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AWS Convergence
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Press ReleasesPress > March 13, 2006 Release WPRI-TV and WeatherBug® Partnership Offers Providence Area Viewers the Only Live, Neighborhood-Level Weather Reporting --On-air and Online Providence, RI and Germantown, MD – March 13, 2006 – WeatherBug®, the leading provider of live, local weather information services, and WPRI-TV (CBS Channel 12), today announced the two companies have entered an exclusive, three-year partnership agreement. WPRI is now the only local Providence area television news station to offer viewers access to WeatherBug’s up-to-the-second, live, neighborhood-local weather conditions from 90+ WeatherBug Tracking Stations and 12 WeatherBug Cameras in the Providence area. (Other local stations typically rely upon data from area airport stations that can be up to an hour or more old.) WeatherBug Tracking Stations are located at area schools and businesses throughout Rhode Island. Sites of interest include the Yawgoo Valley Ski Area in Exeter, the Providence Skating Center in Providence and WPRI itself. The WeatherBug Program offers broadcasters the competitive edge in weather reporting and forecasting on-air and online. WeatherBug owns and operates the world’s largest weather network - over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras nationwide - to deliver live, truly local weather content. Broadcast partners are able to showcase live weather conditions right from their viewers’ neighborhood. In addition, broadcast meteorologists are automatically warned of severe weather alerts or dramatic changes in weather conditions – increased wind speed, for instance – providing their viewers precious extra time to prepare and react. In addition, WPRI will also offer viewers WeatherBug reports via their website. As an integral facet of WPRI’s advanced web weather content, the following is now available to website visitors:
“We’re really excited to be the only station in Southern New England offering WeatherBug to our viewers and to users of WPRI.com,” said WPRI-TV News Director Joe Abouzeid. “WeatherBug welcomes Providence’s leading news station, WPRI, to our broadcast family,” said Andy Jedynak, WeatherBug GM and senior vice president. “We are happy to be working with Tony Petrarca’s entire weather team and WPRI. Whether it’s helping local families to plan their day with confidence or giving them advance warning to take shelter from severe weather, our two organizations are committed to making life more fun and the weather forecast more reliable for the entire WPRI viewing area. We know this is only the beginning of a long-term relationship.” WeatherBug has established a variety of ways for consumer and business users to access its rich, proprietary weather information. This includes free and premium versions of its downloadable software application WeatherBug, as well as SMS alerts, a Windows Mobile™ Smartphone application, and on-air distribution through broadcast partnerships with over 100 local television station affiliates. WeatherBug’s commitment to quality content and user experience has established its consistent ranking as one of the top news and information properties on the Internet* and a fiercely loyal and engaged customer base with an extraordinary, 93 percent satisfaction score.* To subscribe to WeatherBug, go to www.weatherbug.com. About WPRI-TVWPRI 12 is owned by Rhode Island based LIN Television. WNAC is owned by Super Towers and operated by LIN Television. WPRI also programs the Pinpoint Weather Station, a 24 hour local weather channel operating on digital TV and on COX Communications in Rhode Island. LIN is one of American's pure play broadcasters owning/operating television stations in New Haven, Connecticut, Norfolk, Virginia, Indianapolis, Indiana, Dayton, Ohio, Toledo, Ohio, Austin, Texas, Decatur, Illinois, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Buffalo, New York and Springfield, Massachusetts. About WeatherBug®WeatherBug ensures that individuals, schools, businesses and government agencies receive the most precise live weather information, the most relevant weather reports, and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard property, lives and to plan with confidence. With 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and over 1,000 cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S., WeatherBug maintains the largest exclusive weather network in the world. The live, local weather conditions are delivered to millions of consumers via the Internet and mobile devices, more than 100 state and local government agencies including the National Weather Service, and to broadcast television stations, schools, and businesses. As such, WeatherBug is the #1 distributor of severe weather alerts to the public. WeatherBug data is unique as it is the only live, neighborhood weather available anywhere. WeatherBug is a brand of AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. # # # Press Contacts:Debra Eisenberg Alyce Menton Joe Abouzeid |
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