Class of ’27’s Changing Views on Radio

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  • The stone-cold smash hit young demo format no one is doing – and most don’t even know
  • A change in youth attitudes about podcasting
  • 2 places to look to find eager new audiences 
  • Advice from the class of ’27– opportunities bubbling under
  • If you hire them as a consultant, here’s the first thing they will say (after cut the commercials).

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iHeart is Coming After Your Spot Revenue
A Radio Station That Got Music Discovery Right
The Meaning of the “White Noise” Podcast Boom
Music Radio’s Secret Weapon Against Streamers
How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales

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iHeart is Coming After Your Spot Revenue

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  • A blatant push to put a major hurt on competitor’s ad sales
  • How it works
  • The most effective way to respond

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The Effect of Nielsen’s Financial Problems on Radio
A Radio Station That Got Music Discovery Right
The Meaning of the “White Noise” Podcast Boom
Music Radio’s Secret Weapon Against Streamers
How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales

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A Radio Station That Got Music Discovery Right

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  • How they break all the rules, attract loyal audiences and generate lots of revenue without bowing to Nielsen’s ratings.
  • We’ve gathered a list of basics.
  • The balance of new to familiar and their “Supreme Court” process for adding new songs.
  • Their hot clock mix explained.
  • The revenue component that even non-comms can emulate.

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The Meaning of the “White Noise” Podcast Boom
Music Radio’s Secret Weapon Against Streamers
How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales
The End of the Market Manager
Audacy to Renege on Pension Plans

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The Meaning of the “White Noise” Podcast Boom

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  • Why radio should care about Spotify’s inartful trashing of “white noise” that is increasingly popular.
  • The way radio can dissect an audience that is beginning to prefer chill as a source of entertainment.
  • The “white noise” that Spotify is trying to kill earns up to $18,000 a month– more than most remnant ads radio has been resorting to lately.
  • No, “white noise” isn’t the next affordable format for radio, but here’s what the trend suggests are a few that are.

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Radio’s Fate Hangs in the Balance: 4th Quarter Pivotal for Survival
Music Radio’s Secret Weapon Against Streamers
How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales
The End of the Market Manager
Audacy to Renege on Pension Plans

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Radio’s Fate Hangs in the Balance: 4th Quarter Pivotal for Survival

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  • One radio group is outperforming their peers this year by stealing revenue from these competitors – and that group is …
  • Audacy auditors were forced to issue a not “going concern” alert this year that plunged it into bankruptcy mode – the groups most likely to be in trouble now.
  • Fact: sellers selling radio AND digital produce less revenue than AEs who sell only radio – what changes are coming.
  • Radio’s digital future should pattern what Mark Thompson, named CNN CEO yesterday, did to turnaround The New York Times.

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Music Radio’s Secret Weapon Against Streamers
How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales
The End of the Market Manager
Audacy to Renege on Pension Plans
Record Labels Confirm the Decline of CHR

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Music Radio’s Secret Weapon Against Streamers

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  • There’s lots of news among younger demographics lately who prefer streaming music services like Spotify and Apple Music over terrestrial radio – both have weaknesses but now radio has a way to regain listeners glued to their AirPods.
  • It’s something that Spotify can’t do (they still think they need to be more like radio!).
  • Nielsen stands in the way, but there is a workaround.
  • Evidence that young music loving audiences would turn the radio back on for this new approach to music programming.
  • There’s even a way for big consolidators to get in on this but don’t make the mistake they are sure to make.

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How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales
The End of the Market Manager
Audacy to Renege on Pension Plans
Record Labels Confirm the Decline of CHR
Bottom Feeder Buying Cumulus, Audacy Debt

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How Consolidators Plan to Change Ad Sales

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  • Disruptive changes to how account execs will sell. 
  • Where the size of station sales forces is headed – smaller to save compensation or larger to boost revenue? 
  • Cleaning up collections. 
  • Questionable sales practices for iHeart, Audacy and Cumulus that could easily become accepted everywhere.
  • Solutions for redefining the role of sales manager and how to get maximum revenue from salespeople.

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The End of the Market Manager

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  • Scripps reportedly fired many of their local TV GMs making radio salivate at the potential savings.
  • The new “glorified” sales manager.
  • The radio groups most likely to fire market managers in favor of regional execs.
  • The ones most likely to consider regional market managers.
  • The safest radio groups to be a market manager (by group and size).

