Zap2it.com Fall TV Preview Launches With Daily Updates

Zap2it.com Fall TV Preview Launches With Daily Updates

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Zap2it.com ( http://www.zap2it.com/ ) is enhancing its widely-praised interactive Fall TV Preview with a daily blog that covers the successes and failures of the fall TV season as it unfolds.

Acclaimed for innovative coverage in previous years by the entertainment press, the 2005-2006 edition of the Preview again provides a full schedule of premiere dates for new and returning network shows, and network-by-network program descriptions, as well as a guide to cable programming. New this year, Zap2it's staff writers will file daily updates about the ups and downs of the new season.

Zap2it.com, is one of the leading sources of entertainment information online. Produced by Tribune Media Services, the site offers comprehensive movie theater schedules, TV listings and entertainment news and reviews to approximately 2.5 million unique visitors per month.

"The Fall Preview guide has become an essential tool for Zap2it.com users," said managing editor Brill Bundy. "This year we've built it around a 1950s style B-movie alien invasion, and it's jam-packed with information about network and cable shows, along with what the Zap2it.com staff thinks are the standouts of the season."

Zap2it.com critics offer their picks in the "Best and Worst" and "Ones to Watch" sections. "Familiar Faces" provides an extensive list of the players we'll be seeing this season, and the places we've seen them before. Rounding out the preview is "Know Your Aliens," about the current crop of shows with otherworldly elements.

Many TV favorites are returning (although sometimes to different nights and/or times), plus there's a whole slew of new programming to sample. The Daily Guide blog ( http://blog.zap2it.com/ ) will complement Zap2it.com's regular coverage and engage the audience of TV-fanatics with daily news, ratings, reviews and best bets in brief. The blog will run through October 10.

Added Bundy: "Even the most devoted fan can't watch all shows at all times, so this year we've added the Daily Guide to keep TV aficionados updated on what not to miss, and what doesn't make the grade."

About Tribune Media Services Entertainment Products Division

Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading provider of print, online and on-screen entertainment listings and editorial information to newspapers and online media, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. Offering a full line of enhanced entertainment information products and services, TMS' TV information clients include Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, New York Times, USA Today, TiVo and Microsoft. TMS collects information from more than 16,000 broadcast, cable and satellite sources worldwide. Its newspaper, cable and satellite program magazines reach more than 30 million households in over 50 major markets on a weekly and monthly basis. Additionally, TMS' passive program guide (PPG) is available in 9 million homes worldwide.

TMS print and online advertising networks provide opportunities to reach nearly 70 million people, through major market newspaper TV supplements and Zap2it.com. TMS Movies collects data from more than 37,000 movie theater screens in North America to create and market print and electronic movie information products and services. TMS Movie information clients include Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corp., Clear Channel Interactive, Cox Communications, Inc., Los Angeles Times and others. TMS Movies is also the licensing agent for ticketing services from Fandango, the nation's largest online and phone movie ticketing outlet.

Additionally, TMS offers Zap2it.com, a leading entertainment information website for TV and Movie listings and editorial, and information on the latest video and DVD releases.

For more information about TMS, visit ( http://www.tribunemediaentertainment.com/ ).

Kristy Bremer Tribune Media Services 323-660-9004 kbremer@tribune.com

Mark Yamada Zap2it.com 310-452-6020 myamada@Zap2it.com

Source: Zap2it.com

CONTACT: Kristy Bremer of Tribune Media Services, +1-323-660-9004, kbremer@tribune.com , or Mark Yamada of Zap2it.com, +1-310-452-6020, myamada@Zap2it.com

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