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Westwood One, Inc. (NYSE: WON) is the largest radio network in the United States. It is based in the city of New York, and it is managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation. Image File history File linksMetadata Westwood_One_logo. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Westwood_One_logo. ... This article is about the stock exchange itself. ... A radio network is a network system which distributes programming to multiple stations simultaneously, or slightly delayed, for the purpose of extending total coverage beyond the limits of a single broadcast signal. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... CBS Radio Inc. ... CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is an American media conglomerate focused on broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. ...

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The company is one of the largest producers and distributors of radio programming in the United States. It broadcasts entertainment, news, weather, sports, talk, and traffic programming to about 7,700 radio stations across the USA. The company is America's top provider of local traffic reports through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks, Shadow Broadcast Services and SmartRoute Systems. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Commentators distributed by Westwood One include Don Imus, Bill O'Reilly, Lars Larson, Jay Severin, and Larry King. Hot Talkers Tom Leykis, and Don (Geronimo) & Mike (O'Meara) are also carried on the network. Westwood One distributes the radio news operations of CNN and NBC as well as its corporate cousin, the CBS Radio Network. Don Imus John Donald Imus, Jr. ... For other persons named Bill OReilly, see Bill OReilly (disambiguation). ... Lars Larson (born March 6, 1959 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an Oregon conservative talk radio show host who recently began a national talk radio show on the Westwood One Radio Network. ... Jay Severin (WTKK Publicity Photo) Jay Severin (born James Severino[1][2]) is a conservative talk radio personality on Bostons WTKK-FM (96. ... Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an award-winning American broadcaster. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Don and Mike Show is a nationally syndicated radio talk show hosted by Don Geronimo (real name Mike Sorce) and Mike OMeara. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. ...

Until 2006, Westwood One distributed a number of 24-hour radio formats via satellite to affiliate stations. These formats included:

The 24 hour formats, originally acquired through Westwood One's purchase of Unistar in 1993, were sold in 2006 to Excelsior Radio Network and are now distributed under the Dial Global brand. For the magazine, see Classic Rock Classic Rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the early-1980s. ... CNN Headline News is a spin-off network from the original Cable News Network (CNN) television news network in the United States and Canada. ... Primary Jack FM logo Jack FM is the moniker and on-air brand of several radio stations in Canada, the United States and now the United Kingdom. ... -1... Unistar was a registered trademark (US) for a line of UNIX workstations in the 1980s manufactured by Callan Data Systems. ...

Westwood One syndicates several popular programs for a variety of music formats. Shows include The Beatle Years, Beatle Brunch, CMT's Country Countdown USA, Absolutely Live, Superstar Concert Series, Weekly Country Music Countdown, Country Gold (in most markets, also known as "Country Gold Saturday Night", but also available on Sunday), MTV TRL Weekend Countdown, Off the Record with Joe Benson, VH1 Concerts and Specials, and Out of Order with Jed the Fish. Dr. Demento is often linked with Westwood One even though the network stopped carrying the show in the early 1990s and is now carried on an independent syndicator. CMT can refer to: Cadmium Mercury Telluride Canal Metropolitano TelevisiÃ³n Catalog Management Table Certified Market Technician Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease Childrens Musical Theatreworks of Fresno, California Chip Multi Threading Comision del Mercado de las Telecommunicaciones, the Spanish communications industry regulator. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... Total Request Live (commonly known as TRL) is the flagship television series on MTV that features popular music videos. ... Dr. Demento (born April 2, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the stage name of Barret Eugene Hansen [1], who has made a successful career as a radio disc jockey specializing in novelty songs and pop music parodies. ...

Westwood One is most notable for its coverage of live events. The company broadcasts live concerts, college football and NHL hockey games, and also holds exclusive national radio rights for many National Football League games, the Olympic Games, the NCAA Basketball Tournament (along with corporate sibling CBS TV), the Masters golf and Wimbledon tennis tournaments, Notre Dame football games, and the GRAMMY Awards. A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... NHL redirects here. ... For other uses of National Football League, see National Football League (disambiguation). ... The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... // The NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States. ... The Masters Tournament, commonly referred to as The Masters or The US Masters (outside the United States), is one of four major championships in mens professional golf and the first to occur every year. ... The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly referred to as simply Wimbledon, is the oldest event in the sport of tennis. ... This article is about the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards, commonly referred to as the Grammys) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in the record industry. ...

The company was founded by Norman J. Pattiz in 1976. At the time, he was a former advertising sales executive with an LA TV station. He was listening to a local radio station doing a Motown weekend, and decided to syndicate "The Sound of Motown" to radio. The show was a success. He added several more shows during the 70s. By 1982, he was distributing his radio shows via satellite through an arrangement with idb Communications in Culver City. Mr. Pattiz took Westwood One public in 1984, and with the money raised by the IPO, he purchased the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1985, and the NBC Radio Network in 1987. Other highlights in the late 80s include the purchase of three radio stations, and the hiring of Casey Kasem from ABC. The company purchased Unistar Radio Networks in 1994, and then purchased Metro Networks in 1996.

Westwood One purchased the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1985 and continued to operate Mutual as a separate network program service into the 1990s. However, by the early 1990's Mutual ended up simply being a brand name for programming provided by Westwood One. Westwood One discontinued using the Mutual name in favor of CNN Radio in 1999 and the Mutual name passed permanently from use on the air. The Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS) was an American radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999. ...

The NBC Radio brand is still occasionally used, most commonly for the hourly newscasts produced by NBC News and for the news magazine First Light. (Imus in the Morning, produced by MSNBC, would also fall under this umbrella.) In addition, Westwood One acquired the radio rights to the short-form feature "Last Night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" from Premiere Radio Networks in 2007, effectively uniting all of NBC's radio productions under one network. NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. Its current president is Steve Capus. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jay Leno (born James Douglas Muir-Leno April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC televisions long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. ... Premiere Radio Networks syndicates some of the most popular radio programs in the United States. ...

Westwood One provides operational, sales and marketing support for the CBS Radio Network, whose properties are owned by the CBS Corporation. The CBS Radio news and sports broadcasts are distributed from the CBS/Westwood One Master Control at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City. The CBS Radio Network provides news, sports and other programming to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. ... CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is an American media conglomerate focused on broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. ... The CBS Broadcast Center is a television and radio production facility located in New York City. ...

Westwood One also provides alternate feeds of NFL football games to Sirius Satellite Radio. Sirius Satellite Radio NASDAQ: SIRI is one of two satellite radio (SDARS) services operating in the United States and Canada, along with XM Satellite Radio. ...

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