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WESTWOOD ONE ANNOUNCES ROWDY YATES AS NEW HOST OF COUNTRY GOLD
New York, NY – November 15, 2006 – Westwood One (NYSE: WON), First In Country, is pleased to announce legendary Country radio personality Rowdy Yates as the new host of Country Gold, beginning Saturday, November 18, 2006. In addition to Country Gold, Yates will continue as host of Westwood One’s Country Six Pack, which provides six holiday specials for country radio on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.
Westwood One’s Country Gold is the 5-hour, weekly phone party with artists and listeners airing Saturdays from 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Midnight (ET) with a re-feed on Sundays. Country Gold features classic country hits from artists including George Strait, Merle Haggard, Waylon & Willie, Alabama and more.
“Rowdy Yates was born for radio,” said Max Krasny, SVP Programming for Westwood One. “His Texas sized voice and personality are the perfect fit for Country Gold and we are confident that Rowdy will help to catapult this already stellar show to the next level.”
Rowdy Yates was born in Ft. Worth and is the son of legendary Texas newsman Joe Holstead. Rowdy has been in broadcasting since the age of 10, when he first appeared on shows in the Dallas area. His first real radio job was operating the control board during Sunday morning programs at KDNT in Denton, Texas. Rowdy has traveled the south during his career, with stops in Denton, College Station, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City. He arrived in Houston in 1994 as the afternoon air personality at KIKK and moved to sister station KILT in 1997. Rowdy was named as Houston's Best Country Music DJ in the July 2002 edition of Inside Houston Magazine and has been nominated twice for the Academy of Country Music's Disc Jockey of the Year award. Rowdy can be heard weekdays from 3-7pm on KILT.
Westwood One (NYSE: WON) provides over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events. 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. For more information please visit westwoodone.com.
New York, NY – November 15, 2006 – Westwood One (NYSE: WON), First In Country, is pleased to announce legendary Country radio personality Rowdy Yates as the new host of Country Gold, beginning Saturday, November 18, 2006. In addition to Country Gold, Yates will continue as host of Westwood One’s Country Six Pack, which provides six holiday specials for country radio on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s.
Westwood One’s Country Gold is the 5-hour, weekly phone party with artists and listeners airing Saturdays from 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Midnight (ET) with a re-feed on Sundays. Country Gold features classic country hits from artists including George Strait, Merle Haggard, Waylon & Willie, Alabama and more.
“Rowdy Yates was born for radio,” said Max Krasny, SVP Programming for Westwood One. “His Texas sized voice and personality are the perfect fit for Country Gold and we are confident that Rowdy will help to catapult this already stellar show to the next level.”
Rowdy Yates was born in Ft. Worth and is the son of legendary Texas newsman Joe Holstead. Rowdy has been in broadcasting since the age of 10, when he first appeared on shows in the Dallas area. His first real radio job was operating the control board during Sunday morning programs at KDNT in Denton, Texas. Rowdy has traveled the south during his career, with stops in Denton, College Station, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City. He arrived in Houston in 1994 as the afternoon air personality at KIKK and moved to sister station KILT in 1997. Rowdy was named as Houston's Best Country Music DJ in the July 2002 edition of Inside Houston Magazine and has been nominated twice for the Academy of Country Music's Disc Jockey of the Year award. Rowdy can be heard weekdays from 3-7pm on KILT.
Westwood One (NYSE: WON) provides over 150 news, sports, music, talk, entertainment programs, features and live events. 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. For more information please visit westwoodone.com.