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Bottom Feeder Buying Cumulus, Audacy Debt

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  • Just when you think Audacy and Cumulus have nothing left to sell, they’ve come up with this.
  • Why investors are willing to throw millions at radio groups that have emerged from bankruptcy or are ready to go into it.
  • Detailed: The riskiest new investment in radio since John Malone tried to take over iHeart.
  • What speculators see in radio that shareholders do not.

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The Audacy Reorganization Talks

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  • The two likeliest outcomes.
  • What’s the holdup – one issue seems insurmountable.
  • How their podcasting business is getting in the way.
  • Who gets screwed most – Audacy, bondholders or lenders.
  • At stake: a voluntary reorganization or a balls on bankruptcy.

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Shockers Ahead from iHeart, Audacy

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  • Why Audacy is not cutting expenses faster given their financial problems.
  • How iHeart is taking market share from competitors even as their own revenue declines.
  • iHeart fuzzy math about a 4th quarter turnaround clarified.
  • Bob Pittman caught speaking candidly about his radio group’s future.
  • It’s what iHeart and Audacy are NOT saying that is concerning – two examples.

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What’s for Sale at Audacy

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  • Will Audacy stations be sold in Boston and Phoenix?
  • The other assets that could be sold off within a year.
  • The coming benefits dump.
  • The one competitor that is singlehandedly preventing Audacy’s revenue from rising forcing asset sales.

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Audacy To Renege on Pension Plans

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  • The employees that will be most affected by this decision – an estimated number, kind of money being lost.
  • Is this the approach other bankrupt radio groups will now use?
  • How a few lucky Audacy employees saw this coming and what they did to protect their nest egg.
  • The option to quit their jobs and take their chances outlined here.

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Airplay and Attention Span

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  • Forget the metric that goldfish have a longer attention span than humans – it just got worse.
  • What percentage of Spotify songs get skipped in the first 5 seconds.
  • A look at changes in the way records are being made.
  • 8 attention span solutions (The average listener retains only 25% of what they hear).
  • TikTok is the new YouTube – what we can learn from them.

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Bankruptcy Talks Accelerate After Audacy 2Q Earnings Disaster

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  • How angry bondholders may force Audacy into bankruptcy court wiping out everyone’s equity.
  • Behind-the-scenes negotiations -- details.
  • Do lenders want Field out as a condition?
  • The new pivot Field is selling to save his job (succeeding digital and podcasting).
  • Ominous sign the end is near: retirement plans.

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What to Expect from 2nd Quarter Revenue

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  • WHAT RECESSION? There’s no recession, so why is radio having one?
  • IGNORING TRENDS -- Like “connected audiences” – what they are and why they work.
  • SPOTIFY -- The mistake of trying to compete with Spotify which is the new hit radio – here’s a better idea to take them on.
  • DIGITAL -- Trouble ahead in digital that radio groups increasingly depend on.

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Record Labels Confirm the Decline of CHR

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  • CHR audiences have been eroding for years in ratings and ability to break new acts, but the straw that broke the camel’s back happened early this year.
  • BUT WAIT, there is still good news for 3 other radio genres.
  • Why these 3 formats are now more valued by labels than CHR.
  • The coming new very different role for hit radio as the labels see it so you can get ahead of it now.
  • CHR’s decline and what happened at All Access.

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The Big Consolidators Plan for the Future

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  • The big 3 can’t sell or make a profit, but there is one more option.
  • Cluster busters are coming.
  • Why they are giving up on boosting anemic stock prices.
  • Surprising news about Nielsen.
  • Podcasting never materialized as promised, digital is a costly low-margin business and the national radio business decline is killing iHeart and Audacy – do they have one more pivot left?

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Chaos at Cumulus

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  • First good look at their rate of cash burn.
  • The revenue they need to generate just to pay their bills.
  • They sold WDRQ, Detroit for $10 million for quick cash – what’s on the block now?
  • What they have in mind by promising to retrain the sales force.
  • Why they are gutting many of their stations.

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The Race to Rebrand Radio

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  • The guardrails for stations looking to successfully rebrand.
  • The important step most stations skip over.
  • Lessons from Starbucks, Gap and Twitter’s rebrand.
  • Now it can be told: the reason consolidators pushed to replace radio with audio.
  • The radio group that reportedly renamed a major market powerhouse based on the CEO’s wife’s preference.

