Slacker Announces New Personalized Lifestyle Stations with Content Partner ABC News Radio

NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Slacker, Inc. today announced new Lifestyle stations, in conjunction with ABC, that will be available on Slacker Personal Radio, adding customizable personal interest stories from one of the nation's most trusted sources. The Slacker lifestyle stations cover a broad range of content that is compelling and applicable to all listeners interested in healthy living, relationships, employment, fashion, technology, religion/spirituality, consumer news and much more. The lifestyle stations will also feature commentary by experts from a variety of sources including ABC's Good Morning America and ABC's key content partners.

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The new Slacker Radio lifestyle stations will be available to listeners in early 2012.

"ABC is excited to offer Slacker fans a new listening option that can be customized and personalized," said Steve Jones, vice president and general manager, ABC News Radio. "This unique radio offering will allow listeners to enjoy lifestyle content whenever and wherever they want."

The new lifestyle stations will enable Slacker listeners to easily skip over segments, similar to the song skipping on music stations, for a more personalized experience. Subscribers to Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium radio will have the additional benefit of being able create their own stations featuring all of the content available for the most customized listening experience.

"Slacker listeners love customization, whether it is for music, news or sports," said Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president of marketing at Slacker. "Now that we will be offering this new lifestyle content we can give our listeners the unique ability to select and hear talk radio featuring programming that is most important, interesting and relevant to their daily lives."

Slacker Radio is dedicated to offering a fully customizable online radio experience that includes the most varied and compelling range of personalized content offered by any Internet radio service. The Slacker Radio experience includes over 150 expert-programmed music stations, ABC News, personalized ESPN Sports content, comedy, custom artist-hosted showcase stations, leading music festival stations with the new lifestyle stations coming soon. With a music catalog that is over ten times larger than Pandora, the leading radio competitor, Slacker Radio gives listeners the ultimate music and content discovery resource.

Pricing and Availability

The new lifestyle content will launch in early 2012 for all levels of Slacker service. Slacker Radio is currently available at www.Slacker.com or by accessing Slacker Radio from a supported device. Slacker Radio Plus, which is available for $3.99 per month and Slacker Premium Radio (featuring on-demand music play), which is available for $9.99 per month, can be purchased by visiting www.Slacker.com or selecting the "upgrade" button from within a Slacker Radio mobile application.

About ABC News Radio

ABC News Radio is America's largest commercial radio news organization delivering hourly newscasts and breaking news coverage to more than 1,800 affiliates nationwide and reaches approximately 77 million people each week.  ABC News Radio also produces ABC Sports Radio and ABC Entertainment Radio.  ABC News Radio is the exclusive news content provider for Slacker Radio. 

About Slacker, Inc.

Slacker offers the world's most complete range of radio services. Whether it's the award-winning free Slacker Basic Radio, or the fully-loaded subscription services Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio, listeners enjoy a unique, custom listening experience. Slacker enables music lovers to play highly personalized music online at the Slacker web site, in Ford vehicles with SYNC AppLink, on connected home devices or on-the-go with Slacker Personal Radio applications. Slacker mobile applications are available for Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, Nokia, Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry smartphones. For more information visit: http://www.Slacker.com/about.

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