Westwood One
| Westwood One | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Incorporated |
| ISIN | US9618151073 |
| founding | 2006 |
| Seat | New York City , New York , United States |
| management | Bob Pittman ( CEO ) |
| Branch | Media (radio programs) |
| Website | www.westwoodone.com |
Westwood One, Inc. is a content syndication and program marketing company of the US media group Cumulus Media . The company is the second largest program supplier for the approximately 15,000 radio stations in the United States .
history
Westwood One was founded in 1974 by Norman J. Pattiz. Pattiz had been fired from his job as sales manager for a TV station in Los Angeles and was considering a new business model for the media industry. He recognized the lack of suitable distribution structures for commercial national programs for local and regional stations. He later sold the company. It initially belonged to CBS Radio , the radio division of CBS Corporation and Viacom . At the end of the 1990s, around 1,500 radio stations were using Westwood One's services as contractors. In, the company went to Dial Global through the Gores Group . In 2013 the company got its old name and entered into a cooperation with Cumulus Media, the second largest owner of US radio stations. Today, Westwood One combines the original Westwood One and Cumulus’s own Cumulus Media Network .
Disseminated content
Westwood One broadcasts programs from the fields of music and entertainment, talk and sports throughout the US. The NFL coverage including the Super Bowl will be broadcast via Westwood One Sports . Westwood One also distributes all of the content on Fox News Radio and CBS News Radio .
Talk hosts
The most famous hosts are the conservative moderators Mark Levin (4th place in Talkers Magazine 2016), Michael Savage (7th place in Talkers Magazine 2016) and Jim Bohannon (17th place).
Mark Levin, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ A b History of Westwood One, Inc. - FundingUniverse. In: www.fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved December 14, 2016 .
- ^ President Trump to be Interviewed by Jim Gray on Westwood One's Super Bowl Broadcast. Retrieved February 7, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ Fox News Radio: TALKERS.COM. In: www.talkers.com. Retrieved November 15, 2016 .
- ^ CBS Radio News - Westwood One. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 11, 2017 ; Retrieved January 23, 2018 (American English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.talkers.com/heavy-hundred/
