Westwood One News was a radio news network launched on January 1, 2015, and operated by

Westwood One Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming. The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The compan ...

through its parent company

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. Using audio from

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reports and correspondents, and anchored by Cumulus employees, it provided radio stations with hourly newscasts as well as voiced reports that could be individually used by member stations. It was discontinued on August 30, 2020. Unlike most radio networks, the programming was unbranded as a " white-label" service with no mention of either Westwood One or CNN. The anchors and correspondents simply gave their names without saying what service they worked for. That way, Westwood One News could be carried under the station's local branding. For example, many

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-branded

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ran the content under the title "Nash News."

About

Months after Cumulus acquired Westwood One in 2013, merging it with the former Cumulus Media Networks, the radio network acquired exclusive content from

. The news division was created months before Cumulus' deal with ABC News Radio was set to expire at the end of 2014. Until then, most Cumulus radio stations (including the former ABC-owned heritage stations carried over from the

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acquisition) used ABC News as their national news source. Cumulus also replaced the former

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service previously distributed by the original

network, which was acquired under the "Dial Global" name in 2012. NBC News Radio had replaced Westwood One's

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service several years earlier. Westwood One also distributed

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until December 2017. Most of the first affiliates were Cumulus Media-owned stations, however as of February 2019 the network had expanded to over 900 affiliates. On July 9, 2020, citing "extraordinary circumstances in the current marketplace" and a need to prioritize the company's resources, Westwood One announced that the service would be discontinued on August 30. Its final newscast aired at 11:30 p.m. ET that night. Most former affiliates--mostly Cumulus News and Talk stations--reaffiliated with ABC News Radio while a handful of others changed affiliations to Fox News Radio.

References

External links

Official website
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