GalleryWatch to Provide KVUE.com with Political Coverage
"GalleryWatch partners with KVUE to supply real-time coverage of the Texas Legislature"
AUSTIN, Texas, and Washington, DC, November 25, 2002 - GalleryWatchTM, a leading provider of enterprise-wide work flow applications and collaborative tools for real-time monitoring of the legislative and regulatory process in the Texas Legislature and U. S. Congress, has partnered with KVUE.com, Austin's premiere online news provider, to provide select GalleryWatch content on the KVUE website.
GalleryWatch will provide Texas legislative information including Cloak Room articles, committee articles, press releases, and quotes of the day through KVUE.com's "Check It Out" and "State News" links. The coverage supplied by GalleryWatch will increase the relevant legislative content currently available on KVUE.com as well as expand the audience for GalleryWatch's timely coverage of the Texas Legislature. Recognized as the leading news source in Austin, KVUE and its parent company, Belo Interactive, maintain a dominant market share with their websites including KVUE.com, which receives almost 42 million visitors per year.
"I have long admired KVUE and its website, KVUE.com, for its reputable news and political coverage," said GalleryWatch CEO, Betty Otter-Nickerson. "This relationship now brings new exposure and validation to GalleryWatch as the leading provider of real-time online legislative content in Texas."
KVUE.com is a subsidiary of Belo Interactive, Inc., which delivers relevant news to a uniquely educated and affluent Internet audience through twenty-four award-winning websites. The partnership between GalleryWatch and KVUE also includes syndication rights to other sister websites owned by Belo.
"We see the in-depth coverage that GalleryWatch provides as a good match for our own emphasis on comprehensive coverage of the news and local issues," said KVUE.com News and Operations Manager, Jerry White. "GalleryWatch provides in-depth analysis of the Texas Legislature and with their additional eyes and ears, we can expand our reach further and bring more meaning to our coverage both locally and nationally."
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About GalleryWatch.com
GalleryWatch.com provides enterprise-wide workflow applications and collaborative tools for real-time monitoring of the federal and Texas legislative and regulatory processes via the internet and text messaging, and is the most comprehensive and dependable source for federal budget and appropriations information. Additional products and services include voting scorecards to track and analyze Member voting history and patterns, committee transcripts and reports made available through GalleryWatch's partnership with National Journal, and Congressional Research Reports made available through GalleryWatch's partnership with Penny Hill Press. Founded in 1996, GalleryWatch serves over 3,000 government affairs professionals at Fortune 2000 companies, trade associations, law firms, government agencies, lobbying and public relations firms, foreign embassies, and universities. For more information, visit www.gallerywatch.com.
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About Belo Interactive
Belo Interactive, Inc., Belo Corp.'s Internet subsidiary, includes the website operations of Belo's television stations and newspapers, interactive alliances and partnerships, and a broad range of Internet-based products and services. Belo Interactive's Web properties include seven of the 25 most-visited local television-affiliated sites in the United States according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Belo Interactive's newspaper-affiliated sites in Dallas and Providence are the leading local media sites in those markets.
Belo is one of the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of market-leading television, newspaper, cable and interactive media assets. A "Fortune 1000" company with approximately 7,800 employees and $1.4 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 19 television stations (six in the top 16 markets) reaching 13.9 percent of U.S. television households, owns or operates six cable news channels, and manages one television station through a local marketing agreement. Belo publishes four daily newspapers: The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal, The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) and The Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, TX). Belo Interactive's new media businesses include 34websites, several interactive alliances, and a broad range of Internet-based products.
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