 A five-time Billboard Magazine Award- winner, she is known for hosting the #1 on-air position in the New York radio market as the midday host of WLTW.Smaldone is a PBS host and interviewer for WNET, WLIW, NJTV, and other public television stations, and is a featured reporter on ABC for the Columbus Day Parade.She is currently the host, producer and founder of the Broadway and food-themed talk radio program and podcast “Bagels and Broadway with Valerie Smaldone.”

An accomplished voice-over artist, Valerie was the narrator on the episodic program “Fatal Encounters” on Investigation Discovery Channel.