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CORPORATE PROFILE
CBS RADIO is one of the largest major-market operators in the United States with stations covering news, sports, talk, rock, oldies, country, adult contemporary and urban formats, among others. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO owns and operates 130 radio stations, all but one of which are 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 continues to make aggressive moves to converge new and traditional media through creative programming and advanced delivery methods, including online streaming, HD Radio, mobile messaging and podcasting. Audio streams of nearly 200 CBS RADIO stations and custom channels are currently available online, and two thirds of the Company's stations are broadcasting in HD digital radio. Additionally, the division maintains an exclusive agreement with both AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio through which CBS RADIO powers AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio and distributes its stations to its network of listeners.
Additionally, CBS RADIO is home to over 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, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears and the Detroit Red Wings.
Further enhancing CBS RADIO's programming exposure is the Company's long-standing alliance with Westwood One, which provides stations with news, sports, weather, music, talk and entertainment programming and content, and presents an unparalleled menu of events such as the Olympic Games, NFL football, NCAA basketball, including the Men's Basketball Championship, The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Grammy Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards.
In addition, CBS RADIO owns the CBS Radio Network, with sales and affiliate relations handled by Westwood One. The CBS Radio Network provides premier hourly newscasts to more than 1500 news and news/talk formatted stations. CBS features, including the award-winning Charles Osgood File and Harry Smith Reporting, and 24-hour a day, seven days a week news coverage from CBS correspondents around the nation and the world, complement the Network.
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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 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, KROQ’s Kevin and Bean and KTWV’s Brian McKnight
Online audio streams available for nearly 200 stations and custom channels
In excess of 100 stations broadcasting in HD; more than 75 operating an HD2 channel and 20 HD3 channels
Home to over two dozen of the country's leading professional sports team franchises
CBS RADIO powers AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio, offering listeners access to over 500 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 almost 40 million unique monthly users worldwide
All of CBS RADIO’s streaming stations are available via the iPhone, iPod Touch and select Blackberry devices through the AOL Radio or Yahoo! Music Radio applications
8-10% of CBS RADIO’s streaming listeners listen via an iPhone/iPod Touch
Over five million combined listeners have downloaded the AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio iPhone applications powered by CBS RADIO, while over one million have downloaded the Last.fm iPhone application
At peak, CBS RADIO reaches more than 400,000 concurrent listeners
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