Back to press releasesNewark, NJ, August 25, 2004 – IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT, IDT.C), a multinational telecom, entertainment and technology company, today announced that WMET 1160 AM, its owned and operated radio station in Washington, D.C., has upgraded its signal to 50,000 watts. The upgrade will extend the reach of the station’s signal from Richmond, Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland. The signal upgrade took effect July 12, 2004.
“50,000 watts means access to millions of new listeners,” said Jim Courter, IDT’s CEO. “That’s powerful news for IDT and great news for WMET’s broadcast audience. Now listeners in the D.C. area have a radio station to turn to for lively, intelligent talk, lifestyle programming and in-depth analysis of news and current events.”
WMET’s programming features some of talk radio’s most respected hosts as well as rising stars who have quickly established themselves as leading broadcasters. WMET’s weekday lineup includes The Geoff Metcalf Show, The Linda Chavez Show, JD Balart’s American Radio Journal, The Passion! with Shmuley Boteach, The Bruce Williams Show, and The Daily Agenda with William Kristol. Weekends feature entertaining lifestyle programming including Hints From Heloise, The Movie Show and The Lowell Ponte Show.
“WMET is bringing engaging talk radio into the Washington, D.C. market,” said Jerrold Rappaport, General Manager of WMET. “WMET blends substance and style to deliver serious radio that’s never boring. Currently, there’s nothing like WMET on the D.C. dial. We believe that WMET has the kind of quality programming that will get people talking.”
WMET recently launched an advertising campaign to mark its emergence as a powerful force in Washington, D.C. radio. Featuring the tag line “Radio for the rest of us,” the extensive print campaign includes bus back and taxi ads, and will be followed by TV and newspaper ads. The campaign introduces WMET as the Washington, D.C. talk station with programming that appeals to listeners looking for insightful and entertaining talk radio.
IDT Corporation, through its IDT Telecom subsidiary, is a facilities-based, multinational carrier that provides a broad range of telecommunications services to retail and wholesale customers worldwide. IDT Telecom, by means of its own national telecommunications backbone and fiber optic network infrastructure, provides its customers with integrated and competitively priced international and domestic long distance and domestic all-distance telephony and prepaid calling cards. IDT Entertainment is the IDT subsidiary focused on developing, acquiring, producing and distributing computer-generated and traditionally animated productions and other productions for the film, broadcast and direct-to-consumer markets. Menlo Park is the IDT division principally responsible for the Company’s initiatives in radio broadcasting, brochure distribution and new video technologies. Winstar Holdings, LLC, which provides service under the IDT Solutions brand, is the IDT subsidiary focused on providing broadband and telephony services to commercial and governmental customers through a fixed-wireless and fiber infrastructure. Net2Phone, Inc., a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, is a leading provider of high-quality global retail Voice over IP services and offers a fully outsourced cable telephony service to cable operators allowing cable operators to provide residential phone service to their subscribers.
IDT Corporation’s Class B Common Stock and Common Stock trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols IDT and IDT.C, respectively.
Important Note: In this press release, all statements that are not purely about historical facts, including, but not limited to, those include the words “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,” “target” and similar expressions, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these forward-looking statements represent IDT’s current judgment of what may happen in the future, actual results may differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these statements due to numerous important factors, including, but not limited to, those described in IDT’s most recent report on SEC Form 10-K (under the heading “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”), which may be revised or supplemented in subsequent reports on SEC Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other filings IDT may make with the SEC.
