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Category Investors Date 12/1/2006 |
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FPinfomart Expands Media Monitoring with Newstex Partnership
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| Blogs, Transcripts, Newswires Added to Growing International Portfolio |
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(Toronto) CanWest MediaWorks Inc. announced today an alliance between FPinfomart, the company’s industry leading news and business information service, and Newstex, the Content On Demand™ company, to add blogs, new international sources, and a significant collection of broadcast transcripts to FPinfomart’s extensive media monitoring portfolio. These latest enhancements further strengthen FPinfomart as the one-stop, electronic monitoring service for Canadian professionals who need timely, reliable, in-depth news and business information.
The announcement marks FPinfomart’s entry into the blog monitoring market, a service of increasing importance for more and more businesses as it generates candid and crucial information about their products, services and competitors. Additionally, the alliance adds over 140 international transcript and news sources, including CNN, BBC, CNBC, and a host of other worldwide news feeds. The new sources will be available to customers starting today, December 1 st at FPinfomart.ca, with the exception of blogs, which will be available mid-December.
“This announcement with Newstex signifies a new era for FPinfomart as we enhance our offering to our business customers with comprehensive, trusted news and information feeds from around the world,” said Arturo Duran, President, Interactive and Business Integration, CanWest MediaWorks Inc. “With access to blogs, transcripts, and enhanced international content, FPinfomart customers will benefit from a one-stop source for complete, Canadian and international news and business coverage.”
Through this alliance, Newstex will provide Content On Demand™ - tailored, real-time news and commentary from thousands of branded newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds as well as Blogs On Demand™ - full-text blog content from premier Weblogs in a wide variety of categories.
“CanWest’s FPinfomart.ca service leads the Canadian market because of the company’s keen understanding of how people use information in business and in their personal lives,” said Larry Schwartz, Newstex President. “Delivering our Newstex Newsfeeds to FPinfomart customers is an important component of our strategy to deliver our content through the information products that people rely upon every day.”
FPinfomart, available at FPinfomart.ca, offers unparalleled coverage of news and corporate data and is an essential resource for information professionals, business communicators and knowledge workers. FPinfomart’s strong subscriber base is comprised of government, corporate and non-profit clientele and also provides pay per view services for the general public.
The alliance with Newstex adds to FPinfomart’s existing portfolio of over 275 Canadian news sources and authoritative company profiles, and follows the recent addition of The Globe and Mail as a content provider, which completed FPinfomart’s portfolio of major English Canadian news sources. Other recent additions to the service include broadcast media monitoring and mobile services that allow FPinfomart.ca customers to access content on the go. FPinfomart is a trusted source of news and business information for many businesses across Canada, highly regarded for its 24 hour, seven day a week, proactive media monitoring.
About FPinfomart
FPinfomart is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com), and 26% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (TSX: CWM.UN; www.cwmincomefund.com). CanWest Global Communications Corp., an international media company, is Canada's largest media company and largest publisher of daily newspapers. The Company also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom.
About Newstex
Newstex offers Content On Demand, including tailored, real-time news and commentary from thousands of branded newswires, newspapers, magazines, financial and business sources, official government feeds and blogs. Newstex collects full-text digital news and commentary feeds, standardizes the content format, adds stock ticker symbols, indexes stories using PeopleTickering and topical categories, and instantly delivers the result via easy-to-integrate XML or RSS newsfeeds.
The revolutionary Newstex Blogs On Demand product delivers value-added full-text blog content. Newstex processes blogs in real-time through its NewsRouter TM technology to automatically tag each blog post with key data such as company names, stock tickers, key executives and government officials, and detailed topical categories for distribution to downstream enterprise customers to ensure greater exposure and reach for this valuable content. Blogs On Demand and Content On Demand from Newstex are the fastest ways for content distributors and enterprise customers to cost-effectively integrate full-text premium newsfeeds and the top blogs at reduced cost, minimum risk and optimum ROI. For more information, please visit www.newstex.com
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For more information, please contact:
Tammy Bender
CanWest MediaWorks
David M. Scott
Freshspot Marketing for Newstex
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