Internet Broadcasting Sites Experience Record Traffic as Winter Storms Sweep Across the Midwest and Northeast.MINNEAPOLIS -- Internet Broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems), or IBS, is a provider of television station web sites. IBS hosts over 70 local stations' sites, and co-produced NBCOlympics. , the nation's largest publisher of local news online, today announced that it experienced record traffic on Tuesday, February 13, due to winter weather that swept across the Midwest and Northeast. 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. real-time analytics from WebTrends On Demand, Internet Broadcasting's national network of more than 70 TV station Web sites received more than 35 million pageviews, easily eclipsing the network's previous record set on August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. made landfall land·fall n. 1. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight. 2. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight. . Many Internet Broadcasting sites such as WBALTV.com in Baltimore, TheBostonChannel.com and WLWT.com in Cincinnati offered "Special Edition" online storm coverage showing advisories, watches, and severe weather warnings, plus listings of official school closures, delays and dismissals. Other sites such as Hartford's WFSB.com displayed live video streams of their on-air storm coverage, providing up-to-the-minute news on the changing weather conditions. According to data from WebTrends, Internet Broadcasting's weather sections experienced a five-fold increase over typical daily levels, netting 12.5 of the day's 35 million pageviews. In addition, twice as many video streams were viewed compared to daily averages. Many Internet Broadcasting sites experienced large traffic spikes for slideshows of viewer-submitted weather pictures, achieving their own daily traffic records. "When breaking news or weather affects people's daily The People's Daily (Chinese: 人民日报; Pinyin: Rénmín Rìbào), a daily newspaper, is the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published worldwide lives, America turns to their trusted local news source," said Julie Burrows, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition of marketing, research and product development, Internet Broadcasting. "Our record traffic is a testament to the strength of our TV partner brands, as well as Internet Broadcasting's 10-year history of delivering online breaking news, weather alerts, school closures and traffic information." Traffic numbers represent an aggregation across Internet Broadcasting's entire national network of TV station Web sites. About Internet Broadcasting Internet Broadcasting is the largest national platform of TV station Web sites. The company publishes more than 70 sites for America's premier broadcasters: 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. , Cox Television, Hearst-Argyle, The McGraw Hill Companies, Post-Newsweek and Meredith Broadcasting. Each month, one in every 12 online Americans visits an Internet Broadcasting site, making it one of the nation's largest online news publishers. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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