 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.She has recorded commercials for clients like Verizon, Victoria's Secret and Vanguard as well as television promos for The CBS Morning Show, Dateline on NBC, The NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, Lifetime, Cinemax and many others.