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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. Some of its most popular offerings are Dick Clark's Rock, Roll & Remember, the daily Music Calendar, Nights With Alice Cooper, The House of Hair, Lou Dobbs Radio and the Lou Dobbs Financial Minute, Hard Drive/Hard Drive XL, Absolutely 80s with Nina Blackwood, Crook & Chase Top 40 Countdown, the TKO Radio Network, Bloomberg Radio's "The First Word" and the Pulse of Radio morning prep service. United Stations also specializes in comedy services for radio.

United Stations partners with Univision Radio for Spanish-language broadcasts of National Football League games.

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.

The similarly named "United Stations Radio Networks," also founded by Clark and Verbitsky in 1980, bought the RKO Radio Networks and eventually was absorbed by CBS Radio and Westwood One.