10/6/2008 Rev Up Signs Deal with Sagamore Hill Broadcasting
After a very successful trip to the NAB Exchange in September, Rev up just completed a deal with Louis Wall, President of Sagamore Hill Broadcasting. Sagamore Hill is a fairly new group operating stations in Laredo, TX, Cheyenne, WY, Columbus, GA and Montgomery AL. Our partnership will begin with the station in Cheyenne, WY. Both companies anticipate great success, even in these challenging times.
10/2/2008 Post Small Market NAB – How was it?
Small Market NAB proved to be a very successful trip for Dave and Jeff of Rev Up this year. Not only were we able to get in front of a lot of decision makers within the television industry, we were able to sit down with Presidents of media companies, says Jeff Palmer, CEO of Rev Up. We made several contacts that we believe will turn out to be great business partnerships.
10/1/2008 Rev Up heads to Sioux City, IA for Training of BTTV
In keeping with tradition, Rev up heads to Sioux City, IA for our third year of sales presentations. KMEG has proven to be a great partner, with 2 very successful sales events under our belts, we are heading in for our third.
9/24/2008 NAB - Rev Up Heads to Phoenix
It’s that time of year again… time for the Small Market National Association of Broadcasters Exchange to be held In Phoenix, AZ on 9/25, 26 & 27. The event is looking to a great resource for Rev and we’ll certainly keep you up to date with the results!
8/30/2008 Rev Up Signs deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group
After months of negotiation, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Rev Up finally agreed on a revenue partnership. The markets that will launch immediately are Pensacola, FL. - WEAR/WFGX and Columbus, OH – WSYX/WTTE. This partnership really opens the door for a lot of growth potential for both companies. Rev Up continues to grow and expand its market place and at the same time, continues to grow its overall website traffic
8/5/2008 Beyond The TV launches new web series
BeyondTheTV launched a new web series entitled “The 1”. The series is focused around the one television topic that everyone is talking about. Rev Up tapped the talents of Dallas-based video blogger, Brenda Halsey to pen and host the webisodes. “BeyondTheTV’s website has grown tremendously in the last few months with more video clips, full episodes and show related content. This is a great way to offer the site’s fans even more with original programs”, remarked Creative Director Randall Duncan. A new episode can be viewed three times a week at beyondthetv.com.
7/1/2008 KOIN Launches BeyondTheTV & MyLocalLookup
After a very successful market trip by the Rev Up staff, KOIN launches BTTV and MLLU very successfully with 15 businesses partnering to help them grow their business. A two day sales event was held with great success and KOIN continues to add new businesses to both BeyondTheTV and MyLocalLookup. The partnership of Rev Up and New Vision Television is in its early stages however, the partnership looks to be a very successful one!
5/22/2008 Rev Up Expands markets with Young Broadcasting
The ever expanding BeyondTheTV is now growing its partnership with Young Broadcasting by signing a deal with WTEN, and ABC affiliate based in Albany, NY. “Growing our partnership with Young is a huge deal for us” says Jeff Palmer, CEO of Rev. “We have been working with Young Broadcasting for a couple of years and the expansion into additional markets just makes sense for everyone.” It seems Rev will be entering into additional markets with Young in the very near future.
5/19/2008 MyLocalLookup to add New Features
Rev Up has created a new feature within MyLocalLookup. The new feature will be called MyHomeLookup which will allow Realtors to post all of their listed properties within the local search directory. At the same time, MyLocalLookups focus on Hyper-Local continues to expand and to help stations create new solutions for their clients. “It’s all about filling a niche for television stations” says Randall Duncan, CCO of Rev Up. “With The Real Estate addition to MyLocalLookup, we are able to do just that.”
5/2/2008 KOIN, Portland OR. Partners with Rev Up
In the latest news, KOIN in Portland, OR has entered into a partnership with Rev Up to increase their revenue through web based sales applications. KOIN CBS 6 new owners, New Vision Television is looking to expand its local revenue through this new partnership. Finding a solution like BeyondTheTV.com and MyLocalLookup to help our station increase its revenue is the perfect fit for stations – helping both local sales and our platform of internet revenues.
4/23/2008 Gray Television to Switch to New MyLocalLookup
The team at Rev Up has been at it again with a new and improved local search directory called MyLocalLookup.com. The new version allows stations a continuous opportunity to increase their website sales through promotion of the directory. “Businesses can now log on and sign themselves up through the backend” says Jeff Palmer, CEO of Rev Up
1/2/2008 WorldNow partners with Rev Up
WorldNow, a leading provider of Internet technology, content and revenue solutions for over 320 local media Web sites, announced today a partnership with Rev Up. This revenue share partnership will promote Rev Up’s product offerings, BeyondTheTV™ and Local Lookup™ to over 120 of WorldNow’s local sales clients.
“Rev Up’s search and local business directory offerings are two unique programs we can share with our local sales clients,” said Craig Smith, EVP Sales and Distribution of WorldNow. “And partnering with Rev Up parallels our goals of helping our affiliates find new ways of generating non-traditional revenue.”
“In the ever changing world of the Internet - local broadcasters are trying to figure out ways of creating new revenue through online media ... and it’s proven to be very challenging,” said Jeffrey Palmer, CEO of Rev Up. “Rev Up has emerged in the last 2 years as one of the premier media promotions companies within the television industry and partnering with WorldNow will expand our reach exponentially in a short period of time. Not only do we have sales programs that work, they’re supported by great creative, branded advertising, outstanding training and sales materials to support them.”
10/02/2007 Gray Television Hires Rev for Local Search
The team at Rev Up has been brought into the world of Gray Television by signing a deal that would bring their program MyLocalLookup.com into 28 of Grays 30 markets. The concept; consumers today are looking for businesses locally online and on most occasions, the major search engines fall a bit short when it comes to finding local businesses, a term Rev likes to call “being Yahoogled”. Partnering with television stations with local search just makes sense.
The partnership with Gray expands the reach of Rev’s programs exponentially, bringing the total number of Markets Rev is working in to 77. Keep an eye out for the “new” MyLocalLookup.com in the very near future.