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Listeners Paying Streaming Rate Hikes Rather Than Free Radio

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  • How long the current trend will last.
  • The streamers who may have the most resistance to rate increases.
  • The specific reasons why listeners would rather pay substantial and increasing monthly fees rather than listen to free radio.
  • METRICS: Exactly how much are consumers willing to pay for monthly subscriptions for streaming services?

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Religion Is Soaring, Salem Is Not

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  • Why virtually all religion-based stations are succeeding while Salem is in financial hot water.
  • The winners and losers in one of America’s top format genres.
  • Salem’s mistakes that EMF didn’t make.
  • The ingenious formula EMF uses to buy stations on the cheap.

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The Core Needs of Listeners Have Changed

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  • The two new surprising hot buttons according to a changing audience.
  • The importance of influencers or not.
  • If you’re not willing or able to cut commercial loads right now, these new core needs even supersede that.
  • How to get record labels to start spending promotional money again to gain radio airplay.
  • Turns out one of the weekend hit movies (Barbie and Oppenheimer) has some critical branding lessons.

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Satellite Has a Radio Problem

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  • Why yesterday’s 42% stock price surge is a warning sign.
  • The problems that have caused SiriusXM subscriptions to hit the wall.
  • The story behind their bizarre pricing plans.
  • The coming dashboard shakeout for terrestrial and satellite radio.

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The Golden Bachelor Warning

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  • The evidence behind ABC’s The Golden Bachelor blatantly aimed at aging demographics.
  • Proof positive that radio can regenerate a new generation of listeners even as young people are turning to digital.
  • The way to develop new formats even where older listeners predominate.
  • Hopeful history: How hippie WMMR was hatched on an older-skewing adult station – 50 years ago!
  • Age in place or get younger?

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Audacy’s Screwed Up Bankruptcy

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  • What a last-minute pre-packaged bankruptcy means to the operation of Audacy stations.
  • The radio groups that are watching their latest tactics closely.
  • One investor is in for the biggest shellacking.
  • Lenders would rather stay with current management than have to run Audacy themselves. True or false?

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The Rise of Unions in Media

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  • Will the SAG/AFTRA and screenwriters strike stimulate a union movement to save radio jobs?
  • How they would go about unionizing against iHeart, Audacy, Cumulus and others.
  • Bubbling under: What we know about current attempts to organize against radio consolidators.
  • The most probable unionization targets – in order.

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Spillover Effects of a Disney TV Sale

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  • Disney wisely sat out radio consolidation and is now looking to exit the linear TV business – what do they know.
  • The ramifications of a collapsing TV business on radio.
  • Does streaming still have good business potential.
  • The kind of content that still has an upside.
  • New distribution options for radio.

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Click to read: The Projected Outcome of the Audacy Bankruptcy TalksAudacy Hedges Its BetsThreads, Twitter & RadioBreaking Down Audacy’s 1-for3- Reverse Stock SplitAI’s Projected Impact on the Music Business …  Not That Format Hot Clock, This OneiHeart’s Misleading AI GoalsCash-Strapped Audacy Paying Millions to Retain ExecsRadio’s Streaming MistakesRadio rethinking Digital

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The Projected Outcome of Audacy Bankruptcy Talks

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  • We called this over a year ago in living color – along with the Cumulus and iHeart bankruptcies before that – now batting 1.000, here’s our projected outcome of the Audacy reorganization.
  • Are lenders holding almost $2 billion in debt in the mood to cut a deal?
  • Is it true that Audacy and David Field can somehow survive a pre-pack bankruptcy?
  • The signs that this is going to get ugly.
  • The projected outcome – who gets screwed, who gets lucky.

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Click to read:  Audacy Hedges Its BetsThreads, Twitter & RadioBreaking Down Audacy’s 1-for3- Reverse Stock SplitAI’s Projected Impact on the Music Business …  Not That Format Hot Clock, This OneiHeart’s Misleading AI GoalsCash-Strapped Audacy Paying Millions to Retain ExecsRadio’s Streaming MistakesRadio rethinking DigitalListeners Demands to Return to Radio 

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Audacy Hedges Its Bets

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  • The not so warm and fuzzy CEO is now romancing the staff to get the one thing he desperately needs from them.
  • How half-truths are being used to paint a picture of stability.
  • Details of an orchestrated “charm offensive” to win back employees.
  • David Field talks about the new people he hired – here’s what he is leaving out.
  • What’s next: this final Hail Mary.

