What are our
resources?

PA Entertainment

PA Customer Publishing is part of PA Entertainment. Our resources include:

Features: PA Entertainment has specialist writers producing material covering a wide range of subjects, including showbiz interviews, food, music, film, books, TV, health, interiors, travel, consumer issues, parenting, relationships, motoring, gardening, property, personal finance, fashion, and DIY.

PA Customer Publishing editorial staff also create and commission bespoke material.

Arts & Events: Listings information is compiled for in excess of 12,000 events each week for more than 60,000 venues in the UK, creating the UK´s most comprehensive, searchable, and interactive, database.

TV listings: PA Entertainment produces detailed listings for more than 650 terrestrial TV, satellite and radio stations – and delivers more than 5,000 camera ready pages to the print media every week.

Puzzles: PA´s team of compilers produce daily and weekly puzzles at all levels, including Su Doku. Bespoke puzzles which help engage and interact with an audience, are available for PA Customer Publishing clients.

PA Customer Publishing

PA Customer Publishing has access to The Press Association´s vast resource of hundreds of news stories, reported every day by a network of UK and overseas journalists – complete with photos, data graphics and audio bulletins and video clips.

Particular expertise in reporting includes parliament and lobby, courts, royal, city and finance, celebrity, health, science, and industry.

The Press Association´s news library is an invaluable archive of reports, reviews, trends and events from the last 100 years.

PA Sport

PA Sport is the world´s leading sports news and information provider, with more than 700 reporters in 200 countries focusing on 40 major sports.

Its unrivalled reputation for quality, speed and accuracy makes PA Sport the partner of choice for the world´s leading sports federations, including FIFA, UEFA, FA Premier League and the England and Wales Cricket Board.

PA Customer Publishing can bring you access to exclusive interviews, sports features, news and previews from the expert PA Sport team.

Empics

Empics, a PA Group company, manages one of the largest photo operations in the country – bringing together the production and archive of The Press Association, Associated Press, Empics Sport and Empics Entertainment.

The Press Association´s photographers shoot hundreds of pictures every day and state–of–the–art technology means they are available for Empics customers within minutes of being taken.

PA Customer Publishing clients can benefit from the six million news, sport and entertainment pictures managed by Empics.

PA Weather Centre

With a global supply of raw data from more than 5,000 locations, the skilled meteorologists at PA WeatherCentre provide short and medium–range forecasts, temperature reports, probability forecasts, satellite and radar images, sun, moon and tide information and air quality and pollen reports.

These are available in text, graphic, audio and video format.

Digital Services

Almost all of the content generated by the PA Group is available in digital formats – from TV listings, to weather reports, sports data, puzzles, features, news and more. Packages are tailored to meet your requirements in terms of length, format, and frequency of information.

The PA Group is one of the UK´s leading syndicators of high-quality web content. We offer a full web–hosting service, as well as a range of web ‘feeds’ and bespoke text, picture, video and audio content. Our mobile phone services range from 100–character SMS messages to 10–paragraph WAP stories. Multi–media messages using pictures, audio and video are also available.

PA Business

PA Business provides UK businesses, Government departments and other bodies with essential news and information services. It offers breaking news monitoring services, publicity image delivery and hosting, press release distribution and business information briefings.