For more
information, contact Scott Chase at GRID Media, 301-879-1613, or by
email at scottchase@verizon . WorldNow's products include a website
platform and publishing toolset, a streaming video solution , an automotive
classifieds solution, local sales programs, and a national ad network.

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CEO Succession Planning: A New Survey from Directors + Boards

He also assisted in pioneering alternative distribution , via
turn-key applications for the sale of off-network products to start-up
independents and local market agreements.

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billion in annual revenues.

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The journal is edited by James Kristie and
published by Robert Rock. Marcus and his
team will also continue to launch innovative media partnership programs that
provide local viewers with important in-market information while creating new
non-traditional revenue sources for local media companies.
Marcus, who has been with WorldNow for five years, was previously
Southwest Division Manager at Paramount Pictures + Fox Television where he
helped create large market share for First-run and major Feature Film
libraries .

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"Stuart is integral in leading WorldNow to meet all of its sales and
revenue development goals," said Gary Gannaway, Chairman, President and CEO of
WorldNow.

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The companies represented by the respondents averaged $2.com) is the leading
journal of corporate governance thought leadership , read by more than
5,000 CEOs, outside directors and other corporate governance
professionals each quarter.

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The complete results of the survey will be
published in a special Boardroom Briefing in March 2005.net.

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Business Editors

WASHINGTON----A new survey by
Directors + Boards magazine, in association with the National
Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), shows that the vast
majority of corporate board members rate formal CEO succession
planning as 'very important ' or 'important' to the health and
profitability of their company, but that nearly half of companies do
not have a formal succession plan for the CEO position.

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Of those companies which do have a formal CEO succession plan,
more than 60% have had the plan in place for less than two years. The first Boardroom Briefing,
published in the fourth quarter of 2004, tackled the issue of the
relevance of annual meetings.com
Directors + Boards (www.

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Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available.
Marcus will manage WorldNow's Local Ad Sales team, where he will maintain
and grow WorldNow's vibrant convergent advertising business. "He has shown incredible dedication and relationship -building skills
by providing exemplary products and services to clients from start to finish
as they work with WorldNow.

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Conducted in November 2004, the survey generated 579 responses
from directors and senior level executives of publicly-held companies,
in addition to directors and executives of private and non-profit
entities.
Boardroom Briefings are a joint publication of the NACD and
Directors + Boards, and focus on single topics of critical interest to
board members."

About WorldNow
New York based WorldNow is the leading provider of Internet technology,
revenue and content solutions for more than 250 local media sites, including
broadcast TV, newspapers and cable.

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Of
those companies without a formal plan, only 29% are currently working
on a plan. They are distributed to approximately 21,000 directors
and corporate governance professionals.localmedianetwork.com.

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WorldNow Promotes Stuart Marcus to SVP Local Sales

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For additional information on the
survey, contact publishing director David Shaw, 301-963-6162 at
dshaw@directorsandboards.

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More than 32% of these companies say they have no plans to
formalize their succession planning. NEW YORK, WorldNow, the leading provider of
Internet technology, revenue and content solutions for local media companies ,
today announced that Stuart Marcus has been promoted to SVP, Local Ad Sales.

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For
additional information on WorldNow and the Local Media Network, visit
http://www.