Contact:
Ernest Feiteira
212-445-0754
ernest@employ.com
NEW YORK, NY (April 5, 2006) - The Employment & Career Channel, the leading career-related video programming network, announced today that Emmis Interactive, the Interactive Division of Emmis Communications, one of the nation's top diversified communications companies (NASDAQ: EMMS) plans to launch TECC's video-on-demand and job-listing search engine services across 18 of its radio-station websites in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Austin and Terre Haute, IN.
"We've restructured 'Career Channel' to provide our users more useful content with the intent of providing them with a valuable component for their career search," said Michael Englebrecht, Product Manager at Emmis Interactive. "TECC's job-search and video-search engines are key components of this restructuring and help to make the channel the true resource we've always wanted it to be."
"Emmis Interactive is a top network of radio station websites in the U.S. and also operates several radio stations abroad" commented Ernest Feiteira, COO and General Manager of The Employment & Career Channel. "TECC's library of career video content will now be made available to the more than 2 million unique visitors who visit Emmis Interactive's network of sites each month."
"This partnership exemplifies the strategic direction of our company. We want our content to be ubiquitous via distribution online, on TV, and on handheld devices; programming that is platform agnostic," said Broderick C. Byers, CEO of The Employment & Career Channel.
The Employment & Career Channel service is a hosted content management solution that provides streaming rich media. The videos are free to Emmis' users and are ad-supported by instream TV-like commercials. As part of the launch the NAVY and TLC will by running instream pre-roll ads across the EMMIS Career Video Center network as well as across the rest of www.employ.com 's distribution network. The job-listing search engine searches across thousand of websites, saving users hours of search time. The 18 sites that The Employment & Career Channel power are:
1.
http://hot97.com/CareerChannel2.0/
2.
http://cd1019.com/CareerChannel2.0/
3.
http://987kissfm.com/CareerChannel2.0/
4.
http://power106.fm/CareerChannel2.0/
5.
http://kzla.com/CareerChannel2.0/
6.
http://q101.com/CareerChannel2.0/
7.
http://wlup.com/CareerChannel2.0/
8.
http://power923.fm/CareerChannel2.0/
9.
http://wibc.com/CareerChannel2.0/
10.
http://radionow931.com/CareerChannel2.0/
11.
http://971hankfm.com/CareerChannel2.0/
12.
http://b1057.com/CareerChannel2.0/
13.
http://krox.com/CareerChannel2.0/
14.
http://hot933.fm/CareerChannel2.0/
15.
http://klbjfm.com/CareerChannel2.0/
16.
http://kgsr.com/CareerChannel2.0/
17.
http://hi99.com/CareerChannel2.0/
18.
http://hi99.com/CareerChannel2.0/
About Emmis Communications
EMMIS Communications (NASDAQ: EMMS) is a diversified media corporation with award-winning radio broadcasting, television broadcasting and magazine publishing operations in markets across the country. EMMIS is as well-known for its creative culture as for its operations. EMMIS's people are aggressive, knowledgeable and deeply committed to each of the communities in which they operate. Because employees are the key to success, EMMIS offers strong benefits and incentives, including health, vision, dental and life insurance, discount stock purchase plans and a 401(k) contribution plan. For more information about EMMIS, see our website at www.emmis.com.
Emmis Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employer and one of FORTUNE Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For In America".
About The Employment & Career Channel
The Employment & Career Channel (TECC) is a multimedia company that creates, aggregates, publishes and distributes employment and career development content in a digital video format for television and the Internet. TECC's video programming is highly relevant, informative, entertaining and timely. It attracts hourly and six figure income professionals, which in turn is attracting a broad base of advertisers.
TECC's companion website (www.employ.com) is as an online portal for employment and career information, a real-time means to deliver customized content, and serve as a platform for related e-commerce. For more information about TECC products and services, visit http://www.employ.com .