40 West 57th Street,
5th Floor,
New York, NY 10019
UNITED STATES
Tel. (212) 641-2000
Fax. (310) 840-4052
Industry: Broadcasting & Entertainment
On the web: http://www.westwoodone.com
Employees: 1,088
Westwood One, Inc. is a Delaware corporation. The Company provides radio and television stations with programming information services and other content. It is a domestic outsourced provider of traffic reporting services and a radio network, producing and distributing national news, sports, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, sports, weather, video news and other information programming. It delivers content to over 5,000 radio and television stations in the U.S. The Company's business is organized in two main divisions: Network and Metro/Traffic. Its Network Division produces and distributes regularly scheduled and special syndicated programs, including live concerts, music and interview shows, national music countdowns, lifestyle short features, news broadcasts, talk programs, sporting events and sports features. It offers radio stations traditional news services, including CBS Radio news, CNN Radio news and NBC News Radio, in addition to weekday and weekend news, sports and entertainment features and programs. These programs include: major sporting events, including the National Football League, NCAA football and basketball games, the Masters and the Olympics, live personality talk shows, live concert broadcasts, countdown shows, music and interview programs and satellite simulcasts with cable networks. The Company's Metro/Traffic Division provides traffic reports and local news, weather and sports information programming to radio and television affiliates and their websites. This Division provides local traffic, news, sports and weather information reports to 2,300 radio and television affiliates in over 83 of the top 100 Metro Survey Area markets in the United States. In many of the markets in which the Metro/Traffic Division conducts operations, the Company maintains an advertising sales office as part of its operations center. Its advertising sales force is able to sell available commercial airtime in any and all of its markets in addition to selling such airtime in each local market, which affords its sales representatives an advantage over certain competitors. In the MSA markets in which the Company operates, it competes for advertising revenue with local print and other forms of communications media, including magazines, local radio, outdoor advertising, network radio and network television advertising, transit advertising, direct response advertising, yellow page directories, internet/new media and point-of-sale advertising.
