PORTLAND, Maine, July 23, 2008 - Local Thunder, an innovative developer of next generation online advertising platforms for local broadcast and newspaper media outlets, today announced that it has appointed Alan Buckman as Sales Director for the Americas region. Buckman brings over twenty five years of experience in the broadcasting and new media industries. In his new position, Buckman will lead Local Thunder's North American sales effort in the television, cable and radio markets and grow Local Thunder's successful business proposition into these areas.

Prior to joining Local Thunder, Buckman held executive sales and management positions at CBS, Viacom, Asian Media Group's KSCI-TV, as well as acted as a strategic advisor to a number of new media companies including egotvonline.com and fliptrack.com. Buckman was a pioneer in Internet sales, heading up sales for kpix.com in the mid 1990's, as kpix.com became the first televisions station website to generate over $1.0M in ad revenue.

Jim Boutin, Local Thunder's COO comments: "We are thrilled to have Alan join our team. Alan's experience in the broadcasting and new media industries is second to none. He brings to our team a long history of successful sales performance and station management, as well as a proven track record in growing new business opportunities for new media companies in the broadcasting sector."

Alan earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a past board member of the 3AF (Asian Advertising Federation), a past board member of STAR (Society of Television and Radio, San Francisco), and a member of NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives).

Headquartered in Portland Maine, Local Thunder is an Internet sales and marketing company, focused on boosting revenues for local newspaper, television and radio affiliates. The company offers a proven, multi-faceted advertising platform that leverages the power of the Internet—the fastest growing revenue opportunity in the industry—with the strength of its customers' brands. Local Thunder provides a turnkey program, including Web design, training and support. Local Thunder can change the way local newspapers, radio and TV affiliates do business and make a profound difference to their bottom line in a matter of weeks. For further information, please visit www.localthunder.com or call 1-866-781-9360.

For additional information contact:
Veronique Froment
HighrezPR
veronique@highrezpr.com
(603)537-9248