WAM

WAM or Wam may refer to:

People with the name

See also

WAM (Emirates News Agency)

WAM (Wakalat Anba'a al Emarat) or also known as Emirates News Agency is the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates.

History and profile

The WAM was launched in November 1976. It started Arabic broadcast on 18 June 1977 and English broadcast in December 1978. The agency which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi is part of National Media Council.

The agency has Arabic and English news services and has a website in both languages. In addition to its national offices, it has offices in Cairo, Beirut, Washington, Sanaa, Brussels and Islamabad. It is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council news agencies, the Federation of Arab News Agencies, the International Islamic News Agency, the Pool of Non-Aligned News agencies and of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA).

The agency has cooperation and news exchange agreements with various news agencies, including the Sudan News Agency, the Malaysian National News Agency, the Russian News Agency, the Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, the Kuwait News Agency, the Jordanian News Agency, the Indonesian News Agency, and the Yemeni News Agency. Since 2012 the agency has also been in cooperation with the official Turkish news agency, Anadolu Agency.

Web audience measurement

Web Audience Measurement (WAM) is an audience measurement and website analytics tool that measures Internet usage in India. The system, a joint effort of IMRB International and Internet and Mobile Association of India surveys over 6000 individuals across 8 metropolitan centers in India and tracks a variety of metrics such as time-on-site, exposure, reach and frequency of Internet usage.

WAM uses audience measurement and is a continuous tracking panel study that provides cross sectional data on Internet usage segmented by gender, SEC and location. This panel-based approach uses metering technology, design for an Indian context that tracks computers.

Web Rating Points factor multiple measures of Internet usage to provide a more comprehensive picture to web advertisers and attempts to standardize web analytics in India. The web analytics market in India is currently fragmented, with Comscore and Vizisense being IMRB's key competitors. Several discussions revolve around the difference between the numbers provided by all the competitors in the digital audience measurement space. Therefore choosing the right measurement partner is imperative for media stakeholders. This creates rifts between users of two different audience measurement tools.

Encore (TV network)

Encore, A Subsidiary Of Starz, is an American premium cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Starz Inc. Its programming features mainly older and recent theatrically released feature films, although some of its multiplex channels also carry acquired television series. The headquarters of Encore, and its sister channels Starz and MoviePlex, are located at the Meridian International Business Center complex in Meridian, Colorado, United States.

As of February 2015, Encore's programming is available to approximately 39.709 million television households (34.1% of cable, satellite and telco customers) in the United States (38.310 million subscribers or 32.9% of all households with pay television service receive at least Encore's primary channel). This outpaces HBO's 35.8 million pay subscribers (also as of February 2015) to make Encore the largest premium channel by overall reach in the United States.

Encore has a higher subscriber base because, although Starz and Encore are often sold together in a singular package, some digital cable, telco and satellite providers offer the Encore multiplex separately from Starz as part of an a la carte tier in which it is packaged with other commercial-free and advertiser-supported film-oriented channels (such as Epix, FX Movie Channel and LMN). Therefore, Encore subscribers do not necessarily have to subscribe to Starz in order to receive the channel.

Indian locomotive class WAM-4

The Indian locomotive class WAM - 4 is a very successful class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives used in India. The first member of the class was indigenously designed and built by CLW in 1970-71. The class was produced until about 1997.

The locomotives in the class feature rheostatic braking, and MU capability. They use the same power bogies as the successful WDM-2 class of diesel-electric locomotives. Being designed specially for mixed traffic, the WAM-4 class has rendered excellent service. Now, most of these are used exclusively for passenger traffic. This class proved so successful by virtue of its ruggedness suitable for Indian conditions and simplicity of maintenance, that IR used this basic design for a number of other locos later (WCAM-1, WAG-5A, WCG-2, and some WAP models). The WAM-4 loco is still among the most heavily used electric locos of IR. A single WAM-4 can generally haul up to a 24-coach passenger rake.