Westwood One and Bill O'Reilly Reach Agreement to Extend FOX News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly

Westwood One and Bill O'Reilly Reach Agreement to Extend FOX News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westwood One (NYSE:WON) announced today that a new agreement has been reached to continue distributing FOX News' The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly nationally. The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, which is produced by FOX News Radio, airs live Monday - Friday from 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. ET.

The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly launched on May 8, 2002 on a record 205 radio stations nationwide, making it the biggest launch in the history of talk radio. The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly has now grown to over 400 stations, in 100 of the top 100 markets, including: WOR-AM New York, KABC-AM Los Angeles, WCKG-FM Chicago, WPHT-AM Philadelphia, KNEW-AM San Francisco, WTKK-FM Boston, KLIF-AM Dallas, WWWT-FM Washington DC, WCNN-AM Atlanta, WALR- AM Atlanta and more. Radio Factor affiliates have experienced dramatic ratings increases since its debut.

In making the announcement, O'Reilly said, "The upcoming presidential elections will be a tremendous time for talk radio and I'm looking forward to being on the air bringing my point of view to millions of Radio Factor listeners."

"We continue to be very committed to Bill and his program," said Peter Kosann, President & CEO, Westwood One. "As the recent announcement of new major market affiliates indicates, The Radio Factor remains a major force in radio and media."

Bill O'Reilly is the host of FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, which is the most-watched cable news program in the United States. In 1996, O'Reilly joined FOX News Channel and began hosting his nightly news analysis program, interviewing top newsmakers, including exclusive interviews with President Bush and other major national and world figures.

The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly focuses on the events and people making headlines, giving listeners nationwide a chance to sound off.

FOX News, headed by Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO, operates FOX News Radio, a 24/7 news service reaching more than ten million listeners a week. The network features a comprehensive hourly five-minute newscast along with one-minute newscasts, breaking-news coverage to affiliate stations nationwide, and four weekday FOX News Talk Shows, Brian and The Judge, The Alan Colmes Show, The John Gibson Show and FOX Across America with Spencer Hughes. Additionally, FOX News also operates FOX News Channel (FNC), the number one cable news channel in the United States for more than five years, FOXNews.com and produces FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace and The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly.

Westwood One (NYSE:WON) provides over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features, live events and 24/7 Formats. Through its subsidiaries, Metro Networks/Shadow Broadcast Services, Westwood One provides local content to the radio and TV industries including 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. Westwood One is managed by CBS Radio.

Source: Westwood One

CONTACT: Peter Sessa of Westwood One, +1-212-641-2053 or
peter_sessa@westwoodone.com

Web site: http://www.westwoodone.com/

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