CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., and NEW YORK, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaBay.com, Inc., the leading on-line provider of premium spoken word audio content in hard goods and digital download formats, and ArtistEnt.com/Patronet (http://www.artistent.com/), Sheridan Square Entertainment's network of web sites and artist subscription label, have entered into an agreement for a radio syndication partnership.
Under the terms of the agreement, MediaBay's content portal site, MediaBay.com (http://www.mediabay.com/) will be a sister content portal to ArtistEnt.com. The ArtistEnt produced Internet radio program ``Vin Scelsa's Live at Lunch'' will be embedded in the Events section of MediaBay's website. MediaBay joins the growing list of affiliates to carry ArtistEnt's content.
MediaBay.com is an innovative content and e-commerce website which has a reach of more than 2.0 million unique visitors, 650,000 opt-in email addresses and a customer database of over 2.5 million names. MediaBay offers their consumers a one-stop location for spoken word content and products available in hard goods and secure digital download formats. As part of this partnership, MediaBay will promote/market the ``Live at Lunch'' program to their users.
``Vin Scelsa's Live at Lunch'' showcases legendary disk jockey Vin Scelsa's signature brand of free-form radio programming. The show presents a wide variety of musical genres, intelligent talk and an eclectic array of guests, all woven into the kind of distinctly creative show that Scelsa has become famous for throughout his storied 30-year career in radio.
``MediaBay has the perfect Vin Scelsa audience. Their national membership will be able to enjoy Vin's quality free form radio programming live and from our archives on demand anywhere anytime,'' says Stuart Shapiro, President of ArtistEnt.
``We are happy to offer our MediaBay.com customers and site visitors access to Vin Scelsa's lively and entertaining content for free. This is the type of programming that helps us grow our database of customers and opt-in email addresses and enables us to maintain our leadership in the spoken word market,'' stated Steve McLaughlin, President of MediaBay.com.
About ArtistEnt./PatroNet
ArtistEnt./PatroNet is an online network and artist subscription label that also creates exclusive original content from such participating artists as Rosanna Arquette, Todd Rundgren, Sugar Ray, Mancow Muller, Kidd Kraddick, and Peter Wolf. PatroNet.com and RTVnet.com are two of the Internet radio properties of Sheridan Square Entertainment, the company founded by Danny Goldberg and C&P Partners. Stuart Shapiro is president of ArtistEnt/PatroNet. ArtistEnt/PatroNet has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
About MediaBay, Inc.
MediaBay, Inc. is the leading provider of premium spoken word audio content and products in hard goods and digital download formats both online and offline which it markets to its customer database of over 2.5 million names and more than 2.0 million unique website visitors. MediaBay, Inc. is one of the world's largest marketers of audiobooks through its Audio Book Club membership club, which markets and sells tens of thousands of audiobook titles through direct mail and the Internet at http://www.audiobookclub.com/. MediaBay, Inc. is also one of the world's largest marketers of old-time radio shows and classic videos through its Radio Spirits subsidiary which markets and sells its content library of over 60,000 radio shows and 3,500 videos on audio cassette, compact disc and video cassette through direct mail, retail and radio channels, as well as through the Internet at http://www.mediabay.com/. MediaBay.com, the Company's media portal site, is an innovative content and e-commerce website offering the Company's millions of customers and website visitors a single location for premium spoken word content and products available in hard goods and secure digital download formats.
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