Internet Broadcasting
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| Internet Broadcasting | |
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| Type | Unknown |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Key people | Reid Johnson (Founder, President & CEO) Peter E. Stilson (COO) Julie Burrows (Executive VP) Steve Johansen (CFO) |
| Area served | United States (Nationwide) |
| Industry | Online News & Information Web Design Broadcast Television |
| Products | Online News Publishing |
| Website | www.ibsys.com |
Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems or IBS) is the largest national platform of TV station web sites. The company publishes over 70 sites for America's premier broadcasters: NBC, Cox Enterprises, Hearst-Argyle, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Post-Newsweek Stations, The E.W. Scripps Company, Capitol Broadcasting Company, Meredith Corporation and for the time being, Media General. Each month, one in every 12 online Americans visits an Internet Broadcasting site, making it one of the nation's largest online news publishers. In addition, Internet Broadcasting co-produced NBCOlympics.com for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with offices in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. For more information, visit: http://www.ibsys.com
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[edit] Key Notes
The company began with www.Channel4000.com in Minneapolis, originally associated with that market's CBS station WCCO-TV, and rapidly became an ultimate success. That website is now a standalone operation, and WCCO has since relaunched on a separate website.
With 12 million monthly visitors, IBS is the third largest source of online news and information as ranked by ACNielsen. As the largest publisher of local online news, the company plans to continues its growth with the nationally available News That Hits Home.
Internet Broadcasting is known to win multiple awards annually. One example, they won the National Edward R. Murrow Award for Large Market Television Station Web Site of the Year in 2005 -- The website was NBC10.com, furnished for Philadelphia NBC O&O WCAU.
[edit] Internet Broadcasting Member Stations
*The Albuquerque and Oklahoma City markets are tied for 45th, with 662,380 TV households each.
In Canada, IBS produced the original version of GlobalTV.com, which was a set of individual station websites rather than a network website, starting in early 1999. In fall 2001, less than two years after their launch, these were integrated into the more successful canada.com portal, which Global's parent CanWest Global has acquired as part of the Southam newspaper chain. CanWest remained an investor in IBS through the mid-2000s.
[edit] Company Staff
Note: Listed in alphabetical order by last name and all names in bold are specified members of the Board of Directors.
- Dave Abbott - Chief Technology Officer
- Kevin Abramson - Director of Marketing
- Dave Buonfiglio - Vice President of Local Sales
- Julie Burrows - Executive Vice President
- Nancy Cassutt - Vice President of Content
- Alan Frank - President, Post-Newsweek Stations
- Steve Goldstein - Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, University of Minnesota Foundation
- Adam Gordon - Vice President of National Advertising Sales
- Harry T. Hawks - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Hearst-Argyle
- Steven A. Hobbs - Executive Vice President & Chief Legal and Development Officer, Hearst-Argyle
- Steve Johansen - Chief Financial Officer
- Reid Johnson - Founder, Chief Executive Officer & President
- Terry Mackin - Executive Vice President, Hearst-Argyle
- Ken Rees - Senior Vice President & Launch Director
- Clayton Rose - Vice President of Business Development
- Jim Simons - Managing Director, Split Rock Partners
- Peter E. Stilson - Chief Operating Officer
[edit] Contact Information
[edit] Staff Numbers and E-Mail Addresses
- Adam Gordon, VP/NAS (Advertising Sales and Information Only)
- Phone: 1.646.562.5918
- Fax: 1.646.562.5920
- E-Mail: agordon@ibsys.com
- Clayton Rose, VP/BD (Business Development Opportunities Only)
- Phone: 1.646.562.5905
- Fax: 1.646.562.5920
- E-Mail: clayton@ibsys.com
- Kevin Abramson, D/M (Press Inquiries Only)
- Phone: 1.651.365.4221
- E-Mail: kabramson@ibsys.com
[edit] Office Numbers
- Minneapolis: 1.651.365.4000
- New York City: 1.646.562.5900
- Los Angeles: 1.323.966.5012
- Chicago: 1.312.924.1307
- San Francisco: 1.415.281.2450
[edit] External links
- http://www.ibsys.com - Internet Broadcasting Homepage
