Westwood One Appoints Jonathan S. Marshall Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Strategic Development

Westwood One Appoints Jonathan S. Marshall Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Strategic Development

NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westwood One (NYSE:WON) announced today the appointment of Jonathan S. Marshall to Executive Vice President - Business Affairs and Strategic Development. Marshall, a Los Angeles based entertainment attorney, will oversee the business side of Westwood One's expansion into a broader content arena while continuing to work on the Company's core broadcast, traffic and archive assets.

"Westwood One is one of the great under utilized entertainment brands with tremendous content offerings," said Marshall. "Tom Beusse is a gifted brand enhancer and motivated CEO. The opportunity to work at Westwood One during this dynamic time as it expands its content offerings is truly exciting."

"Marshall's deal knowledge of the entertainment and intellectual property space provides us with expertise in areas where the Company expects rapid growth in the coming months," said Tom Beusse, President and CEO of Westwood One. "His appointment is consistent with our goals to move Westwood One into the broader content space."

Prior to joining Westwood One, Mr. Marshall operated his own law firm where he represented a broad range of entertainment clients including, film; internet and music companies along with independent financiers; bond companies and producers. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for RKO Pictures as well as for Shooting Gallery. Marshall also worked as an associate for Loeb and Loeb. He began his career at Shearman & Sterling LLP and, in addition to his entertainment legal background, Marshall also has a working knowledge of the traffic broadcast business as his father, John Marshall, was an early pioneer on radio traffic networks.

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.

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Source: Westwood One

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

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

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