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Wizzard Media Senior V.P. Of Content Development Addressing Mobile Entertainment at 2008 NAB Show

Posted on: Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 09:00 CDT

Wizzard Media (AMEX: WZE), the world's largest podcasting network, is pleased to announce that Skip Fredricks, Senior Vice President of Content Development for Wizzard, has been selected as a VIP speaker at the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show going on this week through April 17th at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

For more than 80 years, the NAB Show has been known as the leading global event for content creators, managers and distributors, attracting more than 110,000 digital media professionals every year.

Fredricks will serve as a panelist for the session "Broadband, Mobile & New Ventures in Content: Mobilizing Entertainment" being held April 16th at 11:00 a.m. in the Las Vegas Convention Center Content Theater. Fredricks and fellow panel members will focus on strategies for successfully creating and producing mobile content, as well as tactics for content monetization. The panel will feature other industry experts from leading media forces, including executives from Fishman Productions, Nielsen Mobile and Sony Pictures Television International.

Two-time Emmy nominee Skip Fredricks has won 40 Telly Awards for his work in live extreme sports. Fredricks oversees the production of content for distribution over a broad range of new media outlets including streaming web video, cell phones and podcasts.

Fredricks' two Emmy nominations resulted from his work on the nationally-syndicated XSTV, which he created in 1998 for Fox Sports. XSTV is television's first and longest running extreme sport lifestyle program, featuring action from around the globe mixed with cutting edge music, fashion, celebrity interviews and more. In addition to FOX Sports, Fredricks has produced content for HBO's The Sopranos and Entourage, as well as Universal Pictures.

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, Microsoft's 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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Source: Business Wire

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