United Stations Radio Networks is a young company with a long history. The Company started in February, 1994 with the purchase of DB Communications, a radio comedy services company. Its history, however, stretches back to 1981. It was in 1981 that American pop icon Dick Clark joined with Nick Verbitsky, the Chief Operating Officer at Mutual Radio, to form United Stations. The new company's first show wasDick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember, a show moved over from Mutual. From that beginning, United Stations grew in a span of only 12 years to become one of the country's top three radio networks. That growth was achieved by a combination of astute management, intimate knowledge of the network radio business, strategic acquisitions, and a lot of sweat equity. The growth of United Stations featured several key events. The first was in 1985. United Stations acquired the RKO Radio Networks, a once proud name that had fallen on very hard times. In short order, the deluge of red ink was halted, and a substantially bigger and stronger company remained.

In 1987, United Stations entered into an advertising sales and marketing alliance with Transtar Radio Networks. This alliance worked so well that in 1989, the two companies merged. The new entity became known as Unistar Communications. Nick Verbitsky remained as the CEO. The United Stations name was mothballed. In 1993, Unistar merged with the Westwood One Radio Network. In 1994, Dick Clark and Nick Verbitsky decided to do it all over again. They reacquired the United Stations name and formed The United Stations Radio Networks. Two of Dick Clark's radio programs were moved over and three other weekend music shows were quickly added. The comedy services that had been a part of DB Communications blossomed with the help of the United Stations name and management savvy. In three years, revenues in this area grew ten fold, thanks in large part to programming and commercial deals struck with Comedy Central, Maya Angelou and Fox Broadcasting. An important step in the growth of the new United Stations was bringing the sales effort in-house in November of 1995. The former head of sales for Unistar/Westwood One, Jim Higgins, was brought on board to lead this effort. It is no coincidence that sales increased 85% in the next year. Furthermore, with an in-house sales staff, United Stations now also represents the sales effort for selected independent client/producers of programming. April, 1996, saw United Stations expand into the talk radio business by acquiring the Major Talk Network. The Talk Network was broadcast live via satellite direct from the company's studios on 45th Street in Manhattan. After growing the network's Monday thru Friday lineup and adding weekend programming, United Stations struck a deal with The Talk America Radio Networks based in Canton, MA for the continued production and distribution of most of its Talk properties. USRN continues to sell advertising time for those shows as well as for Talk America's two full 24-hour networks. United Stations has grown from a small start-up of five people to a company with $10 million in Gross Sales, a full time staff of nearly 40 people, plus a host of associated writers, producers, and performers serving over 2,500 affiliate stations. Official company locations now include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, Nashville and Raleigh. With a stepped-up sales force and an array of new programming ideas, we feel confident when we say this is only the beginning.