Westwood One News Expands Reach, Coverage

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, March 6, 2017

Westwood One News is answering the call for locally branded, credible news and information by expanding its reach. The network announced Monday that it has grown its coverage and listener base with the renewal of CBS Radio outlets WINS/New York, KYW/Philadelphia, WBZ/Boston, and the addition of WWJ/Detroit. Westwood One News can now also be heard across Bloomberg major market stations WBBR-AM/New York, WDCH-FM, Washington DC, WXKS-AM/Boston, and KNEW-AM/San Francisco. After just two years on the air, Westwood One News is now on 700 affiliates.

"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 Executive VP/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."

Suzanne Grimes, EVP/Corporate Marketing, Cumulus and Westwood One's President 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."