NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westwood One announced today the appointment of Stephen Chessare to Senior Vice President of Sales, effective June 30, 2008. In his newly created position, Chessare will work closely with Chief Revenue Officer Andrew Hersam in managing advertising and sponsorship sales across all Westwood One divisions -- radio, television, events and digital -- on both the local and national levels.
"We're extremely pleased to have Steve join the advertising and marketing team at Westwood One," said Hersam. "We've followed Steve's successful career since he helped Clear Channel's WLTW-FM become the number one billing radio station in New York City for eight consecutive years and the number one billing radio station in the world five of the last seven years. Steve brings a wealth of experience that fits perfectly with Westwood One's leadership position in radio content and which will complement and add firepower to our team as we pursue an aggressive expansion across new and evolving media platforms."
"After 25 years in the radio business, I'm a firm believer in the power of the medium as a means to innovative, measurable solutions for advertisers," said Mr. Chessare. "That said, I'm thrilled to be joining Westwood One as it embraces what I believe to be the future of our business: Delivering great content over multiple platforms to engage consumers. When well executed, there is no better solution for marketers."
Chessare joins Westwood One from Clear Channel, where as General Manager of WLTW he drove the station to unprecedented growth, firmly establishing WLTW as the number one top revenue generating station in the United States. Previously, Chessare served as Vice President/General Manager for CBS Radio Sales, where he oversaw 11 offices of national account executives representing 63 radio stations owned by CBS and Jefferson Pilot.
About Westwood One
Westwood One 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 http://www.westwoodone.com/.