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Threads, Twitter & Radio

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  • 70 million new signups in its first two days Threads competed with Twitter – why radio should take a timeout and not misread what’s developing.
  • Young people are already bored with Twitter and many more abandoned Facebook spelling opportunity for the original social medium, radio.
  • The key component – do this and digital alternatives can’t compete with radio.
  • Details on how music genres should proceed and how spoken word formats should take advantage of this once in a generation opportunity.
  • The evolving attitudes about social media that are changing now and begging for someone to act.

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Breaking Down Audacy’s 1-for-30 Reverse Stock Split

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  • Reverse stock splits almost never work, so why did Audacy just do a 1-for-30 split?
  • Why would one of the cheapest radio CEOs spend $3.2 million on pay raises and bonuses at a time like this.
  • The coming potential screwing of Audacy shareholders.
  • The favorite for running Audacy post-bankruptcy.
  • Who is on the growing list of radio groups that are angling for a voluntary bankruptcy.

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AI’s Projected Impact on the Music Business

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  • Happening already: AI imitating recording artists.
  • The cloned dj to play cloned music.
  • Fake records impact on airplay and streaming music services.
  • The clause in the U.S. copyright law that guarantees AI bots will not make humans expendable.

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Not That Format Hot Clock, This One

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  • How to update the “hot clock” to reflect how audiences actually live and listen to radio today.
  • For example, there is one programming element that can be added at no cost whatsoever – yet no stations do this ratings booster (until now?).
  • Radio, take note: Striking stats on how the record business is successfully adapting to shorter radio listener attention spans and it goes virtually unnoticed.
  • Too many commercials are a turnoff and they’re not going to be reduced anytime soon, but there is a way to mitigate the tune-out factor.
  • Should AI be included in future format clocks – jump on it first, wait or say no way.
  • The secret Spotify users have for what they want from a radio station.

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iHeart’s Misleading AI Goals

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  • How iHeart’s public and private goals for artificial intelligence differ.
  • Its effect on future iHeart layoffs detailed.
  • iHeart promising to expand AI even before it gets started – what’s behind that move.
  • The reasons competitors will not breathe easier when they see what iHeart AI is up to.
  • BUT, employees will have a different set of AI rules than iHeart corporate.

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

Cash-Strapped Audacy Paying Millions to Retain Execs

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  • “Retention Awards” from the cheapest radio group to keep employees who have no intention of leaving – why?
  • Yes, yes David Field gets an unconscionable pay bump for presiding over a company preparing for bankruptcy – but look who else is getting spiffed now.
  • Wall Street wants deep cuts from them so why is Audacy doing the exact opposite?
  • Talent, programming and sales – their stake in this corporate money grab.
  • Will the healthy radio companies start giving raises?

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

Radio’s Streaming Mistakes

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  • Even the big consolidators are fumbling on digital delivery of their stations – a checklist of their mistakes you don’t want to repeat.
  • The end of radio walled off from digital competitors – and new opportunities.
  • The dark hole of commercials while streaming.
  • All that is necessary to beat digital competitors where they stream while you continue to broadcast over-the-air.
  • Audacy case study: how not to transition to digital broadcasting.

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

Radio Rethinking Digital

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  • Digital seems to have hit the wall, even Townsquare is having problems cranking it out – why radio groups behind the scenes are worried about their favorite pivot.
  • New thinking – how digital sales will change for radio out of necessity over the next few months.
  • Townsquare derives over 50% of its revenue from digital – why no other radio group can.
  • Selling against iHeart’s packaged platform deals.

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

Listeners Demands to Return to Radio

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  • “The list” to address radio’s turn offs.
  • Time spent listening enhancers.
  • Where digital and podcasting fit in.
  • Consolidators are already flirting with artificial intelligence (AI) – are listeners interested?
  • How to harvest the “gift” of increasingly shorter attention spans.
  • News and talk are on the list, but you may be shocked at how listeners want it now.

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Competing Against Failed Radio Groups

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  • The low-lying fruit – two areas to hit your formerly bankrupt or soon-to-be bankrupt competitor with and get relatively quick results.
  • Smarter planning for the more aggressive radio owner or executive – failed groups will skip this part because it costs a little investment money.
  • Only for the brave – worth a read because these ideas take guts not so much money.
  • The number one (and only) question to ask a group when brainstorming for new radio ideas.
  • And the most preferred contest prize that radio never offers.

