Spark Network Services welcomes CBS Detroit

Chicago, Dec. 20, 2006 – Spark Network Services is excited to announce that it has teamed up with CBS Detroit's WYCD country music station to bring listeners the most advanced text messaging service available. WYCD is taking advantage of PromoTXTRadio, one of several text messaging platforms that Spark Network Services offers.

PromoTXTRadio, through its radio launchpad, offers a complete array of text message services designed exclusively for the radio industry. Its web-based system allows radio station personnel to easily and instantly launch over-the-air text message services that engage the listener to participate in interactive promotions such as ticket giveaways, cash sweepstakes, and ringtone content.

"Over night, radio stations are accepting that text messaging is the best way to keep listeners excited and tuned in to terrestrial radio," said Jennifer Hanson , Regional Sales Manager at Spark, "WYCD was eager to get started and be a leader in the market."
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Spark Network Services, a division of Advanced Telecom Services (Wayne , Pennsylvania) is a long-time provider of non-traditional revenue sources to radio stations, primarily through its MatchLink dating system. It has been involved in the mobile data content business with services such as ringtones and text messaging since 2001.