Mainstream Data Acquires Global Content Company Newscom, LLC

SALT LAKE CITY, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Mainstream Data announced today that it has acquired global content provider Newscom, LLC, from its prior owner, a 50/50 joint venture between Tribune Media Services, a subsidiary of Tribune Company, and The McClatchy Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 1985, Newscom, LLC, (http://www.newscom.com/) is a leading provider of high-quality content to the global publishing community, offering its customers one-stop access to more than 19 million rights-managed and royalty-free photos, graphics, illustrations, news stories, and features created by the world's foremost publishers. Newscom represents more than 115 information partners, including the Agence France Press, the BBC, Deutsche Presse Agentur, Dorling Kindersley, Getty Images, Jupiterimages, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, Reuters and Splash News.

"Newscom has a powerful brand and a stellar reputation for providing outstanding content and superior customer service," said Scott E. Calder, President and CEO of Mainstream Data. "The marriage of Mainstream's first-class data delivery services with Newscom's unparalleled photos, graphics and related content is great news for customers. Publishers worldwide will benefit from access to the content they need, when they need it, and now delivered via the most robust and reliable networks available anywhere."

"At Newscom, we strive every day to provide our customers in the publishing community with the most compelling content available, and to deliver that material to them in a manner that best suits their needs," said Bill Creighton, Newscom's General Manager. "In addition to continuing to improve our current platform, Mainstream will provide Newscom the development resources and support infrastructure needed to create, manage and deliver our content directly to the desktops and into the workflow of our customers around the world."

Newscom will operate as an independent and wholly owned subsidiary of Mainstream Data and will remain headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. The company will also open a sales office in New York City later this summer.

About Mainstream Data, Inc.

Mainstream Data is a leading global content delivery solutions provider, offering a comprehensive range of services for the collection, distribution, and display of digital media. Since 1985, Mainstream Data's "No Compromise Digital Networks" have delivered breaking news, real-time stock quotations, digital images, audio, and video to subscribers around the world for customers that include Bloomberg, Dialog (a Thomson Company), The European Pressphoto Agency, Technicolor Digital Cinema, IDC ComStock, and Reuters. Mainstream provides DVB satellite broadcast services, two-way VSAT networks, terrestrial content delivery, and installation and maintenance services worldwide. For more information about Mainstream, please email us at press@mainstreamdata.com.

About The McClatchy Company

The McClatchy Company is the third largest newspaper company in the United States, with 31 daily newspapers and approximately 50 non-dailies. McClatchy-owned newspapers include The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, the (Fort Worth) Star-Telegram, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer, and The (Raleigh) News & Observer. In addition, McClatchy has a robust network of internet assets, including leading local websites in each of its daily newspaper markets, offering users information, comprehensive news, advertising, e-commerce and other services. The company also owns and operates McClatchy Interactive, an interactive operation that provides websites with content, publishing tools and software development; Real Cities (http://www.realcities.com/), the largest national advertising network of local news websites and 14.4% of CareerBuilder, the nation's largest online job site. McClatchy also owns 25.6% of Classified Ventures, a newspaper industry partnership that offers classified websites such as http://www.cars.com/ and http://www.apartments.com/. McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.

About Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services (TMS), a subsidiary of Tribune Company , is a leading provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media in the United States and abroad. It distributes TV and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates comics, editorial cartoons, features and opinion columns; creates and distributes a variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. TMS also markets news, features, information graphics and multimedia content to media clients around the world through McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information, visit http://www.tms.tribune.com/.

For further information, contact: Mitch Rasmussen Mainstream Data 801-584-2800 (office) mrasmussen@mainstreamdata.com Bill Creighton Newscom 202-383-6058 (office) 703-850-5711 (mobile) bcreighton@newscom.com Steve Tippie Tribune Media Services 312-222-4455 (office) stippie@tribune.com Elaine Lintecum The McClatchy Company 916-321-1846 (office) elintecum@mcclatchy.com