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The New Station Owners

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  • The three types of new owner that will be buying radio stations from desperate consolidators.
  • There’s one consolidator that knows this already and they have already begun to take advantage of the next type of station owner.
  • AM stations are being shut down or sold for pennies on the dollar – KABC is likely next – does that mean there is a brisk market for AM?
  • How are the distressed radio stations sold by consolidators to new owners performing?
  • The return of the mom-and-pop era?

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Cumulus All in On Exiting Radio

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  • The profit in not growing the company.
  • Plans for market managers.
  • Latest distraction: a new low margin business with auto renew in fine print.
  • They failed in network, podcasting and spot radio, here’s where they appear to be headed next.
  • And, that $50 million buyback of stock has come under fire for this reason.

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Turmoil Over Who Controls the Car Radio

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  • Ford knew something that even the radio industry didn’t know before making their first attempt to delete AM from in-car entertainment systems – here’s what it is.
  • The BBC got it right – what their new leader predicts for radio distribution within the next 10 years.
  • If they are right, the NAB is pandering to AM owners who would be better served by accepting the BBC vision.
  • Almost everyone agrees FM is next if it doesn’t at least keep an open mind for the European radio solution.
  • Auto manufacturers are hijacking the car radio to make money from apps – this counter punch stops them in their tracks and puts control in the hands of broadcasters.

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Audacy’s Copycat Bankruptcy

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  • The bankruptcy Audacy is modeling itself after.
  • They even hired the same advisory firm.
  • Based on this model – who can get screwed and who gets paid.
  • Cumulus and iHeart (and potentially Audacy) filed bankruptcy before it was needed – what’s that all about?
  • What are the chances a private equity backed company will file for bankruptcy compared to a traditional company – there are research numbers now available.

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

How Audacy Is Sportswashing Investors

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  • What exactly is sportswashing and how Audacy is strategically employing it.
  • This 1-for-30 share Audacy reverse stock split is not what it appears to be – there is a specific reason for this move and helping investors is not at the top of that list.
  • The revealing report card on reverse stock splits.
  • Field wants what Cumulus CEO Mary Berner was having when she filed for Cumulus – her version worked for her.
  • Shareholders usually get screwed in reverse stock splits so why is Audacy’s so important?

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Chaos at the Big 3 Radio Monopolies

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  • The 5 groups that will experience at least one bankruptcy over the next couple of years (We’re batting 1.000 so far).
  • One private equity group is about to sell off its radio assets.
  • A great radio station cannot save a radio cluster – but here’s what can.
  • No one wants to be in a consolidator’s shoes right now, but there is an emerging type of radio group to watch for.
  • The coming explosion over average quarter hour listening so you can get ahead of it now.

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Saga’s Pat Paxton Hire

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  • To hire Paxton, Saga changed a fundamental practice that has worked well for them for decades.
  • What Paxton had that others didn’t that was irresistible.
  • The move away from policies of the late Ed Christian with great urgency.
  • Tomorrow’s Saga – changes ahead, one startling.

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What Post-Bankruptcy Audacy Might Look Like

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  • Would David Field run it?
  • If not, who is on the short list to replace him?
  • Who would own the company that emerges?
  • What would the new owners be forced to sell to downsize?
  • Could Audacy finally get back to business?

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Local Advertisers Dumping Radio

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  • Low profit digital being sold by radio stations is artificially pumping up the revenue, so why is local sales and profit down?
  • Something’s not right -- Why is debt-ridden and bankrupt Audacy so close to much bigger competitor iHeart in revenue – here are the numbers.
  • What the late Ed Christian used to do in markets where he competed when iHeart did a deep dive on rates.
  • Local advertisers want to buy radio – here is what’s keeping them from upping their spend.
  • One proven tactic that radio advertisers cannot resist.

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Audacy Preps for Bankruptcy by Increasing Spending

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  • For a company that is headed to bankruptcy, why is Audacy increasing its spending?
  • Where are they spending the money.
  • A first good look at David Field preparing for bankruptcy not preventing it.
  • CBS-type spending vs. Audacy penny pinching – why the change?
  • The fate of their well-publicized forced retirements.

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Ford Won the AM Radio Battle

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  • What Ford knows that broadcasters are missing about AM radio.
  • Sit down for this -- Ford will actually end AM’s audio disadvantage compared to FM, their plan.
  • The NAB knows the AM car battle is lost but why are they still pissing in the wind?
  • The carmakers dirty little secret is that they want to make radio (among other things) a paid app – here’s what will prevent them.

