GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Townsquare
Media, Inc. (NYSE: TSQ) ("Townsquare" or the "Company") announced
today that the Company has received two nominations for the 2018
Country Music Association ("CMA") Broadcast Awards. Country 106.5
WYRK-FM, Townsquare's market-leading country radio station in
Buffalo, NY, has been selected as
a finalist for the Radio Station of the Year in the Medium Market
category. This is WYRK's second nomination for this
honor. In addition, The Good Morning Guys (Todd Harding, Susan
Moore, and Brian Gary), who
appear on Townsquare's K99 KUAD-FM in Fort Collins, CO, have been nominated as
finalists for the Broadcast Personality of the Year in the Small
Market category. The trio is a previous winner of this award
and were inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2017.
The Company has previously noted that WE Fest, its annual
multi-day country music and camping festival in Detroit Lakes, MN, was nominated for an
Academy of Country Music Award as Festival of the Year, and that
94.5 WPST-FM in Princeton, NJ and
NJ 101.5 WKXW-FM in Trenton, NJ
were named as finalists for the 2018 NAB Marconi Radio Awards,
honoring excellence in broadcasting.
"We are incredibly proud of our group of industry honorees this
year – WYRK, WPST, NJ 101.5, the Good Morning Guys, and WE Fest,"
said Erik Hellum, Chief Operating
Officer, Local Media of Townsquare. "It is particularly
special for us to be recognized in country music, where our
commitment to the format is considerable as a premier local
advertising, marketing solutions, and entertainment platform in
small and mid-sized markets across the
United States."
About Townsquare Media, Inc.
Townsquare is a radio,
digital media, entertainment and digital marketing solutions
company principally focused on being the premier local advertising
and marketing solutions platform in small and mid-sized markets
across the U.S. Our assets include 320 radio stations and more than
330 local websites in 67 U.S. markets, a digital marketing
solutions company (Townsquare Interactive) serving approximately
13,650 small to medium sized businesses, a proprietary digital
programmatic advertising platform (Townsquare Ignite) and
approximately 200 live events with over one million attendees each
year. Our brands include local media assets such as WYRK,
KLAQ, K2 and NJ101.5; iconic regional and
national events such as the Taste of Country Music Festival, WE
Fest, Country Jam, the Boise Music Festival, the Red
Dirt BBQ & Music Festival and Taste of Fort Collins;
and leading tastemaker music and entertainment websites such as
XXLmag.com, TasteofCountry.com and
Loudwire.com. For more information, please visit
www.townsquaremedia.com, www.townsquareinteractive.com, and
www.townsquareignite.com.
Investor Relations
Claire
Yenicay
(203) 900-5555
investors@townsquaremedia.com
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