LARRY KING
JOINS WESTWOOD ONE’S
NFL MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
PRE-GAME SHOW
-- King Will Be A Weekly Contributor to the Pre-Game Show Hosted By Jim Gray --

New York, NY- September 6, 2005-- Westwood One (NYSE: WON) announced today that broadcast legend Larry King will join the Westwood One NFL Monday Night Football pre-game show, along side Jim Gray, for the entire 2005-2006 NFL season.

“I am thrilled to expand my 25-year relationship with Westwood One as a weekly contributor to the Monday Night Football pre-game show with Jim Gray,” said Larry King.

“We have spared no expense in delivering the absolute best NFL Monday Night Football broadcast imaginable, assembling a truly all-star broadcast team, which includes Boomer Esiason and Marv Albert calling the game, John Dockery as sideline reporter, Jim Gray for pre/post and half-time, and now Larry King as a contributor,” said Peter Kosann, Westwood One Co-COO. “This is great news for our advertisers, affiliates and the NFL fans.”

"Larry King is a worldwide icon whose roots in broadcasting can be traced back to the National Football League,” said Jim Gray. “It's great to have him back to talk football with us each week."

With more than 44 years in broadcasting and over 44,000 interviews to his credit, Larry King is one of the most respected personalities in the industry. King, who has been described as the “Muhammad Ali of the broadcast interview,” has been inducted into five of the nation’s leading broadcasting halls of fame. Both his radio and television shows have won the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. King has also won 10 CableACE Awards for Best Interviewer and for Best Talk Show Series. The Emmy Award-winning Larry King Live debuted on CNN television in 1985 with a mix of celebrity interviews, political debates and topical discussion, and is the network’s highest-rated program. Dubbed the “most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever” by TV Guide and “master of the mike” by TIME magazine, King also hosts Larry King Weekend on CNN. In addition, King hosts Westwood One’s simulcast of CNN’s Larry King Live and Last Night on Larry King Live, the two-minute digest of the previous evening’s program.

The Westwood One 2005 NFL broadcast schedule features 54 games, including: the Hall of Fame game, Opening Kickoff game, 16 Monday Night games, 16 Sunday Night games, Thanksgiving Day Doubleheader, Christmas Night Doubleheader, New Year’s Eve Doubleheader, one Saturday Tripleheader, the NFL Playoffs, the AFC and NFC Championship games, Super Bowl XL in Detroit and the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl. Westwood One also delivers specialty programs, including: The NFL Today, NFL Sunday, NFL Preview, NFL Insider, The Madden Minute with John Madden and 3rd and Long with Howie Long.

Westwood One 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. For more information visit www.westwoodone.com.

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