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Audacy Bankruptcy Negotiations

  • The rather surprising position of lenders as Audacy publicly declares it may no longer make it as a going concern.
  • The 3 things that Audacy must come away with or it’s game over.
  • The way things are leaning at this moment – bankruptcy, loss of control or stay of execution.

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Cumulus is Panicking

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  • Cumulus revenue is off, their digital and podcasting gambits are inconsequential at this point.
  • They see an erosion of public confidence in their stock.
  • So what are they going to do about it?

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The Value Destruction of Audacy

Audacy has lost 99% of its value since the CBS merger in 2017 –  CEO David Field publicly criticized CBS at the time for inept management and said he was the only one who could fix it.

So how did he wipe out all the equity of a company that it turns out was never broken?

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Lenders Pressure Audacy for Deeper Cuts

  • Yesterday’s NYSE delisting and its effect on operations.
  • Lenders want more cuts and Audacy wants fewer – there’s a reason.
  • How that could change their layoff situation.
  • The thinking behind stating publicly that Audacy may no longer be a “going concern”.
  • What it all means to lenders, shareholders and remaining employees.

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Audacy On the Brink

  • Revenue projections for the rest of the year.
  • The chance of a lender-driven refinance.
  • What happened to all the promised layoffs and cost-cutting?
  • Which investors gets screwed the most.
  • Look who is ready to hijack the company.

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Radio Is Changing Layoff Rules

  • What’s different
  • The perfect layoff (yes, one radio group has this down pat)
  • The hits keep on coming but employees are still shocked -- smart ways to prepare
  • The one thing that irks a laid off employee even as much as money issues
  • When to sue, when to take what you can and run

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Bankruptcy Update on Audacy, Cumulus, iHeart & Beasley

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  • What’s new:  which of these consolidators have a chance to avoid bankruptcy, which don’t.
  • Why they now even fear making their debt payments on time as strange as that sounds.
  • Learn which ones are toast at Audacy, iHeart, Cumulus & Beasley should they go belly up.
  • The one problem they all have in common that will not go away.

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The “Bowtie” That Is Choking Radio

  • Taking back commercial placement strategy from PPM.
  • Bringing back the “clock wars”.
  • Nielsen isn’t going to alter quarter hour crediting rules that are on shaky ground with advertisers – here’s how to get around them.
  • Advertisers – not broadcasters – are the biggest part of Nielsen’s business and they don’t like change but this move will even make them happy.

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iHeart’s True Financials

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  • The financial health of iHeart broken down by radio CEOs who know all the tricks
  • How their strong revenue quarter comes with a caveat
  • Dig deeper into iHeart’s heavy debt
  • The reason some employees haven’t had a raise in over 10 years
  • Learn how much of their revenue comes from podcasting

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3 Cumulus Myths

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  • Things Cumulus dare not say publicly or risk a total collapse of their business.
  • The story behind Westwood One.
  • Last week Mary Berner touted a more than 20% increase in Q1 digital business – the important part she is leaving out.
  • What Cumulus is doing instead of paying down debt that creditors want.

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Top Listener Gripes

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  • Radio is unnecessarily pissing off its listeners.
  • Several listener complaints that can be remedied at little to no expense at all.
  • The somewhat surprising audience input on promos, sweepers and morning shows.
  • A way to get around programming to Nielsen PPM instead of the new needs of in-demo audiences.

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Audacy Up in Arms Over J.D. Crowley’s Superstar Status

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  • Big salaried execs are getting axed, Crowley survives – why.
  • What is Audacy doing throwing money at one person while laying off many others.
  • We have the number of employees who have been canned since the CBS merger.

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Audacy Reportedly Fudging Their Digital Numbers

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  • We’ve seen the numbers from a news source – the holes in David Field’s 12% digital growth revealed.
  • Bungling behind the scenes – would you have launched your big digital business after hearing this?
  • The impact of J.D. Crowley’s lucrative contract renewal.

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Consolidators Risking Ageism Lawsuits

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  • The sudden emphasis on long tenured and older employees as layoff targets.
  • The latest trick they’re using to potentially defend against ageism lawsuits.
  • The 60-year old’s not in harm’s way.
  • It goes both ways, a top revenue manager bolted for a surprising non-radio job.
  • The new forced-retirement.

