Attention GA Companies... It's TIME To Get Your News To ANN!
The 2009 rendition of AOPA's
annual gathering is nearly upon us, and, if history is
any indicator, it's likely those of you in the GA sector may
have some news/announcements to make.
The Aero-News Network, the aviation world's DAILY/REAL-TIME news
and information service, will sport an expert assemblage of ANN's
top journalists. Several staffers, including ANN
Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell (who has some interesting test-flights
and stories in the works for this year), have been
assigned to generate dozens of stories about the event, and to work
on many more for future distribution to the hundreds of thousands
of people (all over the world) who read, view or listen to ANN
every day, as well as the many International syndication partners
we work with.
'Want to make a timely impact?
As usual; ANN's team of expert aero-journalists will be covering
the event from top to bottom; and we'd like to let you lead the
news, with your announcements in Aero-News on the day your news
breaks, rather than a day late. We're inviting you to send your
advance news and announcements to us; with the date (and the time
-- Eastern Time -- if critical) you plan to release the
information. Our news publication system can be set to release
stories within a second of a scheduled release time, so we can
honor embargo agreements with uncanny accuracy (and yes, unlike a
number of other so-called news services, we keep our word and
honor agreed embargo requests). This way, we can help you
reach the largest number of potential readers, as fast as
possible.
We would like to invite you to submit your press materials and
news packages to us prior to the start of the event in order to
allow our team to do as much advance preparation as possible and to
get a feel for the stories that will be prominent this year. The
sooner we get such data, the more we can do with it, and the more
likely it is that you'll find yourself featured in a future ANN
newscast, Audio Aero-Cast or Aero-TV Webcast. Submissions are
strongly encouraged by E-mail though postal "snail mail" is
acceptable so long as it is received in our office ASAP. No
aviation entity currently gets to as many people, every day, as ANN
is doing now, so we encourage you to get in contact with us if you
think you might have a story idea or a subject worth covering.
If you have any story ideas or suggestions as to how we might
augment our coverage of this event, please be sure to bring it to
our attention ASAP, so that we make the proper assignments for
suitable stories.
ANN's Special Event coverage has been a distinguishing feature
of our organization since DAY ONE. No one does as much with special
coverage of aviation's pivotal events as ANN, and we continue to
set the bar higher each time we tackle an event. It's a tough,
exhausting, brutally intensive process -- and read by hundreds of
thousands of Aero-News readers all over the world.
Of special interest, this year, is the continuation and
upgrading of ANN's tremendously popular Aero-TV programming. As you
may know, ANN introduced the aviation world to Aero-TV at
AirVenture 2007 -- and the business hasn't been quite the same
since. The very conservative 'beta' version of Aero-TV resulted in
the production of over 20 Video Aero-Casts during the week-long
event and the shooting and production of dozens more. Amazingly,
there were several hundred thousand video views in the first 2
weeks of our Beta presentation.
Since then, HUNDREDS of DAILY Aero-TV news and feature programs
have been disseminated to the world through nearly 100 syndication
partners worldwide… resulting in MILLIONS of Video views and
downloads throughout the globe.
If you want concrete proof of the power of Aero-TV Special Event
programming, you have only to look over the work our teams did at a
number of other special events. NO OTHER news organization offers
the hundreds of online and syndicated stories, news-feeds,
Aero-Casts (audio) or Aero-TV programming that ANN produced and NO
ONE offered near the quality of product our teams produced.
Look over our programming carefully… each episode
is produced by journalists with solid reporting credentials,
steadfast ethical standards, extraordinary expertise and completed
to the highest standards seen in the aviation journalism
industry… bar none. These Aero-Video products can be played
on your laptop or PC as well as downloaded to a Video iPod, PDA (or
other video device) for viewing at a later time.
Once again, please remember that ANN's Aero-TV Aero-Casts are
HIGH-QUALITY video products shot in HDV (no kidding, see for
yourself at http://www.aero-tv.net), and produced by
expert aviation and video journalists -- if YOU are going to be
seen, featured or interviewed by anyone in the aviation world to
best effect, make sure that you are dealing with the Aero-News or
Aero-TV!
So… since ANN will be reporting LIVE from AOPA2009,
and if you have news item worthy of a story, or Aero-Cast, we
urge you to get in touch, RIGHT AWAY, with ANN's Jim Campbell, for
possible consideration.
If you need any additional detail, feel free to contact ANN's
Publisher, Jim Campbell, directly at publisher@aero-news.net.
Our main office number is 863-299-8680. Jim's cell number is
863-860-5790, though the toll-free 800-356-7767 number will forward
to him when away from the office.
Here's what we'd like you to help us with:
Please send us (to news@aero-news.net)
-
Your advance announcement, with as
much background as you can provide us.
- In the absence of an advance announcement, a mutually agreeable
appointment or briefing time by which we can work with you, as
early as possible, to get the requisite information on news you
plan to release at AOPA2009.
- Information as to the availability of B-Roll or other video
footage... or your assistance in helping us gather same prior to
the beginning of AOPA 2009.
- Important breaking news may allow us to dispatch a mobile news
team to your location to gather advance B-Roll and stock footage in
order to properly prepare for the release of such news.
- A photo, or photos (the more, the better -- .jpg
preferred).
- The requisite quotes from the responsible person in your
organization or the chance to interview them for same.
- The authorized release date (and specific time, in EDT, if time
sensitive) of your submission.
- Booth/display numbers/ID or other location information.
- Name and number(s) of your contact person(s) (and cell number,
if possible).
We'll take it from there!
Thanks -- we'll see you at the show!