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