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Fantasy Sports Channel Features 52 Hours of Live, Original Programming a Week, with Continuous 7-Hour Blocks Monday-Friday

NEW YORK, N.Y. – (August 27, 2008) - BlogTalkRadio, the world’s largest online radio network, today announced the launch of its Fantasy Sports Channel.  The channel will feature 52 hours of live, original, call-in programming, making it the most comprehensive fantasy-sports broadcast offering in the world. 

Going live on Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 4:00 p.m. ET, the channel is timed to coincide with the start of the 2008-2009 NFL football season.

The schedule features 28 shows hosted by 20 expert fantasy sportscasters, including Craig Davis (“Two Feet in Bounds”), Tony Cincotta, Rhett Oldham, Joe Menicucci and Darryl Houston Smith (“Fantasy Football Facts”), Brian Swaw (“Game Time Decisions”), Paul Greco (“Fantasy Gridiron Live”), and Lyle Konkeil and Kevin Moore (“The Fantasy Football Guys”).

And of course as the baseball season winds down the Godfather of Fantasy Baseball Lenny Melnick will continue to bring you the best in the industry (“Lenny Melnick”).  

Each weekday brings seven hours of live, continuous programming (aka “Power Blocks”), with an additional one and a half hours on “Super-sized Tuesdays” and “Super-sized Thursdays.”  The channel also features a live, two-hour morning warm-up show on Tuesdays, as well as eight hours of live “Fantasy Frenzy” programming on Sundays.

“BlogTalkRadio’s Fantasy Sports Channel will no doubt be quickly embraced by the 30 million North Americans who are fantasy-sports enthusiasts – and spend more than $3.8 billion annually on this fast-growing pastime,” said Philip Recchia, BlogTalkRadio’s director of programming. “This is a market that’s thirsting for live, expert commentary and interactivity.”

In addition to football, the channel will also feature baseball, hockey and tennis programming, with basketball, golf, car racing and other sports joining the lineup in the coming months.

About BlogTalkRadio

Launched in August 2006, BlogTalkRadio is a free, web-based radio talk show platform that allows any user with a phone and a computer to host a live, interactive radio show -- no downloads or extra equipment needed. Hosts call into the service by phone to broadcast. Each show can accommodate unlimited live listeners.  Upon completion of the live broadcast, it is automatically archived as a podcast.  Since the company’s launch, thousands of hosts have broadcast more than 100,000 shows. Notable guests on BlogTalkRadio, such as Yoko Ono, Brad Pitt, John McCain, Brian DePalma and more, appear on the Best of BlogTalkRadio page.

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