Paltalk and 1010 WINS Team-up to Webcast Special Coverage of 9/11 Commemoration

Paltalk and 1010 WINS Team-up to Webcast Special Coverage of 9/11 Commemoration

1010 WINS and Paltalk anchors to host live, interactive program including footage from Ground Zero Ceremony

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- 1010 WINS, the nation's most listened to all-news station, and Paltalk, the leading real-time, video-based community, today announced plans for a special live, interactive newscast in commemoration of the events of September 11. The program, "1010 WINS Live Online with Paltalk.com," will be hosted by station anchor Susan Richard and Paltalk Director of News & Programming and host of "News Talk Online" Gary Baumgarten, and will air live on Paltalk.com and www.1010wins.com from 8:30AM - 12:30PM, ET on Tuesday, September 11.

The online broadcast will include a live feed from the memorial near Ground Zero, reports from 1010 WINS correspondents, pre-recorded video segments, and in-studio interviews with notable guests. Paltalk's interactive platform will allow viewers to interact both with each other and with the show's hosts and guests via video, voice, and text chat as they watch the 9/11 ceremony. The service is free for anyone who comes through the station's website, www.1010wins.com.

Guests scheduled to appear include Dilshad Ali, Muslim Editor of Beliefnet.com; Julie Menin, Chairperson of Manhattan Community Board 1 (CB1), the community board serving Lower Manhattan revitalization post- 9/11; Dr. Jacqueline Moline, Director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at Mount Sinai Hospital; Talat Hamdani, of Peaceful Tomorrows; and Carmine Calzonetti President of Tuesday's Children, a non- profit service organization for families touched by the attacks.

A team of 1010 WINS reporters will provide comprehensive on-air news coverage beginning at 5:00 a.m. The station will provide a live audio Web stream of the entire memorial ceremony online at 1010wins.com beginning at 8:30 a.m.

"Paltalk's interactive platform will give our online audience a unique opportunity to actively participate in the commemoration of one of the most pivotal events in our nation's history," said Mark Mason, WINS Program Director. "As the leading news station in New York market, we want to give our audience more than the standard 9/11 news broadcast, with a level of interactivity no other coverage will offer. With Paltalk, we will present an engaging and compelling way to remember this important day and a unique participatory forum to connect with each other."

"This special event will allow 1010wins.com users to interact face-to-face with Paltalk's diverse community of users from all over the world and share their thoughts with a worldwide audience as we mark the anniversary of this tragedy," said Joel Smernoff, Paltalk COO & President. "Being able to pose questions to the hosts and guests via voice and video chat will give viewers a chance to be an integral part of the commemoration, and also continue important dialogue on topics that have been global issues since 9/11."

For more information or to log on, please visit www.paltalk.com or www.1010wins.com.

About Paltalk

Paltalk is the premier real-time, video-based community pioneering the new socialcasting movement. Paltalk's platform brings together traditional broadcasting media, social networking, user-generated content and video chat. With more than 4 million active users, Paltalk hosts the world's largest interactive video community offering thousands of users the ability to watch and interact with online video programming, including serialized shows, live events, and user-generated content, as well as interact with each other through real-time voice, text and video chat.

Paltalk's diverse programming includes Paltalk original shows including regular programs with celebrities, radio personalities and newsmakers such as the radio jocks Opie and Anthony and Samantha Daniels. The company also broadcasts live interactive video chat events such as musical performances and comedy variety shows. Paltalkers can interact with the featured hosts and performers in real-time as well as other members in the room. Paltalk also offers its users the ability to create and share their own user-generated video content with each other and to the broader community. For more information visit www.paltalk.com

About 1010 WINS

1010 WINS launched more than 40 years ago as the NY Metropolitan area's first all-news source. Since that time the 1010 WINS staff of veteran anchors, reporters, editors and writers has won virtually every broadcast journalism award, and the station has been honored with the prestigious Marconi Station of the Year award. 1010 WINS is owned and operated by CBS RADIO, one of the largest major-market radio operators in the United States. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO operates 144 radio stations, the majority of which are in the nation's top 50 markets. CBS RADIO also owns and operates WCBS-AM, WCBS-FM, WFAN-AM, WWFS-FM and WXRK-FM in New York.

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