Westwood One Appoints Richard J. Kosinski Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer

Westwood One Appoints Richard J. Kosinski Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer

NEW YORK, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westwood One (NYSE:WON) announced today the appointment of Richard J. Kosinski to Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer. Kosinski will be responsible for the company's digital product offerings including news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events. He will oversee all product and business development in the digital area.

"As we transition into a truly platform agnostic content provider, the digital arena represents the new frontier," said Tom Beusse, President and CEO of Westwood One. "Richard has had great success within several best in class digital companies. This prepares him well to lead the charge for Westwood One. He is an example of our commitment to becoming a home for top talent in all phases of our business."

"Westwood One is a well recognized brand with an amazing collection of long-standing relationships and assets," said Kosinski. "I'm honored to help lead the Company's transformation from an analog platform to a digital one."

Prior to joining Westwood One, Richard worked for Yahoo! as the Vice President of political advertising, where he lead the initiative to leverage the Company's large audience and create new tools to help political candidates and issues organizations. Under his leadership the newly created division achieved the #1 position in online political display advertising within the first nine months of operation. Richard also served Yahoo! as category development officer for business and finance, and lead the firm's largest advertising category to create effective online ad platforms for the firm's business & finance clients. Kosinski has 20 years of experience in providing strategic communications direction for some of the world's largest firms in the U.S., Asia and Europe, including a ten-year stint as a leader of advertising sales at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. Richard has also been involved in starting numerous successful media properties including WSJ.com, SmartMoney, The Asian Wall Street Journal's Personal Journal, Yahoo! Finance's Personal Finance channel, and Forbes.com's Business and Lifestyle sections.

About Westwood One

Westwood One (NYSE:WON) is a platform-agnostic content company providing over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events to numerous media partners. Through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks/Shadow Broadcast Services, Westwood One provides local content to the radio and TV industries and to the Web. This content includes 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. For more information please visit www.westwoodone.com .

Source: Westwood One

CONTACT: Media, Matthew Hesselson of Westwood One, +1-212-641-2045,
matthew_hesselson@westwoodone.com

Web site:

http://www.westwoodone.com/

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