What is "redeye"

Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See Rud, n.] (Zo["o]l.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ( Leuciscus erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

a. (alternative spelling of red-eye English) n. 1 (context uncountable English) The effect in a photograph taken with flash of a subject's eyes appearing red due to the reflection of light from the blood vessels in the retina 2 (alternative spelling of red-eye English)

n. a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep; "he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning" [syn: redeye flight]

The RedEye is a daily publication put out by the Chicago Tribune geared toward 18- to 34-year-olds. RedEye (not to be confused with Red Eye, or Red-Eye, or other popular international websites and business sharing the same name) was created due in part to the loss of readership among young people of the Chicago Tribune and other major newspapers. Tribune Company began publishing the RedEye in an effort to pull readers back into readership and eventually migrate them into the big edition (Tribune).

When RedEye appeared, it was in direct competition with another paper Red Streak, which the Tribune's Chicago competitor the Sun-Times began publishing at the same time. Initially, both papers were handed out for free by "hawkers" on street corners, usually with one vendor from each paper directly next to each other. After about 6 months of the free papers, both companies placed vending boxes throughout the city with the papers thereafter costing 25 cents.

At the end of 2005, the Sun-Times discontinued Red Streak. According to Sun-Times publisher John Cruickshank, Red Streak was only launched "to stop [the Tribune] from gaining a foothold in the paid tabloid market...". Its only purpose was to undermine RedEye's attempt at drawing commuters, customers which have historically belonged to the Sun-Times.

At the beginning of 2006, RedEye became a free paper once again, with vending boxes being unlocked and coin slots covered over.

In February 2007, after NewsCorp launched a late-night talk television program on Fox News entitled Red Eye, the Tribune Company filed a federal trademark infringement lawsuit.

Redeye was a comic strip created by cartoonist Gordon Bess that was syndicated by King Features Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers. The strip debuted on September 11, 1967.

Redeye was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The group released two albums on Pentagram Records in the early 1970s, and had two hit singles in 1971, "Games" ( U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart #27) and "Red Eye Blues" (U.S. #78).

Redeye is a radio program produced by an independent media collective at CFRO-FM, 100.5 FM, a cooperative community radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.