"As we transition into a truly platform agnostic content provider, the
digital arena represents the new frontier," said
"Westwood One is a well recognized brand with an amazing collection of long-standing relationships and assets," said Kosinski. "I'm honored to help lead the Company's transformation from an analog platform to a digital one."
Prior to joining Westwood One, Richard worked for Yahoo! as the Vice
President of political advertising, where he lead the initiative to leverage
the Company's large audience and create new tools to help political candidates
and issues organizations. Under his leadership the newly created division
achieved the #1 position in online political display advertising within the
first nine months of operation. Richard also served Yahoo! as category
development officer for business and finance, and lead the firm's largest
advertising category to create effective online ad platforms for the firm's
business & finance clients. Kosinski has 20 years of experience in providing
strategic communications direction for some of the world's largest firms in
the U.S.,
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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