Tribune Media Services to Launch Multiple Purchase Options Through New Online
Catalog
Enhancements to delivery platform increase access to TMS content
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Media Services (TMS), a global
content-licensing agency, today announced at the Online News Association
Conference a new, Web-based content catalog and enhanced delivery platform
(tmsfeatures.com) for print and online publishers, and the mobile and
commercial markets. Through the site, TMS will provide its media customers
with multiple publishing solutions that help deliver quality media products to
their audiences.
TMS' new online catalog offers more than 150 name-brand features. Media
customers, in addition to purchasing these by subscription or as individual
columns and articles, have an option to get access to the entire catalog for
one annual fee. Also, niche and specialty publishers can download and pay for
topic-specific articles and images on the site. Whatever a publisher's
business objectives, TMS can create customized content programs to meet their
needs.
The online catalog, powered by Clickability, includes columnists Garrison
Keillor, Cal Thomas, Arianna Huffington, Rick Steves, Amy Dickinson, Leonard
Pitts, Henry Kissinger, Samantha Power and Wolfgang Puck; McClatchy-Tribune
Information Services, Kiplinger Consumer News and USA Today; Rolling Stone,
New York, Atlantic and Foreign Affairs magazines; and Jumble(R), crossword and
sudoku puzzles. TMS' catalog also features comics, editorial cartoons, photos,
graphics, illustrations and an array of features that inform consumers and
attract advertisers in areas such as advice, health, travel, real estate,
food, entertainment and personal finance.
The TMS delivery platform offers several options based on the publishing
solution. The domestic and international delivery sites provide a secure and
convenient way to find and download subscription content. Customers can
receive content via e-mail, RSS feeds or custom FTP delivery.
TMS' all-inclusive, one-fee access to our entire catalog is designed to
deliver content directly into the publisher's editorial system. This delivery
option contains powerful search capabilities and personalization options that
make finding and saving content easy.
Niche and specialty publishers can access an area of the site where they
can browse and preview topic-specific content (cars, education, employment,
entertainment, family, finance, food, health and fitness, holidays, home and
garden, how-to, lifestyle, outdoors/recreation, parenting, pets, real estate,
seniors and weddings) and then download and purchase text and images with a
credit card.
"TMS has a 92-year history of aggregating and distributing a wide range of
news and features to media customers," said David D. Williams, President and
CEO of TMS. "Our new publishing solutions combined with the online catalog and
delivery platform address the industry needs today."
"We can work with a publisher of any type and any budget level to get them
the content their audiences want, in formats, and via the delivery method they
choose," added Williams.
TMS continues to license its popular cartoon characters, puzzles and
content from renowned creators for print, interactive, TV and film, mobile and
board games, as well as grant permission to reprint any of its content to
websites, newsletters, book publishers and corporations.
About Tribune Media Services
Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading provider of information and
entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media in the United
States and abroad. It distributes TV and movie listings and related editorial
content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates comics, editorial
cartoons, feature articles and opinion columns; creates and distributes a
variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from
national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. TMS also
markets news, features, information graphics and multimedia content to media
clients around the world through the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Queensbury, N.Y., Dallas,
Houston, Milwaukee, Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong and Amman, Jordan, TMS is a
subsidiary of Tribune Company. For more information about TMS and its products
and services, visit http://www.tms.tribune.com.
CONTACT: Media
Jan Guszynski
Tribune Media Services
Ph: 312-222-4717
jguszynski@tribune.com
TMS Sales
Scott Cameron
Tribune Media Services
Ph: 312-222-8697
jscameron@tribune.com
SOURCE Tribune Media Services
media, Jan Guszynski, +1-312-222-4717, jguszynski@tribune.com, or TMS Sales,
Scott Cameron, +1-312-222-8697, jscameron@tribune.com, both of Tribune Media
Services
