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BELO TAPS CLICKSHARE TO MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO
DALLASNEWS.COM'S ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS;

THOUSANDS OF COWBOYS FANS SIGN UP


WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 10, 2001 -- Clickshare Service Corp., a leading Internet transaction platform for digital goods, is handling subscription accounts for DallasNews.com's growing family of electronic newsletters, with the service already live to thousands of Dallas Cowboys fans.

DallasNews.com provides a suite of both free and paid email newsletters for followers of professional and college sports teams such as the Cowboys, the University of Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech universities, as well as "Rick Gosselin's Inside the NFL."

Clickshare is handling customer account management, including all transactional aspects of the subscriptions. Delivery of the product takes place over Internet-based email, via DallasNews.com, the website affiliate of The Dallas Morning News, the 10th-largest U.S. daily newspaper.

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."

About Belo Interactive
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.

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, 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 [R.I.] Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, Calif.) and the Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Texas.). 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, HomeTips.com, the Corpus Christi [Texas] Caller Times, Foster's Daily Democrat [Dover, N.H.], the Concord [N.H.] Monitor, the Sioux City [Iowa] Journal, the Lawrence [Kan.] Journal-World, Cineman Syndicate and others.

Clickshare maintains engineering and administrative offices in Williamstown, Mass., and Portland, Maine. Its investors include Sawgrass Seacoast Investors LLC and private individuals, including founding executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Sun-Times. Its executives, board and advisors include veterans of the publishing and credit-card industries.

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Contacts:
Belo Interactive:
Linda Fisk, 214-977-4017 [linda.fisk@belointeractive.com]

Clickshare:
Edward Bride, 413-442-7718 [bride@clickshare.com]
Bill Densmore, 877-340-0436 [densmore@clickshare.com] [Densmore@clickshare.com]
 

 

 
 

 

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