Westwood One Elevates David Halberstam to EVP/GM of Westwood One Sports

NEW YORK, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westwood One announced today that, effective immediately David Halberstam assumes newly created role of EVP/General Manager of Westwood One Sports. In this role, Halberstam will oversee production, programming, sponsorship sales and strategy related to Westwood One's vast portfolio of play-by-play sports and sports talk programming. Halberstam will continue to be based in Miami and report directly to Westwood One President & CEO Peter Kosann.

"Westwood One boasts a tremendous year-round platform of marquee sports programming," said Kosann. "The time has come for one main point person to oversee all aspects of our sports business. David is a proven winner who will work with our partners, talent, affiliates, and advertisers to maximize the full potential of our sports assets."

"It is an honor to assume this new role," said Halberstam. "I look forward to working in a spirit of collaboration and partnership with our professional sports leagues, the NCAA and Notre Dame, our dynamic talent, affiliates, sponsors, and my fellow colleagues."

David Halberstam joined Westwood One in 1999 as VP of Sports Sales and rose to Sr. VP of Sports Sales and Marketing. Prior to Westwood One, Halberstam held numerous sales management and management positions, including Director of Corporate Sales for the Miami Heat, President of Word Picture Sports (radio rights holder of the NY Knicks and NY Rangers) and VP of Sports for Katz Radio Group. In addition, Halberstam also served as the play-by-play voice of St. John's University Basketball for 10 years (heard on WCBS-AM, and WFAN-AM New York) and play-by-play voice of the Miami Heat for six seasons. In 1999, Halberstam authored the book Sports on New York Radio: A Play-by-Play History published by Masters Press. Halberstam currently resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife Donna and three children.

Westwood One is the leader in play-by-play sports broadcasts on radio. Westwood One's sports lineup includes regular season NFL football, the Playoffs and the Super Bowl; Notre Dame Football; NCAA Football and Basketball including the Final Four; NHL Hockey and the Stanley Cup Championship; the Olympics; U.S. Open Golf; the PGA Championship; and the Master's Golf Tournament and the 2006 Ryder Cup.

Westwood One provides 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 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.