Westwood One News Signs Renewals With CBS Radio, Adds Bloomberg Stations, SiriusXM

Renewals And New Deals

WESTWOOD ONE NEWS has signed CBS RADIO News WINS-A/NEW YORK, KYW-A/PHILADELPHIA, and WBZ-A/BOSTON to contract renewals and has added CBS RADIO News WJR-A/DETROIT and BLOOMBERG RADIO affiliated News WBBR-A/NEW YORK, WDCH/WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE, WXKS-A/BOSTON, and KNEW-A/SAN FRANCISCO as affiliates, as well as SIRIUSXM's P.O.T.U.S. and PROGRESS talk channels.

“We are very pleased to extend our relationship with CBS RADIO and to welcome our new partners at BLOOMBERG and SIRIUSXM to WESTWOOD ONE NEWS,” said WESTWOOD ONE EVP News & Talk BART TESSLER. “This is a significant expansion of the distribution of our news product and testament to the resources we have committed to our breaking news; special reports; custom Q/As; and particularly our newscasts, which are extremely important to our stations and carried throughout the country on our top market CUMULUS and BLOOMBERG affiliates, among others, and nationwide on SIRIUSXM.”

CUMULUS EVP, Corporate Marketing and WESTWOOD ONE President SUZANNE GRIMES added, “We spend a lot of time evaluating marketplace demand and there is a substantial thirst for compelling and credible news content. The high demand WESTWOOD ONE NEWS service allows stations to leverage customized news content with greater flexibility and local branding opportunities and we are honored to partner with CBS RADIO, BLOOMBERG, and SIRIUSXM, the most innovative and trusted brands in radio news.”

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