Westwood one letting listeners download popular shows.WESTWOOD One Westwood One, Inc. (NYSE: WON) is the largest radio network in the United States based on programming quantity. It is based in the city of New York, and it is managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation. History The company was founded by Norman J. Inc., the largest radio network in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , is setting its sights on digital dominance, too. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Culver City-based company produces and broadcasts entertainment, news, weather, sports, talk and traffic programming to about 190 million listeners at 7,700 radio stations across the nation. The company's revenues top $500 million each year. Now it will make its most popular shows--"Randy Jackson's Hit List," "Loveline" and "The Osgood Files with Charles Osgood"--available online through digital downloads and audio streaming as well as podcasts. In addition, the content will be available for radio and TV stations' Web sites, PDAs and cell phones. "We want to provide a complete bear hug Bear Hug An offer made by a company to buy the shares of another company that is too high for the board of the target firm to refuse. Notes: If the target company says the merger is okay but they want a higher price, it is called a "teddy bear hug. for the consumer," said Chief Executive Peter Kozann, a goal the network's advertisers are sure to feel warm and fuzzy about. Westwood One is America' top provider of local traffic reports through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks, Shadow Broadcast Services and SmartRoute Systems. The digital offerings will be heavy on personalized traffic information, such as points of congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and accidents on your route to work or home. Westwood One is working with KFWB-AM (980) in Los Angeles to provide cell phone users the opportunity to pay for on-demand traffic service within seconds. Metro Networks currently provides personalized traffic content to more than 100 radio and TV Web sites as well as digital outlets including Yahoo! Maps. |
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