Special Services

Online Rights | ComicsPlus | Pagination | Scripps Howard News Service | SHNS Feature Fronts | Gemstar VCR+ Plus Program

Online Rights

Offer visitors to your Web site the same daily comic strips and columns that appear in your newspaper! Add award-winning editorial commentary from top journalists. The same geographic exclusivity rules apply to the Web as they do in print. Most comics or columns that currently appear in your paper are available to you for your Web site. And, since space is virtually limitless on the Internet, you may consider adding a few newer features that you may not have been able to find space for in your newspaper. The potential for advertising revenue for your paper's site is tremendous when you offer readers the columns and cartoons they enjoy in your print newspaper and extra features you might not have the space for in print. For rates and availability, please contact your territory sales rep.

ComicsPlus

ComicsPlus is a subscription service of popular features carefully chosen for newsletters. The service provides relevant material without the costly reprint fees. ComicsPlus offers a package of comic strips, columns, editorial cartoons, comic panels, puzzles and other features selected to appeal to newsletter readers. ComicsPlus is available every other month as a hard copy feature or as ComicsPlus Deluxe every month via the Internet. Hundreds of companies and organizations have used ComicsPlus to make their publications stand out from the clutter. Rates are available for non-profit and for-profit companies. For more information, please contact Heather Penn at 800-221-4816 or 212-293-8605.

Pagination

United Media and CanWest Editorial Services provide high quality paginated comics pages with an editorial focus to newspapers in the United States. CanWest Editorial Services, located in Hamilton, Ontario, supplies independent pagination services for comics, sports, agate and stock tables to newspapers in the U.S. and Canada, offering the most reliable pagination service available at the most reasonable cost. CanWest’s technical expertise and their commitment to editorial quality are unmatched. CanWest's pagination business involves the composition and delivery of newspaper pages, particularly comics pages, on a daily or weekend basis. The comics and features (puzzles, crosswords and columns) are laid out according to a newspaper's template using a pagination software program. The template includes the font, headers and layout of comics and features pages. Once the template is created, the features are programmed to flow into the set pages every day, requiring minimal time and labor and reducing the potential for errors. United Media markets and sells the pagination service to newspapers and handles customer service. CanWest Editorial Services paginates and delivers the pages.

Scripps Howard News Service

One great news service combines 125 years of excellence in reporting, writing and design with the hottest features from America's fastest-growing television networks. Scripps Howard News Service makes sense of the news, the trends and the styles in ways that serve today's readers.

SHNS Stories and Columns:
Look to SHNS for behind-the-scenes coverage of Washington and world events, profiles of people making a difference and stories that look ahead. We guarantee stories you won't see anywhere else.

SHNS finds the local angle that brings these topics home to where your readers live: Education, Health and Science, Environment/Sprawl, Home and Garden, Food, Fine Living, Business, Entertainment, Family, Homeland Defense, Hispanic issues, Money/Personal Finance, Personal Technology, Religion and Sports.

SHNS Photos and Graphics:
SHNS provides news and feature photographs and informational graphics to accompany daily stories, along with paginated pages for special news events. All SHNS photos are archived in a searchable database on our deadline-friendly Web site at www.shns.com.

Features. News. Sports. Opinions and Editorials. Photos. Graphics. Special Packages. Editorial Cartoons. http://www.shns.com

Scripps Howard Feature Fronts

Scripps Howard News Service offers a variety of high-quality Feature Fronts. We offer weekly stories and photos on Health and Fitness, Food and Auto.

Gemstar VCR+ Plus Program

Gemstar's VCR Plus+® instant programming system is a world standard for VCR programming. The VCR Plus+ system allows a user to record a television show simply by entering a number -- the PlusCode® number -- printed in television-program guides. The PlusCode numbers are published by more than 1,700 newspapers and television-program guides worldwide, with a combined circulation of more than 300 million. The VCR Plus+ system has been licensed to virtually every major VCR and DVD recorder manufacturer. VCR Plus+ revolutionized VCR recording with its easy, error-free coding system. VCR Plus+ users consult their local newspaper TV listings for the VCR Plus+ PlusCode(R) number printed next to their favorite program. When that PlusCode number is entered into a VCR Plus+ equipped device, the show will be recorded. It is as easy as dialing a telephone. VCR Plus+ continues its strong performance into the digital age. This year, nearly a dozen DVD recorder manufacturers have included VCR Plus+ in their new equipment.