Arnold, CA…First we would like to thank each and every one of you, locals, part time residents or visitors to who choose to spend a few minutes with us each day. It is humbling and exciting to be able to provide one of your news destinations. With our site and streaming programs you have spent over 30,000,000 minutes reading news articles, watching our news programs or streaming replays so far this month.  So now we are offering Gold, Silver or Bronze basic ad packages and custom packages of a mix of display, TV or Video Ads and Social Media Sharing options as well. They are $365 for the Bronze package, $600 for Silver & $1,200 for Gold in our standard packages. For custom or weekly ad packages these start at $200 per month on up. Our Guarantee to you is this. We will provide you with at least 20% more exposure for every advertising dollar than even the Social Media Giants. We know even shopping local you can reach a broadbased audience that is interested in our area and do so at the lowest cost per thousand basis.  We can prove that shopping local for your advertising can earn you more.

Business Showcase Gold $1,200.    Bring the Gold into your business with our Business Showcase Gold package. In this package you get a permanent ad in our business section. Monthly flyer sized front page promotions and at least one 30 second TV spot on Mornings with the One Percent™ every weekday for an entire year. This is a great value as just the TV commercials alone have a value of over $5,000. This package runs for an entire year from date of purchase and is only $1,200.

Business Showcase Silver $600.    Bring the Silver into your business with our Business Showcase Silver package. In this package you get a permanent ad in our business section. Monthly flyer sized front page promotions and at least one 30 second TV spot on Mornings with the One Percent™ for the first 90 Days. This is a great value as just the TV commercials alone have a value of over $1,500.   This package runs for an entire year from date of purchase and is only $600.

Business Showcase Bronze $365.    Bring the Sales into your business with our Business Showcase Bronze package. In this package you get a permanent ad in our business section.  Quarterly flyer sized front page promotions and at least one 30 second TV spot on Mornings with the One Percent™ for the first week.  This is a great value for any business.   This package runs for an entire year from date of purchase and is only $365.

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Shop Local for your advertising and save!! This is our lowest cost local advertising guarantee…”We will match and beat any other local media outlet and targeted Facebook & Google AdWords™ campaigns on a “Cost Per Thousand” or CPM basis by at least 20%!”

CPM is one of the most common metrics and ways to measure advertising across multiple platforms including Web, Print & Broadcast. The “M” in CPM represents the Roman numeral for 1,000.

Your advertising is pre-targeted to viewers who care about this area. We also do not accept any advertising from businesses not in our communities or doing a significant about of local business. Our job is to inform viewers and promote our local businesses & economy.

To our many current and longtime advertisers we say Thank You!!!!!!

Our guarantee to our local advertisers. We provide you targeted, quality, local advertising at the lowest CPM rate of any local media outlet. We will also match and beat the CPM price for targeted ads from the social media and web search giants.

Another guarantee we make to you and our community is that we will not accept advertising from out of market businesses in an attempt by them to drive customers from our home markets to businesses in Modesto, Stockton or Sacramento.

If not a customer yet we thank you for your visits to our site and give us a call at 209.768.3929 and we will get your advertising up and running. If you need, display, weekly, video or TV style ads, special event promotions or more we are here to serve.

We thank you for shopping local for your advertising needs!!!

Our definitions of local businesses are these:

1. Local businesses that are locally owned and operated. The bulk of our customers.

2. Local business units of larger companies that provide a large number of local jobs and provide a core function in our communities. Our local hospitals are prime examples of this category.

3. Locally owned franchises or marketing affiliations of national brands. Local hardware stores are a prime example of this category.