WESTWOOD ONE
EXPANDS
TROUBLESHOOTER TOM MARTINO

-- The Program Will Now Air Monday - Friday from 10a.m. - 2p.m. ET --


New York - August 1, 2005 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) announced today that Troubleshooter Tom Martino, hosted by leading consumer advocate Tom Martino, has been expanded from three to four hours beginning Monday, August 15, 2005. The program will now air Monday - Friday from 10a.m. - 2p.m. ET, and will replace The Joe Scarborough Show, as Joe Scarborough takes a hiatus.

Troubleshooter Tom Martino is a consumer advocate serving listeners nationwide. His dynamic, high-energy caller-driven program features segments like Sleaze Brigade, which exposes bad business practices, and Deadbeat Hall of Shame, which names absentee parents who don’t pay child support. Tom’s Help Center, staffed by consumer counselors, researches and solves problems that callers bring to him. The Troubleshooter and his staff have recovered millions in cash, merchandise, exchanges, refunds, credits and services for the public. Troubleshooter Tom Martino airs on over 215 stations nationwide, including WTNT-AM Washington, WALR-AM/WFOM-AM Atlanta, KHOW-AM Denver, WTKK-FM Boston, KEX-AM Portland, and KTRH-AM Houston. Troubleshooter Tom Martino will now air Monday - Friday from 10a.m. - 2p.m. ET.

Westwood One and Joe Scarborough are planning to re-launch The Joe Scarborough Show in an even more competitive time period in January 2006. The former congressman and political analyst for NBC's cable news networks and the Today show will be primed to excel in the upcoming election year.

Westwood One (NYSE: WON) provides over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features, live events and 24/7 Formats. Through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks/Shadow Broadcast Services, Westwood One provides local content to the radio and TV industries including news, sports, weather, traffic, video news services and other information. SmartRoute Systems manages traffic information centers for state and local departments of transportation, and markets traffic and travel content to wireless, Internet, in-vehicle navigation systems and voice portal customers. Westwood One serves more than 5,000 radio stations. Westwood One is managed by Infinity Broadcasting Corporation.


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For press information contact:

 

Peter Sessa
Westwood One
212-641-2053
peter_sessa@westwoodone.com