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]