Westwood One Appoints Stephen Chessare Senior Vice President of Sales

NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westwood One (NYSE: WON)
announced today the appointment of Stephen Chessare to Senior Vice President
of Sales, effective June 30, 2008. In his newly created position, Chessare
will work closely with Chief Revenue Officer Andrew Hersam in managing
advertising and sponsorship sales across all Westwood One divisions -- radio,
television, events and digital -- on both the local and national levels.
"We're extremely pleased to have Steve join the advertising and marketing
team at Westwood One," said Hersam. "We've followed Steve's successful career
since he helped Clear Channel's WLTW-FM become the number one billing radio
station in New York City for eight consecutive years and the number one
billing radio station in the world five of the last seven years. Steve brings
a wealth of experience that fits perfectly with Westwood One's leadership
position in radio content and which will complement and add firepower to our
team as we pursue an aggressive expansion across new and evolving media
platforms."
"After 25 years in the radio business, I'm a firm believer in the power of
the medium as a means to innovative, measurable solutions for advertisers,"
said Mr. Chessare. "That said, I'm thrilled to be joining Westwood One as it
embraces what I believe to be the future of our business: Delivering great
content over multiple platforms to engage consumers. When well executed,
there is no better solution for marketers."
Chessare joins Westwood One from Clear Channel, where as General Manager
of WLTW he drove the station to unprecedented growth, firmly establishing WLTW
as the number one top revenue generating station in the United States.
Previously, Chessare served as Vice President/General Manager for CBS Radio
Sales, where he oversaw 11 offices of national account executives representing
63 radio stations owned by CBS and Jefferson Pilot.
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

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