STATS Fantasy Advantage Debuts On SiriusXM Radio

[Tom Kessenich]

We're VERY proud to announce tonight that the NFBC and NFFC will be featured prominently each week on SiriusXM's Fantasy Channel with our very own show. This is a great vehicle to promote our pay-to-play contests. The 2-hour show will be broadcast every Wednesday from 7-9 pm ET and will feature Greg Ambrosius and Tom Kessenich as co-hosts. The show will be called the STATS Fantasy Advantage and will give listeners every advantage we can provide to win their leagues.

STATS Fantasy Advantage will also give us a chance to feature our top players in all of our events each week on this show. We'll lead off next week with 2012 NFBC champion Dave Potts talking about his exciting run to the $100,000 grand prize. We may even feature two NFBC owners per week on our show.

The debut show took place live from the FSTA Conference at the Mirage in Las Vegas yesterday. That show is available online to listen to at anytime if you are a subscriber to SiriusXM's Fantasy Channel. That's a nice feature that SiriusXM has added and I'm sure it will allow many of their listeners to now catch us at anytime during the week.

Again, we know we can speak for everyone here at STATS when I say that we are ECSTATIC to be part of the SiriusXM team. For one thing, it's a FANTASTIC promotional vehicle to spread the word about our online and live contests. We've already seen new people sign up for our games just after the first show and both Greg and I have plenty of new Twitter followers as a result. We know this is going to expand our NFBC and NFFC audiences and it's going to bring in new players. But we also know that our content that we're providing -- led by the Average Draft Positions that you guys help us generate through so many early season Draft Champions Leagues -- is going to provide valuable content to their listeners. And now that we're part of their team, every news story involving a player involves his ADP in the NFBC. All of the other Fantasy Channel hosts also have our ADPs and can reference them throughout their shows. We are getting GREAT exposure on SiriusXM now that we're part of their team.

This show will also allow us to feature many of our top players. We'll gladly let you folks become the stars of this industry through your appearances on SiriusXM. And during the season, the entire nation will know who is leading our national contests and we'll make sure they hear from you during the stretch run when so much money is on the line.

And SiriusXM is going to broadcast live from our events more regularly as part of this deal. I'll go into more detail on that later, but obviously they love the Diamond Leagues and they really like making our NFBC and NFFC part of their National Fantasy Baseball Draft Day and their National Fantasy Football Draft Day. We'll have a big part in all of that leading up to those big days where our live drafts are taking place. Live reports from Las Vegas and New York City are a given, plus more. Stay tuned.

And while we're happy to have this exposure two hours a week -- along with our continued guest appearances on Rotowire.com's show and other shows -- we think our content is second to none. That's not bragging, it's just that we know our ADPs are the best info that their listeners can get. I thought we knocked it out of the park yesterday with our first show and some of the STATS statistics we gave on the air were fantastic. We have a research team looking up some unique numbers for our show each week and you'll like what they uncover.

The official press release is below. Thanks for having us SiriusXM. We're honored to be part of this great team.


STATS Fantasy Advantage comes to SiriusXM Fantasy Radio

Northbrook, IL – January 23, 2013 – STATS LLC, the world’s leading sports technology, information and content provider, today announced that the brain trust of its industry-leading high-stakes fantasy game series will be hosting a show on SiriusXM’s fantasy sports station (XM-87, Sirius-210) called STATS Fantasy Advantage. Full details of the STATS Fantasy Advantage show including bios, contact information and the on-air schedule can be found at: http://www.statsfantasyadvantage.com.

Hosted by veteran fantasy sports experts Greg Ambrosius and Tom Kessenich, STATS Fantasy Advantage will provide inside information from STATS’ industry-leading high stakes contests, including updated Average Draft Positions and top free agent pickups. Greg and Tom will interview the champions in high stakes fantasy sports to provide the draft and roster management strategies that have led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize earnings. STATS Fantasy Advantage will also provide insights into the match-ups, trends and unique analysis that STATS provides to its professional team and broadcast clients.

“We are excited to talk fantasy sports with the only audience that is as passionate about fantasy as our high stakes contestants, and that is the audience at SiriusXM Fantasy Radio. This is a great opportunity to talk fantasy sports and provide insights with information that was previously reserved for STATS’ clients in professional sports and broadcasting,” said Greg Ambrosius, STATS General Manager of Consumer Fantasy Games and an inductee of both the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hall of Fames.

The National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC), National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC) and National Fantasy Basketball Championship (NFBKC) originated in 2004 as the industry's first multi-city, live high-stakes events. In nine seasons, more than $15 million in prizes have been paid out between baseball, football and basketball.

About STATS LLC

STATS is the world's leading sports technology, data and content company. The company passionately abides by a mission to revolutionize the way sports contests are viewed, understood and enjoyed. STATS’ calling card consists of real-time scores, historical sports information, Associated Press editorial content, a turnkey fantasy sports operation and SportVU technology. Today, STATS’ worldwide client network of media companies and professional sports leagues and teams utilize a broad spectrum of dynamic in-game broadcast presentations and virtual images, multimedia enhancements and game analysis and tactical coaching tools. STATS is owned jointly by the Associated Press and News Corporation, with corporate offices across the globe. For a complete tour of STATS’ sports content portfolio and solutions, visit http://www.stats.com.