CustomWeather Partners with Corus Entertainment; Provides Global Forecasts to 50 Canadian Radio Station Web Sites.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002 CustomWeather, the leading supplier of syndicated weather data, announced today that it has partnered with Corus Entertainment Corus Entertainment Inc. TSX: CJR.B NYSE: CJR is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, advertising and digital audio services, television Inc., owner of 50 radio stations in major markets in Canada. As part of a joint contract that includes Emmis Communications and Corus Entertainment, comprehensive global weather forecasts and reports are delivered to radio station Web sites. Corus Entertainment is Canada's largest radio operator in terms of revenue and audience tuning, reaching nearly 8 million listeners each week. "We're delighted to have a partner like CustomWeather that enables us to present quality weather content for our station Web sites. In addition to the extensive scope of forecasts and reports that they offer, their ability to easily provide their data in English, as well as French, was attractive to us," said John Hayes, President of Radio for Corus Entertainment. The company's 50 radio stations reach nearly 30% of all Canadians over the age of 12 each week, and are consistently rated in the top few stations for their targeted demographic. "Working with Corus has been a pleasure," said Murray Armstrong, Director of Sales and Business Development at CustomWeather. "The scope of our forecasts makes us a good partner for them because their audiences are across Canada. They recognize the value of our ability to provide our forecasts in multiple languages, and in a format that matches their technical requirements." About CustomWeather, Inc. CustomWeather, headquartered in San Francisco, offers syndicated custom weather content, services and applications that are designed to be fully integrated and private-labeled. CustomWeather's geo-coded data feeds are available in desirable formats such as XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. , HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) A specialized version of HTML designed to enable wireless pagers, cellphones and other handheld devices to obtain information from Web pages. HDML was developed by Phone. and ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. . CustomWeather generates over 58,000 unique forecasts worldwide, establishing it as the industry leader for global location-based coverage at both the US and International levels. CustomWeather is the weather supplier for customers around the world including Lycos, Galileo Travel, Go2 Systems, I3 Mobile, FastCast Broadcasting, Liberty Travel and VoltDelta. For more information, visit www.customweather.com or check the weather at www.myforecast.com. About Corus Entertainment Corus Entertainment is a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in both specialty TV and Radio. Corus also owns Nelvana Limited, an internationally recognized producer and distributor of children's programming and products. The Company's other interests include music, television broadcasting and advertising services. A publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. , Corus is listed on the Toronto (CJR CJR Columbia Journalism Review CJR Career Job Reservation CJR Culpeper Regional Airport (airport code, VA) CJR Commodity Jurisdiction Request .B) and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (CJR) Exchanges. Corus' Web site can be found at www.corusentertainment.com. |
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