Interactive Online Guide Launches with a Contest Inviting Locals to Vote for their Favorite Places to Eat, Drink, Shop and Experience Knoxville

Knoxville, TN - February 16, 2009

WTNZ Fox 43 today announces the launch of Knoxville's Best Guide, an innovative and interactive online guide featuring the insider's scoop on the best ways to experience and enjoy Knoxville.  The guide kicks off today with the "WTNZ Fox 43's HOT LIST" contest, powered by CityVoter. During the "WTNZ Fox 43's HOT LIST" competition, people can logon to WTNZfox43.com to nominate and vote for their favorite businesses.  They can also share photos, comments, and more.

The "WTNZ Fox 43's HOT LIST" guide is a premier shopping destination for descriptions, photos, maps, and real-life customer comments on top local businesses. The "WTNZ Fox 43's HOT LIST" guide gives local businesses a platform to easily create, manage, and promote their own web content and gives consumers the power to choose the best businesses and post comments, photos, and more.

The "WTNZ Fox 43's HOT LIST" guide offers local businesses a free, dynamic online presence and easy-to-use tools to manage their listings, saving them time and money, and connecting them with customers. The guide is available all year and offers reviews and photos posted by customers, enhancing the value of a local business listing-both for the business and for those searching for detailed information about metro Knoxville's top local businesses.

In this economy, innovation and market interaction will be key to every business's success.  Using our website and promotional strength to introduce new ideas is part of our strategy and dovetails nicely with this partnership" said John Hayes, General Manager, WTNZ Fox 43. "The CityVoter program is a great fit for this market. CityVoter is very popular in other markets because it offers fun to website visitors and a high degree of exposure to a wide variety of businesses. We're eager to kick things off here in Knoxville."

"We're very excited to be working with WTNZ and welcome Raycom into the CityVoter network of media partners," said CityVoter CEO Josh Walker.  "We will work hard to engage the Knoxville community and build great local content WTNZ can use all year long to drive audiences back to their website."

About CityVoter, Inc.

CityVoter.com.is the leading social platform for the insider's scoop.  CityVoter.com allows insiders who know a city best to share their insight with information, ratings, and reviews on everyday decisions, because everyone strives for the best decisions in all aspects of their lives not just the big events. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CityVoter.com helps leading media companies like Barrington, Belo, FOX, Hearst-Argyle, McGraw-Hill, Post-Newsweek and the San Francisco Chronicle, a division of Hearst Corporation to engage and monetize their local audience, successfully converge with digital media, and immerse their brand into the experience.  CityVoter.com's insider's scoop on everyday decisions takes the guessing game out of daily life.  For more information, visit www.CityVoter.com.

About Raycom Media

FOX43 (WTNZ-TV) is a Raycom Media Station.  Raycom, an employee-owned company, is one of the nation's largest broadcasters and currently owns and/or operates 42 television stations in 18 states. Raycom stations cover more than 10.6 % of U.S. television households and employ 3500 individuals in full and part-time positions.

In addition to television stations, Raycom owns Raycom Sports (a marketing, production and events management and distribution company in Charlotte, North Carolina); Raycom Post (a post production facility in Burbank, CA), Broadview Media (a post production/telecommunications company based in Montgomery, AL), and CableVantage (a cable advertising sales group based in Columbia, SC).

Contact:

  • Michele Davis
  • CityVoter, Inc.
  • 617-741-3100