Entertainment
Entertainment contains automatically-updated content from ARA, saving your newspaper time and resources. The portal offers additional content such as entertainment news, local movie theater show times and a movie guide!
Movie times, box office listings and entertainment news are provided.
Travel content powered by ARAcontent.
Fun & Games include Flash-based, interactive games powered by TinBu.
The Basics
Movie times, games, and travel news is provided on your site. Set up Entertainment portal via frame set, direct link or RSS feed for no cost. The content is automatically updated on a regular basis on your Web site by ARA and Astrology.com. Access to movie synopses, trailers and entertainment news. Target youth demographics with content they’re already looking for online. Enhance your Web site’s local entertainment by flowing in entertainment news, Top 10 Box Office hits and movie times.
Revenue Opportunities
Additional traffic to your site will earn more advertising revenue. Sell a sponsorship at the top of your portal page near your newspaper logo. Sell Top Ads to local theaters and video stores. Suggest they include coupons to further drive traffic to the section.
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Product Features
Local theater listings & show time lookup
Search local movie show times via a link or a zip code search. Movie references within the listings link back to the movie guide page. Theater listings are also provided.
Top 10 Box Office
Displays the weeks ten highest grossing films. The listings further link to the movie’s guide page.
The Entertainment portal provides your newspaper’s Web site with frequently-updated, valuable Entertainment content.
For more features, visit www.townnews.com/ solutions/entertainment/ features/
Entertainment News
Content covers celebrity interviews, highlights from award shows, Q & A’s with stars, gossip columns and more.
Movie Guide
Movies are listed by theater and include playing time. A zip code search lets readers change location. By clicking on the movie’s title, users are provided with an in-depth analysis of the film. This includes plot synopses, trailers, photos, official Web site links, ratings, release dates, run times, genres, cast lists, producers and directors.
Fun & Games
Sudoku, Crashdown, Mission Mars, Rural Racer, Verti Golf 2 and Commando are just some of the Flash-based games, provided by TinBu, that can be played on Entertainment.TownNews.com.
Horoscopes
Powered by Astrology.com, horoscopes give readers an opportunity to get personalized horoscopes, as well as a wide range of other astrology information.
Travel
Travel information is provided by ARAcontent, a copyright-free source for newspapers. Information found in this section includes vacation hot spots, planning tips, budgeting advice and more. Also driving traffic to this section are flight, hotel and rental car searches powered by Travelocity.
Food
Keep up on the latest cooking trends by providing your readers with great recipes, tips and baking secrets provided by ARAcontent.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who visits the entertainment site?
Not only does the Entertainment portal offer additional content for your readers, it has the potential of attracting different types of readers from those that normally visit your Web site. Currently, the majority of the readers who visit the Entertainment page are 35-49-yearold individuals. The site attracts a more affluent audience who tend to have families with no children in the household. Also, there is a high index of graduates and post-graduates who visit this site on a consistent basis. Source: www.quantcast.com
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How can I add this to my site?
to have your question answered.
For more FAQs, visit Free Access Points www.townnews.com/ 1. Just link to Entertainment.TownNews.com. If you were already linking to this, you solutions/entertainment/ already have the entertainment portal. features/ 2. Add the movie search token to your Newsys pages. Javascript can be provided to sites not using Newsys. 3. Add the Entertainment.TownNews.com RSS feed to your site. Hosted Options 1. Set up the exact look of Entertainment.TownNews.com on your Web site.* 2. Opt to have tokens added to your site’s templates that display the “check movie times” magnet, Top 10 Box Office results and entertainment news.*
* Additional customization can be done for an hourly design fee.
Can I add my own newspaper’s content to the section?
Your newspaper can create your own entertainment section if your site is hosted on the Newsys or BLOX platform and have it link to the TownNews.com entertainment portal page.
Is content archived?
Content provided by ARAcontent is not archived. All content on the entertainment portal is non-caching and automatically updated. If you’re hosting entertainment on your own site, your local entertainment news may be archived.
How often is content updated?
Content provided — entertainment news, top box office and movie guide — is updated multiple times per day, Mondays through Fridays. ARAcontent’s travel and food content is updated frequently, as new content is available to be published.
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For more information on this or any other TownNews.com product, contact your regional sales manager. Main TownNews.com Office: 800-293-9576 • E-mail: info@townnews.com
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