to tell the U.S. Air Force story and provide internal information to airmen around the world. Some of its products include:
-- Air Force Radio News;
-- Air Force Television News viewed by more than 18 million people
every two weeks;
-- Air Force Link, reaching 8 million users every month;
-- Air Force Link Plus, the Department of Defense's first daily
multimedia Internet broadcast;
-- Airman Magazine, the flagship publication of the U.S. Air Force;
and
-- Air Force Print News, printed in more than 150 newspapers around
the world
Headquartered in 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 , BroadcastAMERICA.com is building the leading, consumer online entertainment network. With its fully integrated channels dedicated to sports, talk, news, music, film, weather and more, BroadcastAMERICA.com brings a breadth and variety of programming designed to satisfy today's online consumer tapping into the Internet for entertainment. More than 500,000 unique users watch and listen to the web site's audio and video content on a monthly basis for a total of more than one million accesses. Recent BroadcastAMERICA.com Statistics: Under Exclusive Contracts: 402 radio stations, 43 TV news stations, 153 syndicated talk radio shows, 400+ sports radio Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and affiliates Audio/Video Accesses in January 2000: 1.8 million Unique Users in January 2000: 950,000 |
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