SIRIUS Satellite Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) today announced that broadcasting legend Barbara Walters will host an exclusive, weekly live call-in show on its SIRIUS Stars channel.
Beginning September 17, Barbara Live will air Mondays from 6:00 - 7:00 pm ET on SIRIUS Stars channel 102. She will be joined on the air each week by Bill Geddie, the longtime executive producer of The View and Walters' Oscar(R) specials. SIRIUS is the only place Walters has ever done live, call-in shows.
Barbara Live gives SIRIUS subscribers unprecedented personal access to Walters. Listeners can discuss timely pop culture topics directly with Walters, who has personal experiences with many of the newsmakers. Walters will also inject her personality, frank opinions, sense of humor and experience into the conversations.
"I look forward to being on SIRIUS radio. I especially love taking phone calls from listeners," said Barbara Walters. "This is a whole new experience for me, and very exciting."
"Barbara Live deepens Barbara's involvement at SIRIUS," said Scott Greenstein, President, Entertainment and Sports at SIRIUS. "We are delighted our subscribers can now interact with one of America's broadcasting icons on a weekly basis."
SIRIUS also airs an exclusive weekly radio show with Walters called Barbara Walters' Best of the Very Best. This weekly one-hour series airs every Monday on SIRIUS Stars channel 102 at 6:00 am, 11:00 am, and 1:00 pm ET and features a selection of her compelling interviews from the past 30 years with great entertainers and world leaders. The show takes the best from a vast archive of diverse interviews that have captivated millions. Barbara Walters' Best of the Very Best includes dynamic interviews with famous people ranging from Hillary Clinton to Muhammad Ali to Tom Hanks to Lance Armstrong, to name only a few.
SIRIUS negotiated the agreement for the new series with Allen Grubman, Lawrence Shire and Karen Gottlieb of Grubman Indursky & Shire, P.C., who represent Ms. Walters and her production company Barwall Productions, Inc.