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No AM in Cars as an Assault on Right Wing Radio

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  • What automakers have against AM radio.
  • The reason manufacturers want to shut down radio.
  • Learn about the next iteration of infotainment systems on FM, satellite and digital devices.
  • How next year’s digital dashboard is being reimagined.
  • Relevant tests underway by Tesla, Apple and BMW.

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Audacy to Claw Back Sports Radio

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  • The effect of a smaller, weaker sports presence on competitors.
  • Learn whether there will be  more walking away from expensive NFL rights agreements.
  • The strangest Audacy firings perhaps ever – sports head Mike Dee and podcast exec Tim Murphy.
  • The big salaries now being eliminated predict as an indicator of where Audacy will be diminished.
  • The revised and latest Audacy downsizing strategy.

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Huge Pay Disparities Discovered at iHeart

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  • If you thought you knew what the top iHeart execs are making, you may want to think again.
  • The ratio of CEO pay to that of median employees for 2022.
  • Expensive, high level hiring now going on during layoffs.
  • iHeart’s sorry, not sorry scenario for focusing on firing radio people.
  • 100% pay increases for this year compared to last.

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Ford Refuses to Reverse No AM in Cars

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  • What the NAB did that made automakers eliminate AM radio.
  • Complete list of carmakers removing AM radios and those keeping it for now.
  • What the industry is calling a victory for the AM band as it is being removed from cars.
  • The prospect of Defund the NAB.
  • Learn why removing AM stations affects FM in the dashboard.

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Urban One Threatened with Delisting

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  • What Urban One is thinking by taking Cox Houston off the hands of a more than anxious seller while deeply in debt.
  • Such a deal – wait until you crunch the numbers.
  • The reason Urban One can’t file its 2022 Form 10-K revenue statement required by the SEC on time while every other group has done so.
  • Their casino ambitions.
  • The way they will spinoff stations to comply with ownership limits.

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Severance Abuse During iHeart Layoffs

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  • The tactic of changing employee start dates.
  • How they keep holding severance checks back without a non-compete – even where they are not legal.
  • Sample a laundry list of jobs that have nothing to do with radio that fired iHeart employees are now forbidden to take.
  • A look at the hurtful non-competes that the NAB is backing even as Congress looks to dismantle them.
  • The way to outdo iHeart like a top employee just did to catch them off guard.

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Audacy Selling Stations to Prevent Bankruptcy

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  • Last year we warned that Audacy will start selling radio stations – they did that late last week as an Easter present to EMF.
  • The reason they had to resort to selling radio instead of podcasting and digital assets that are still on the block.
  • The other assets Audacy is now trying to sell for whatever it can get.
  • The reason EMF is where broke goes to die.
  • And the most important question of all – will Audacy be forced to sell any of their other stations soon?

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The Next Format Trend Is Emerging Now

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  • A warning of a format trend that stations will have to deal with to prevent further audience attrition.
  • Three radio formats that look like they are benefiting from this trend already are NOT.
  • Dig deeper into how this trend is different from past changes in listener behavior.
  • Learn how TikTok, social media and covid are impacting audience preferences.
  • The steps forward to safely proceed because this trend also comes with a dangerous no-no.

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Audacy’s Tankathon

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  • The benefit of tanking
  • Rethinking the Reverse Stock plan
  • If you bought Audacy stock ahead of the split, then …
  • There’s an updated new debt figure
  • Learn what they’ve decided to do about their personnel problem

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Layoffs & Lawsuits as iHeart’s Troubles Mount

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  • Fair warning:  iHeart stock may be getting ready to do an Audacy dive.
  • Focus on why the financial world is suddenly worried about the industry’s number one consolidator.
  • Their promise not to lay off more employees made a few weeks ago after taking away benefits.
  • The lawsuit that is being threatened as lawyers are looking for a few good employees to file a Class Action suit – details and contacts.

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Should I Air the Trump Trials?

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Audacy Reverse Stock Split Set for May 25

Audacy has publicly denied or avoided almost every issue regarding their financial survival -- Here’s the surprisingly candid admissions they are telling the government about their Reverse Stock Split under penalty of violating security laws.

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How to Successfully Sue a Radio Group

Do this, not that.

Details of how 7 former employees forced a $1 million Cumulus out of court settlement.

What works and what is a waste of money.

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The Paying Nielsen Client Who Is Fighting Back

One unhappy Nielsen client just found a legal way to get their attention

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