WFAN and Paltalk Announce Partnership to Bring Socialcasting to a New Level

WFAN and Paltalk Announce Partnership to Bring Socialcasting to a New Level

WFAN's 'Boomer and Carton' and 'Benigno and Roberts' shows to broadcast to Paltalk's four million chat users worldwide

NEW YORK, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Sports Radio 66, WFAN, the flagship station for New York Sports has teamed up with Paltalk, the leading real-time, online video-based community with over four million active members. Live video streaming of two of the station's most popular programs, 'Boomer and Carton' and 'Benigno and Roberts,' will be available online Monday-Friday from 6:00AM to 1:00PM ET.

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Combining traditional media content, with social networking, and an interactive video community, listeners can benefit by logging on to www.paltalk.com/WFAN or visiting www.wfan.com where they can interact live with the hosts of each show and engage in dialogue with other fans that are participating online at the same time. The hosts also have the ability to take questions from the online audience listening in Paltalk's WFAN room.

"Our partnership with Paltalk enables us to give listeners a new and unique way to interact with each other, and actually be a part of both the 'Boomer and Carton' and 'Benigno and Roberts' programs," said Mark Chernoff, Operations Director, WFAN. "With our dedicated audience, there is always a demand to have an increased level of involvement in the actual content of our shows, and Paltalk's socialcasting platform provides us with the perfect medium to achieve this."

"This announcement continues to validate our commitment to providing Paltalk users with the best in today's talk radio content in a completely interactive way," said Joel Smernoff, President and COO of Paltalk. "WFAN has been a pioneer in sports talk content, and bringing our socialcasting platform to their programming schedule represents the first time that a live online audience can see, hear and interact in real-time with today's leading sports radio personalities."

The 'Boomer and Carton' show airs weekdays from 6:00-10:00AM, ET. The program is hosted by former NFL quarterback and CBS Sports football analyst Boomer Esiason, and Craig Carton, one of Talkers Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential Talk Show Hosts for the past three years.

'Benigno and Roberts' talk sports from 10:00AM-1:00PM, ET every weekday, and is hosted by New York sports personalities Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts. The duo focuses on the local New York sports scene and analyzes the stories making national headlines across the country.

For more information on the WFAN chat room on Paltalk, please visit www.paltalk.com/WFAN.

About Paltalk

Paltalk is the premier real-time, video-based community bringing together traditional broadcasting media, social networking, user-generated content and video chat. With more than four million active users, Paltalk hosts the world's largest interactive video community, PaltalkScene, 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 featuring celebrities, radio personalities and newsmakers, and broadcasts of live interactive video chat events, such as musical performances and comedy variety shows. 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.

About WFAN

Launched on July 1, 1987, The FAN was the nation's first full-time sports formatted radio station and is the most listened to station of its kind. Currently the flagship station of four New York-area professional sports franchises, including the N.Y. Mets, N.Y. Giants, N.J. Nets and N.J. Devils, and home to the No. 1-rated Mike and the Mad Dog show, WFAN also provides sports headlines with the "WFAN 20/20 Sports Update" at the top of the hour, 20 minutes past the hour and 20 minutes before the hour.

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CONTACT: Matt Rizzetta or Todd Barrish, todd@dukaspr.com, both of Dukas
Public Relations, +1-212-704-7385; or Jodi Salidor, Marketing Director of
WFAN, +1-718-707-4005, jsalidor@cbs.com

Web site: http://www.paltalk.com/
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http://www.wfan.com/

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