CBS4 Boston Announces A-List Winners

Monday, July 10, 2006

More Than 100,000 Votes Determined Boston's Best Businesses cbs4boston.com/alist100 Today, Boston's CBS4Boston.com completed its first annual A-List competition where more than 1,300 local businesses within the Boston 128 loop competed to be named one of Boston's best. More than 100,000 votes determined the A-List Top 100 winners.

To recognize Boston's best businesses, CBS4 will be delivering award packages to the A-List Top 100 winners. All winners will receive special signage, free online promotion, and a complementary gift basket from Dancing Deer Bakery. Each day this week, CBS4Boston.com, will announce the winners in selected categories in a special A-List Top 100 section of the CBS4Boston.com web site. The full list will be available on Friday, July 14. This online resource, including a showcase of more than A-List 1,300 nominees, will be available all year for consumers to find the best local businesses in Boston. The CBS4Boston.com A-List is Boston's only image based city guide.

What is next for the CBS4Boston.com A-List?

• The top three vote-getting businesses in each category will be asked to pick their favorites in the A-List Editors' Picks. CBS4 will announce the A-List Editors' Picks where some of Boston's smartest local business owners pour through the nominees and make their picks for Boston's best.
• Over the next several months, the vote button on the A-List contest section will become a "coupon" button and customers can browse Boston's best businesses to get discounts on the products and services they love.
• CBS4 will showcase winners and categories throughout the year with special promotions to help viewers find the very best Boston has to offer.

CBS4Boston.com's Director of Corporate Development David Cole said, "We envisioned this program as a way to empower local businesses and provide consumers a great online resource. This program created a buzz throughout the Boston business community and significant traffic to cbs4boston.com. We're thrilled that so many businesses signed-up to compete, and we are happy to provide the winners the hard-earned recognition they deserve."

CBS4Boston.com A-List is made possible through a partnership with CityVoter - a Cambridge-based Internet start-up that managed the contest. While online voting results are not scientific, voting results were monitored closely to ensure only valid votes were accepted. CityVoter is a privately-held company in Cambridge, MA. The company's patent-pending Recognition Marketingâ„¢ platform brings consumers and businesses together online. Through partnerships with leading media companies and strategic national advertising partners, CityVoter is working to help outstanding local businesses get the recognition they deserve.

Boston's CBS4 is owned and operated by CBS Television Station (formerly Viacom), one of the largest network-owned station groups consisting of 21 CBS stations, 15 UPN, one WB and two stations not affiliated with major networks.