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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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• 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 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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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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• Where they will likely use it first
• What follows next
• They’re threatening AI to replace humans – why risk riling up their employees
• Examples of AI already creeping into music and radio

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A Pivotal Year for iHeart
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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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• The most likely radio group to start cutting personnel first
• How many gross firings can be expected
• Layoffs net minor savings so what triggers radio groups to do them
• One radio group may even see their CEO kicked out

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• The workaround already in the works
• “Firing” horror stories that radio groups cover up – revealed
• New ways to retaliate against sellers, managers and talent
• How soon could radio see non-competes disappear

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• What’s the critical importance of April to Audacy
• They wouldn’t do a brutal employee layoff after just giving their digital chief over a million in salary and incentives, would they?
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• Townsquare’s thinking behind shutting more AM stations.
• The big radio group that is most likely to follow next.
• Apple’s plan for CarPlay that makes reassessing viability of AM suddenly more pressing.
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• Where does that leave sports betting as the savior of AM?

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• A $10 million plus scam of major proportions that has shaken the company.
• How they put some of their most compelling air personalities in harm’s way without fully disclosing the risk.
• Even involving their children.
• The story so embarrassing that their “most trusted name in radio news” publication refused to cover it.
• How low iHeart went to bolster billing.

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You may also like: Cumulus Scrambles to Sell More Assets … Cash Infusion Deals Exposed … Not So Fast on No Saga Sale … AQH Erodes As Listener Demands are Ignored … Taylor Swift Fans Go After Ticketmaster …Financial Troubles at SiriusXM … 5 Warning Signs at Audacy … Feds Nail iHeart for Fake Ads … Townsquare’s Next Head Fake 

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The disruption coming to local radio

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You may also like: Not So Fast on No Saga Sale … AQH Erodes As Listener Demands are Ignored … Taylor Swift Fans Go After Ticketmaster … Financial Troubles at SiriusXM … 5 Warning Signs at Audacy … Feds Nail iHeart for Fake Ads … Townsquare’s Next Head Fake … Amazon’s Commercial Free Podcast Blitz … Only 2 Radio Groups are Profitable

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• Oh no, retroactive commission cuts
• How it will eventually spread to other stations and groups
• We do the math

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You may also like: 5 Warning Signs at Audacy … Feds Nail iHeart for Fake Ads … Townsquare’s Next Head Fake… Amazon’s Commercial Free Podcast Blitz … Only 2 Radio Groups are Profitable … iHeart Deal Buzz … Could Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing? … Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station Swap … Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success … A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs

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• Emerging problems bigger than the recession
• The worst months for layoffs (ranked in order by Bureau of Labor)
• Specific ways radio will morph next year

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You may also like: Feds Nail iHeart for Fake Ads … Townsquare’s Next Head Fake … Amazon’s Commercial Free Podcast Blitz … Only 2 Radio Groups are Profitable … iHeart Deal Buzz … Could Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing? … Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station Swap … Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success … A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs … Shakeup in Station Management …

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• Why? After years of searching, Mary Berner has found a replacement for conservative talk radio.
• But wait, how it will also kill conservative talk radio.

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You may also like: Townsquare’s Next Head Fake … Only 2 Radio Groups are Profitable … iHeart Deal Buzz … Could Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing? … Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station Swap … Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success … A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs … Shakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio… Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt

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You may also like: Could Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing? … Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station Swap … Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success … A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs … Shakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio… Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy

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• Cumulus is far and away the number one perpetrator of selling radio ads to third parties to gain immediate cash while driving down ad rates – now other groups are catching on.

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You may also like: Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station Swap … Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success …A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs … Shakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio… Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal

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You may also like: Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success … A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs … Shakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio… Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … Radio Groups Drowning in Debt

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• On its way to a likely bankruptcy possibly next year, Audacy is exhibiting 5 dangerous signs that could make the company even more volatile.
• They’re on the clock toward bankruptcy – what they will do to forestall it.
• Wait, wait – have you checked their operating cash?
• Surprise: who owns the most of this declining company’s shares.

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You may also like: Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy… iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … Radio Groups Drowning in Debt … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows … Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement

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• Six states and the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with iHeart and Google for their part into a deceptive ad campaign that featured false endorsements of the Google Pixel 4 smartphone.
• What iHeart did that was so bad that they are on a 10-year FTC probation.
• iHeart’s efforts to cover up the story and the huge fine.
• How they put radio personalities in a position to lie or get fired.

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You may also like: Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … Radio Groups Drowning in Debt … iHeart Targeting Audacy… “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows … Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio

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• Townsquare expects no growth in broadcast -- actually a decline (ex-political) in the out years which is driving their move to consider radio a mature cash cow income source – growth will come from digital.
• Are you SURE they are not a radio company?
• A clinic for Audacy and iHeart on managing debt.
• Next year will be very different.

