Good News Broadcast Joins the Wizzard Media Network
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wizzard Media (AMEX: WZE), the worlds
largest podcasting network, is pleased to announce that Good
News Broadcast will distribute its extensive archive of thousands of
audio and video interviews with experts, celebrities, authors and more
on the Wizzard Media Network. Created in 1998, Good News Broadcast (GNB)
was founded by CBS/PBS-TV Producer/ Executive Paul Sladkus (All in
The Family, The Carol Burnett Show, Love of Life, Sonny and Cher)
and is part of Milestone Broadcast Corporation (MBC). The GNB website, www.goodnewsbroadcast.com,
currently receives over 2 million hits per month.
On GNBs behalf, Wizzard Media will obtain
advertising and sponsorship campaigns from national advertisers. In
addition, Wizzard Media will provide marketing support to grow the shows
digital audience.
GNB is a rapidly growing lifestyle-integrated media network that covers
and distributes news, entertainment, and special events 24/7 from
domestic and international sources, and from an impartial point-of-view.
Topics range from health, science, culture, and business, to
entertainment, international relations, multi-cultural affairs,
community niche interests, and much more. Leading personality and
organizational feature interviews include: Bono, Michael Douglas, Ted
Turner, Deepak Chopra, Mitch Album, Tiki Barber, Earth Day and Water Day
Concerts, and Katrina Aid, as well as hundreds of authors, corporations
and not-for-profit organizations. The audio and video content will be
formatted for podcasting, and will be made available through Wizzards
multiple online partner channels.
We are excited to be working with Skip and
the Wizzard team. We believe this new partnership will help us attain
our goal of extending our global online reach and we look forward to
bringing GNB into the electrifying world of podcasting,
said Paul Sladkus, Founder, Good News Broadcast.
GNB offers thousands of hours of compelling
audio and video content, and we are pleased to welcome them to our
growing network of digital content, said
Skip Fredricks, Sr. VP of Content Development for Wizzard Media. Wizzard
Media offers both content producers and advertisers the chance to reach
an extremely loyal, constantly evolving online audience.
About Wizzard Media
Wizzard Media is the industry's leading podcast hosting network, with an
unprecedented one billion-plus download requests in 2007. Podcasts are a
means for independent and professional content creators to publish audio
and video shows for the world to enjoy over the Internet or on mp3
players, such as the Apple iPod and the Microsoft Zune. Podcasting is a
relatively new phenomenon, but Wizzard Media collectively broadcasts
millions of podcast downloads per day through media aggregators like
Apple's iTunes, Microsofts Zune Marketplace
and other podcast aggregators. For more information, please visit www.wizzard.tv.
Wizzard Media is a division of Wizzard Software, a leader in speech
technology development.
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