What the heck is Westwood One?
Westwood One produces 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 radio and television stations with news, sports, weather, traffic, video news services and other information. The SmartRoute Systems division 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. In all, Westwood One serves more than 7,700 radio stations. Westwood One is headquartered in Culver City, CA, with studios there and in nearby Valencia, CA, plus shared studio locations in New York, NY, and Washington, DC. Westwood One is an independent public company (NYSE: WON) whose largest corporate investor is CBS Radio, the wholly-owned radio division of the CBS Corporation. In addition, CBS Radio manages Westwood One’s as