UNITED STATIONS RADIO NETWORKS, INC.
SIGNS DISTRIBUTION AND SALES AGREEMENT WITH AccuWeather, Inc.
100+ Affiliates On Board Including WINS/New York, KFWB-AM/Los Angeles, KDKA/Pittsburgh
New York, NY – April 2, 2009 -- United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. (“USRN”), an independent leader in the creation and marketing of network radio programming, today announced a partnership with AccuWeather, Inc., the world's leading and best-known weather media firm. The multi-year partnership agreement calls for United Stations to serve as AccuWeather’s affiliate relations and advertising sales arm throughout the domestic U.S. This announcement comes jointly from USRN’s President/COO Jim Higgins and AccuWeather’s COO and long-time radio personality, Evan Myers.
Based in State College, PA, AccuWeather has been supplying radio stations with accurate and reliable weather broadcasts since 1971. In addition to providing trusted content from a highly-respected team of meteorologists, AccuWeather’s success in radio has resulted from their ability to localize and customize their daily broadcasts. Regardless of a radio station’s format, the AccuWeather team can deliver reports and weather-related tools that enhance the station’s ability to serve local listeners, national advertisers and local businesses.
In making this announcement, USRN’s Jim Higgins expressed enormous enthusiasm regarding the new partnership agreement. “AccuWeather is known and trusted globally by millions of direct and indirect consumers. In radio, AccuWeather’s service is critical to the affiliates and is a key ingredient in differentiating radio stations in a highly competitive landscape.” Higgins added, “AccuWeather is an essential content provider and as a result is a tremendously exciting partner.”
AccuWeather’s Evan Myers also noted “We are excited about our partnership with United Stations as we cross the bridge with radio stations into new media – an area of special expertise for AccuWeather. United Stations is one of the top radio networks and we believe this partnership will help radio stations to build and retain listeners.”
AccuWeather, Inc. is the parent company of AccuWeather and AccuWeather.com. The company is The World's Weather Authority®, presenting accurate, localized, branded forecasts and severe weather bulletins to over 110 million Americans each day via the Internet, mobile devices and IPTV, through the airwaves, in print and on digital signage. The 113 meteorologists at AccuWeather deliver a portfolio of customized products and services to media, business, government, and institutions, and inform millions of visitors worldwide through the free AccuWeather.com website. AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 200,000 third-party Internet sites, including CNN Interactive and ABC's owned and operated stations, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Visit
www.accuweather.com for more information.
United Stations Radio Networks, Inc., United Stations Radio Networks, Inc. is the largest independently owned and operated radio network in the U.S. The company maintains offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington and Nashville and services programming to over 4,500 rated radio stations across the country. The New York-based company was founded in 1994 by Dick Clark and Nick Verbitsky.
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