United Stations Radio Networks
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| Type | Mass media |
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| Country | United States |
| Availability | Distributed nationally and internationally by affiliates |
| Headquarters | 1065 Avenue of the Americas in New York, New York |
Key people | Dick Clark (co-founder), Nicholas J. Verbitsky (co-founder, Chairman and CEO) |
Launch date | 1994 |
Official website |
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United Stations Radio Networks (USRN) is a radio network providing a wide range of programs and programming services for radio stations across the US and elsewhere. It is based in New York City.
Some of its most popular offerings are Rewind with Gary Bryan, Nights With Alice Cooper, The House of Hair, various programs hosted by Tom Kent, Lex and Terry, HardDrive/HardDriveXL with Lou Brutus, Absolutely 80s with Nina Blackwood, Open House Party, Dick Bartley's Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits, The Classic Countdown Show, Bloomberg Radio, the Pulse of Radio morning prep service, Rick Jackson's Country Classics (added 2012), and reruns of Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember and the daily Music Calendar. The network also co-manages, along with Clear Channel Communications, the Your Smooth Jazz network provided by Broadcast Architecture. United Stations also specializes in comedy services for radio. The station also provides a weather network; since 2009, the company has distributed Accuweather's forecasts (taking over the distribution from Westwood One). Previously, Al Roker and John Wetherbee ran USRN's weather division. The company also distributes Touchdown Radio Productions' college football broadcasts.
The company was founded in February 1994 by pop icon Dick Clark and radio veteran Nick Verbitsky. Verbitsky continues to serve as the company's CEO, and Andy Denemark serves as the Vice President of Programming, and plays a large role in company contributions.
The similarly named "United Stations Radio Network" (singular), also founded by Clark and Verbitsky in 1980, bought the RKO Radio Network and eventually was absorbed by CBS Radio and Westwood One.