Viacom Television Stations Digital Media Group Partners With FinancialContent, Inc. to Bring Financial Data and Business Applications to Its CBS Station Websites
Market Wire, July, 2005
The Viacom Television Stations Digital Media Group has partnered with FinancialContent, Inc. (OTC BB: FCON) to bring online financial data to its newly designed CBS station websites as part of the previously announced "Always On" digital media initiative. FinancialContent will give Viacom Television Station's website users access to online financial data including stock quotes and charts, SEC filings, corporate profiles, world market indices, historical data, financial tools and more to each of the Viacom Television Station Group's websites.
Visitors to each of the newly designed and re-launched websites will now have access to current, local business information on the station's homepage. FinancialContent's information will be supported by each television station's broadcast and broadband video business updates, creating a very unique and powerfully informative financial and business portal.
"Viacom Television Stations Digital Media Group achieved continuity in regional customization across their network of broadcast television websites by working with FinancialContent," said Wing Yu, CEO of FinancialContent, Inc. "Our comprehensive suite of financial data and tools provides the highest quality of financial news and information available to this group of websites."
"In today's quickly evolving business world, it is more important than ever for us to provide the most accurate, real-time information to our users," said Jonathan Leess, President and General Manager, Viacom Television Stations Digital Media Group. "The integration of our station's local business reports with the financial information that FinancialContent can provide serves as a valuable resource to our local consumers."
The group plans to re-launch websites for all of its CBS stations, including wjz.com (Baltimore) the week of July 25 and wcbstv.com (New York) on August 8. The station websites in Salt Lake City (kutv.com), Minneapolis (wcco.com), Denver (cbs4denver.com), San Francisco (cbs5.com) and most recently, Chicago (cbs2chicago.com), have already launched. In total, 17 CBS stations will re-launch their websites in 2005, followed by UPN stations in 2006.
About The Viacom Television Stations Group
The Viacom Television Stations Group consists of 40 stations, including 21 CBS, 16 UPN and three stations not affiliated with major networks.
About FinancialContent
FinancialContent is a leading content solution provider specializing in the integration and delivery of financial data and tools into Web sites, corporate intranets and print media. The Company's flagship product, Studio 3.5, enables companies to build turnkey financial channels complete with stock quotes, charts, news, company profiles, real-time SEC filings, historical data and more. The Company's mission is to empower its clients with the ability to customize and manage their own deployments. With over 400 deployments worldwide, FinancialContent is rapidly growing its client base to include banks, brokerages, credit unions, and application service providers, as well as diversified media businesses and Fortune 500 companies. For more information, please visit http://www.financialcontent.com. FinancialContent is publicly traded on the over-the-counter market under the ticker symbol FCON.
Press Contacts: Dana McClintock (VTSG) 212/975-1077 Email Contact Monique Handabaka (FinancialContent) 650/837-9850 Email Contact
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