DataMark Holding's WorldNow Division Signs An NBC Affiliate and Independent to Its National Network.SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1998-- KSHB-TV in Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). and KMCI-TV in Lawrence, Kan. are WorldNow Affiliates DataMark Holding Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DTAM DTAM Digital Tectonic Activity Map DTAM Double Take Application Manager DTAM Document Transfer, Access and Manipulation (CCITT T.433) DTAM Distribution Total Available Market DTAM Descend to and Maintain ) Thursday announced that its WorldNow Online Network Inc. subsidiary has signed affiliation agreements with two television stations - KSHB-TV, an NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. affiliate station in Kansas City, Mo. and KMCI-TV, an independent station in Lawrence, Kan. DataMark provides turnkey See turnkey system. Internet solutions to companies in a variety of industries. Its WorldNow (www.worldnow.com) subsidiary provides its television station affiliates with both local and national Web-based advertising and commercial revenue opportunities in major content areas such as e-mail, classifieds, music, movies, travel, finance, dining and automotive, among others. WorldNow television station affiliates will promote and drive traffic to their own Web site and their own co-branded WorldNow content sites through on-air television advertising in addition to links off the station Web site pages. "We are pleased to welcome these two quality affiliates to WorldNow," said Stanton D. Jones, president of WorldNow Online Network Inc. "With WorldNow's wealth of content and revenue opportunities and these two station's extremely strong local market brands and community ties, we will have a very dominant Web presence in the Kansas City market." These agreements increase WorldNow's number of affiliate markets under contract to 28, representing over 15% of the total viewing households 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. and an additional 1.4 million in Canada. The company plans on finalizing contracts with 15-20 new affiliates over the next 60 days. About WorldNow DataMark Holding Inc. is an Internet services company specializing in complex Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and content distribution. It utilizes state-of-the-art server, Internet connectivity and database facilities from its Salt Lake City headquarters. Its WorldNow subsidiary (www.worldnow.com) operates an interconnected community of television station Web sites throughout the country. By hosting television station Web sites and providing national content and revenue opportunities, WorldNow obtains free promotional advertising on television. The company recently entered into an agreement to acquire Digital Courier A monospaced typeface originating from the typewriter that is commonly used for letters. It is still considered by many to be the "appropriate" typeface for business correspondence. Technologies (www.dcourier.com), a recognized leader in Internet and Java-based software solutions and owner of WeatherLabs Inc. (www.weatherlabs.com), a leading online weather service company. The company also owns and operates Books Now (www.booksnow.com), one of the Internets leading book retailers. About KSHB-TV KSHB-TV, an NBC affiliate television station in Kansas City, is owned and operated by Scripps Howard Broadcasting Co., a division of The E.W. Scripps Co., which operates 20 daily newspapers; nine network-affiliated television stations; two TV networks, Home & Garden Television and the Food Network; two TV programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists , Cinetel Productions and Scripps Howard Productions; and United Media, a worldwide syndicator and licensor of news features and comics. About KMCI-TV KMCI-TV, an independent television station in Lawrence, is owned by Miller Broadcasting Inc., but is operated under a local marketing agreement by Scripps Howard Broadcasting. CONTACT: DataMark Holding Inc. (WorldNow Online Network Inc.) Mitch The name Mitch can mean:
Fax 801/268-2292 mitch@worldnow.com or KSHB-TV and KMCI-TV James Swinehart, 816/753-4141 |
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