Cole's Newswire Feb. 11, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 6

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  • BASEVIEW PRODUCTS
    Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced that more than 50 sites began using new or upgraded Baseview products in December.

    Most notable were THE SIGNAL of Santa Clarita, Calif. (10k, morning), which installed 27 NewsEditPro IQue news workstations and 11 pagination workstations, and the MISSISSIPPI PRESS in Pascagoula, Miss. (20k, evening), which added to its existing Baseview editorial system six classified workstations running AdManagerPro.

    Baseview is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

  • BELLATRIX SYSTEMS INC.
    Bellatrix, a supplier of single-copy sales automation products based in Bend, Ore., has announced these recent sales and installations:

    -- INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN, Ontario, Calif. (69k, morning): SINGLE-TRAK on eight routes; installation started in January.

    -- PEORIA (Ill.) JOURNAL STAR (72k, all day): Bellatrix SINGLE-TRAK for newsracks and dealers in the city zone; installation is scheduled for the end of February.

    -- OAKLAND PRESS, Pontiac, Mich. (85k, morning): SINGLE-TRAK System for metro area newsracks; installation is scheduled for late March.

    -- RAPID CITY (S.D.) JOURNAL (31k, morning): Upgrade to COIN WIZARD electronic mechanisms to full data collection in the city zone; installation is planned for mid-April.

  • THE COLE PAPERS
    Listening pays off.

    So reports David M. Cole in the February 1998 issue of THE COLE PAPERS, an issue devoted to January's four industry conferences. The editor and publisher of THE COLE PAPERS covers two of the four confabs, in the process discovering that as someone who often appears as a speaker, it takes effort to stop and listen.

    He's glad he did, as he details industry thinking at the Online Classifieds Industry Symposium in Napa Valley, Calif. and the Harris Publishing Integration seminar in Florida. Two other COLE PAPERS writers tell of sessions earlier in the month -- Correspondent George Powell reports on Macworld in San Francisco and Senior Editor Pete Wetmore recounts SuperConference goings-on from Miami Beach.

    For more about the February issue of THE COLE PAPERS, visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

  • CYBERGRAPHIC SYSTEMS LTD.
    Australia-based Cybergraphic, a supplier of publishing systems with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced its first contract in Europe. Cybergraphic will install 1000 Cyber$ell seats at two related German publishers, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) and Zeitungsgruppe Thuringen (ZGT).

    Cyber$ell, an integrated advertising system that's part of Cybergraphic's Genera family of applications, will replace an Atex system at four central and 120 remote sites. Microsoft Windows NT/SQL databases will run on clustered DEC SMP Alpha Servers.

    In the United States, Cybergraphic sold its new Genera CyberNews and CyberPage editorial software to the SUN NEWS of Myrtle Beach, S.C. (44k, morning). Included are 58 CyberNews reporting and editing workstations, and 10 CyberPage pagination workstations. They will replace an Atex legacy system.

    Cybergraphic is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cybergraphic.com.au/.

  • EDGIL ASSOCIATES INC.
    Edgil, a publishing business systems supplier based in Chelmsford, Mass., has announced the BOSTON HERALD has used Edgil's Recruitment Center product to launch the paper's Resume Center employment service. The service gives a user access to a database of resumes; the database can be searched, and users may post new ones as well. As new resumes come in, Edgil's software matches them to possible prospects.

    Edgil is on the Web at http://www.edgil.com/.

  • GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INC.
    GMTI, a Gannett Co. Inc. subsidiary based in Cincinnati which supplies advertising solutions to the newspaper industry, has announced installations of its Celebro for Real Estate suite of applications.

    Customers include Tucson Newspapers Inc., Tucson, Ariz. (ARIZONA DAILY STAR, 91k, morning, and TUCSON CITIZEN, 42k, evening); RECORD SEARCHLIGHT, Redding, Calif. (35k, morning); THE COLORADOAN, Fort Collins, Colo. (29k, morning); IDAHO STATESMAN, Boise, Idaho (64k, morning); THE TIMES, Shreveport, La. (76k, morning); GREENVILLE (S.C.) NEWS (97k, morning); BURLINGTON (Vt.) FREE PRESS (53k, morning), and THE OLYMPIAN, Olympia, Wash. (38k, morning).

    GMTI is on the Web at http://www.gmti.com/.

  • GETTY COMMUNICATIONS PLC
    Getty, a supplier of images for publication based in London, has announced it will acquire Allsport plc, the sports picture agency based in London and Los Angeles. Included in the transaction -- in which 16.5 million pounds cash and 1.1 million new shares of Getty Images common stock will change hands -- is Allsport's four million-image sports photo archive.

    Getty already owns Tony Stone Images (stock photography), Hulton Getty (a privately owned photo archive), Gamma Liaison (photojournalism) and Energy Film Libraries (stock footage).

    Allsport is on the Web at http://www.allsport.com/.

  • KOZ INC.
    KOZ, an Internet publishing software supplier based in Raleigh, N.C., has announced that Guy Gannett Communications of Portland, Maine, will use KOZ's community web publishing products at its newspaper and television operations in Maine and five other states.

    Community groups will have free use of the KOZ/Community web site features, in return for permitting Guy Gannett to sell advertising and sponsorships next to the groups' content.

  • NEWS TODAY INFORMATION NETWORK INC.
    Texas-based Houston News Today, a provider of on-line content, has announced that it has changed its name to News Today Information Network Inc. "to define further the vision of the company," which is to become a national supplier of content on-line.

    The company's first web site, Houston News Today, has monthly readership of about six million hits a month. It is on the Web at http://www.houstonnewstoday.com/.

  • SOFTAD INC.
    SoftAd, a sales automation software supplier based in Mill Valley, Calif., has announced that it has licensed SoftAd Media SalesExcelerator to the INDIANAPOLIS STAR (224k, morning) and INDIANAPOLIS NEWS (41k, evening).

    SoftAd is on the Web at http://www.softad.com/.

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