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Multicast Media Selected to Deliver Town Hall for Hope Live on the Internet

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 11:49 CDT

Nationwide event on the economy led by Dave Ramsey is expected to be one of the most viewed webcasts to date

ATLANTA, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Multicast Media, a market leader in live event broadcasting, Internet video and multimedia communication, today announced that it has been selected as the live Internet delivery partner for Dave Ramsey's Town Hall for Hope. The meeting will take place on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 8 p.m. EDT. It will be broadcast live from Life Church in Oklahoma to over six thousand locations across the country free of charge, where it will be seen by an estimated viewing audience of over 900,000 people.

Ramsey, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and New York Times best selling author, will cover what's happening with the economy, how we got here, and where we are going. Throughout the meeting, Ramsey will take questions live from viewers by phone, email, Twitter, Facebook and other technologies.

Multicast is a leader in live Internet broadcasting. The company is on track to deliver approximately 50,000 live events this year. Those events will be viewed live by over 70 million people, and eventually seen by 250 million people. In addition to delivering Town Hall for Hope live, Multicast holds exclusive syndication rights for post-event availability on its two faith-based Internet communities, Streaming Faith (www.streamingfaith.com) and 316 Networks (www.316networks.com).

Chance Mason, Multicast's President of Faith Based Initiatives commented, "The state of the global economy affects us all. Multicast is honored to partner with Life Church and Dave Ramsey to make this practical, hopeful message widely available."

For information about Multicast, please visit www.multicastmedia.com. For information about Town Hall for Hope, please visit www.townhallforhope.com.

About Multicast Media

Multicast is an Internet Video Platform company delivering an end-to-end management and delivery service for live and on-demand communication. Multicast offers Vidego(TM), a best-of-class Internet Video Platform which is composed of integrated modules that automate all aspects of the digital media value chain from transcoding to asset management to publishing, monetization, and analytics. Multicast delivers over 4,000 live Internet broadcasts each month and services nearly 1,000 customers around the world. Founded in 2000, Multicast is privately-held and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Dave Ramsey

A personal money management expert, Dave Ramsey is an extremely popular national radio personality and best-selling author of The Total Money Makeover, Financial Peace and More Than Enough. He is also host of "The Dave Ramsey Show" on Fox Business Network. Ramsey knows first-hand what financial peace means in his own life - living a true rags to riches to rags to riches story. By age twenty-six he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and now devotes himself full-time to helping ordinary people understand the forces behind their financial distress and how to set things right. Through his proven plan, Ramsey helps people eliminate debt and credit cards, learn to budget, avoid bankruptcy, build wealth and find financial peace. "The Dave Ramsey Show" is syndicated to more than 400 radio stations nationwide with more than 4 million weekly listeners.

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