NEW YORK, Jan. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal Radio Network has launched a new interactive, multimedia widget for affiliate station Web sites. The new WSJ Radio widget displays a wide variety of continually updated content, including breaking audio business reports from The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, news and business news content from WSJ.com, video from the Journal worldwide and real-time market data from Dow Jones Indexes.
The WSJ Radio widget -- designed and developed by Universal Mind using Adobe Flash Platform Services -- allows stations to feature breaking business news on their Web sites 24 hours a day.
"Great radio stations satisfy listeners' appetites for news and information online and on air," said Nancy Abramson, executive director, The Wall Street Journal Radio Network. "Providing information across media platforms from America's number one business news brand is an important addition to that menu."
"The Wall Street Journal Radio Network is dedicated to creating innovative ways for our affiliates to disseminate business news and enhance interaction with their users. The new WSJ Radio widget, which is both interactive and shareable across the web, is a complete business news solution for affiliates' Web sites," said Abramson.
The Wall Street Journal Radio Network will provide two versions of the widget to accommodate affiliates of The Wall Street Journal Radio Reports and The Dow Jones Money Reports.
The WSJ Radio widget can be viewed at www.wsjradio.com.
About The Wall Street Journal Radio Network
The Wall Street Journal Radio Network (http://www.wsjradio.com) has been the leading provider of business-news programming for radio stations in the United States for more than 25 years. The network serves listeners on 380 radio stations with late-breaking business, consumer spending and financial-market news around the clock. The network is home to The Wall Street Journal Report, the Dow Jones Money Report, and Watching Your Wallet, Barron's on Investment, The Wall Street Journal This Morning and The Wall Street Journal This Weekend.
Business-news reports from The Wall Street Journal Radio Network are carried on the leading radio stations in the country -- including WCBS-AM, New York; KABC-AM, Los Angeles; WLS-AM, Chicago; KGO-AM/KSFO-AM, San Francisco; WMAL-AM, Washington, D.C.; WWJ-AM, Detroit; KTRH-AM, Houston; WLW-AM, Cincinnati; and KSTP-AM Minneapolis. The Wall Street Journal This Morning is heard on 160 stations including WLS-AM Chicago, WPGB-FM Pittsburgh, WGST-AM Atlanta and KNEW-AM San Francisco.
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