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CORPORATE PROFILE
CBS RADIO is one of the largest major-market radio operators in the United States, with stations covering news, sports, talk, rock, country, Top 40, classic hits, and urban formats, among others. The division operates 130 radio stations, all but one of which are located in the nation's top 50 markets. The overall mix of each radio station's programming is designed to fit the station's specific format and serve its local community.
CBS RADIO is home to the nation’s most listened to news (1010 WINS), sports (WFAN-AM), rock (KROQ-FM) and country (WUSN-FM) stations, and broadcasts play-by-play coverage of more than two dozen of the country's leading sports franchises amongst MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA and the NHL, including the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Chicago Bears and Detroit Red Wings.
Additionally, CBS RADIO continues to be a leader in the industry in the digital space making aggressive moves to converge new and traditional media through creative original content and advanced delivery methods. Audio streams of nearly 200 CBS RADIO stations and custom channels are currently available online and via applications for a variety of mobile devices including iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Blackberry and Zune. The division also maintains an exclusive agreement with AOL and Yahoo! through which CBS RADIO powers AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio and distributes its stations to its network of listeners.
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CBS RADIO FACTS AT A GLANCE
Headquartered in New York City
130 Stations; all but one in the top 50 markets
Variety of programming covering over 20 different formats
Home to the nation's most listened to news, sports, rock and country formatted stations (1010 WINS, WFAN-AM, KROQ-FM and WUSN-FM, respectively)
CBS RADIO features well known and top rated radio personalities such as WFAN’s Mike Francesa and Boomer and Carton, WXRK's Nick Cannon, KAMP's Carson Daly, KROQ’s Kevin and Bean and WYSP's Danny Bonaduce
Online audio streams available for all 130 stations, as well as a number of custom channels
In excess of 100 stations broadcasting in HD; more than 80 operating an HD2 channel; more than 30 HD3 channels; and the nation's first HD4 channel
Home to over two dozen of the country's leading professional sports team franchises
CBS RADIO powers AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music, offering listeners access to over 600 streaming radio stations
CBS RADIO’s digital assets including websites and mobile applications are a part of the CBS Interactive Music Group, which also includes Last.fm and reaches more than 45 million unique monthly users worldwide
All of CBS RADIO’s streaming stations are available via the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and select Blackberry devices
About 8% of CBS RADIO’s streaming listeners listen via an iPhone/iPod Touch
Since July 2008, apps powered by the CBS Interactive Music Group have been downloaded on the iPhone or iPod touch over 13 million times
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