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WESTWOOD ONE
UNVEILS THE NEW
WESTWOODONE.COM
-- Newly Redesigned Website Now Offers Audio Highlights of Westwood One
Programming, Downloadable Podcasts and Exclusive Westwood One Content
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New York, NY December
6, 2005 -Westwood One (NYSE: WON) announced today the unveiling of the
newly redesigned website at www.westwoodone.com.
The vastly improved company homepage is more user-friendly and provides
detailed information on all Westwood One programming and services, with
many newly added and enhanced features. For more than thirty years, Westwood
One has provided compelling radio content to over 200 million listeners
each day. Now, listeners can log on to enjoy 24-hour access with Westwood
One in real time.
The new website will offer
many exciting and informative features, such as:
• Audio highlights from some of the Company’s best programming
• Web-exclusive interviews with Westwood One talent
• Daily updated CBS Radio News audio, plus specials such as last
week’s “The Record Breaking Hurricane Season”
• A subscription to the Westwood One “Studio Pass,”
allowing premium members exclusive content from Westwood One’s high
profile programs
• Downloadable podcasts of exclusive celebrity interviews
• Streaming of behind-the-scenes audio and video from the biggest
events in entertainment
• Daily updated host calendars
• Interactive polls
• Online promotions
All consumer and affiliate-related
features from the previous website have been incorporated and updated
to enhance the user’s online experience at www.westwoodone.com.
In the coming months, visitors to the site can look forward to additional
content and interactive features that will continue to explore the many
facets of news, entertainment and sports provided by Westwood One.
“The goal of the new
westwoodone.com is to inform, entertain and provide online interaction
with Westwood One's vast radio audience,” said Robert Hyman, Westwood
One VP-New Media. “We are looking forward to rolling out new content,
promotions and features in the coming weeks and months.”
"This is very exciting
to be able to bring CBS Radio's award-winning news coverage to an even
wider audience," said Harvey Nagler, CBS News, Vice President for
Radio. "Now anyone, anywhere with Internet access can hear actual
CBS Radio News reports right on their computer, from breaking news to
exclusive features."
The development of the site
was done in conjunction with Nox Solutions, specialists in bringing the
radio industry into the internet age.
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. For more information visit www.westwoodone.com.
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