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You may also like: What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … Radio Groups Drowning in Debt … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows … Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement… The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing

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You may also like: Radio Groups Drowning in Debt … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows … Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem …Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs

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• The boards of Audacy and Cumulus would be wise to note the recent proactive move of the Disney Board firing CEO Bob Chapek and rehiring retired icon Bob Iger.
• How this could affect their likely bankruptcy.
• Audacy’s version of a ‘Bob Iger replacement’ for David Field.
• But wait, the issue of Audacy’s board of directors.

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• The Beasley shortcoming that Wall Street worries about most.
• Drastic cutbacks of high performing talent.
• Concerns about burning through cash.
• A far flung but possible solution with another company.

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• Their “shotgun marriage” just got worse.
• Details on advertisers getting screwed before the transfer.
• What’s the big rush?
• iHeart’s role in all of this, yes iHeart!

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• Look only to the pandemic which was used as an excuse by radio consolidators to reduce their work forces for guidance on what will happen if a recession actually occurs.
• The reason the big 3 consolidators would actually welcome a recession.
• Revised bankruptcy dates for struggling consolidators (and why).
• The type of radio station that will breeze through any economic downturn.

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Previously: Shakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio… Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement

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• Over indebtedness and failure to monetize scaled down on-air content are responsible for a virtual collapse of radio monopolies as growth businesses.
• The on-air content they are moving toward.
• A new twist on out of market management.
• And yes, they’re going there – sales shakeup in advance of the recession.

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Previously: Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio… Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio

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• What happens to digital-first Townsquare if big tech implodes.
• The future of their “mature cash cow” radio operation.
• What we’re hearing about another Townsquare acquisition.
• Beasley and Audacy are ferociously cutting jobs, what about Townsquare?

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Previously: Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt … Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart Targeting Audacy… “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing

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• The Third Quarter stats Audacy is hiding
• Their current liquidity situation
• The messy, painful months ahead
• Can this company be saved?

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Previously: Saga’s Hidden Problems … What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads

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

• Ed Christian’s succession plan
• Is a management shakeup imminent?
• The prospects for selling the company
• Saga warning: What happened to the Maytag repairman

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Previously: What Now for Audacy … iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem

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• Station sales, delisting, refinancing and bankruptcy
• Straight talk about RIFs
• Major assets that will likely have to be sold
• Maybe another name change?

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Previously: iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy … Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail… Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs

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• The best bet on when the next restructuring will come.
• Which competitors iHeart is hurting most just to break even.
• Their way of raising executive compensation while eliminating other jobs --- confirmed.
• 3 questionable trouble areas to watch.

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Previously: Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal … iHeart targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem

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• By the end of the day tomorrow, the country may not know who won the mid-term elections, but they will know Audacy is out of options to survive as a going concern.
• What’s going on the block to pay debt.
• An expected signal for lenders from their CFO Richard Schmaeling – decoded.
• On the DEFCON scale, Audacy’s condition for readiness to survive.

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Previously: Radio Groups Drowning in Debt … iHeart Targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem

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• It’s been just a week since the first of the 3^rd quarter radio financial results have been released and early indications are that the major consolidators are so losing the debt battle that their operations promise to change as soon as next year.
• The real debt numbers, not sugar-coated
• What to keep an eye on
• Pencil these desperation moves in for early 2023

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Previously: iHeart targeting Audacy … “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem … Digital Dimes Killing Terrestrial Revenue 

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

• iHeart is now moving to weaken its largest competitor Audacy by going after the sports rights franchises they now dominate, continuing to pressure ad prices where they compete and possibly steal their talent. 

• Their predatory tactics to take down Audacy 

• How their main growth is now coming from hurting competitors 

• The dirtiest trick of all that could humiliate Audacy

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Previously: “Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows… Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem … Digital Dimes Killing Terrestrial Revenue … Beasley Headed Towards Bankruptcy

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

• After workarounds designed to bury huge commercial loads, stations are finding that sacrificing some of the morning show for a commercial blitz to make other hours commercial free is provoking some unintended consequences.
• Audacy got themselves into trouble with this – here’s the research.
• iHeart’s even more radical approach.
• But here’s what the audience wants. 

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Previously: Cumulus Masquerading 3^rd Quarter Fail … Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem … Digital Dimes Killing Terrestrial Revenue … Beasley Headed Towards Bankruptcy … The Other Audacy/Beasley Deal

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

• Cumulus reported third quarter revenue down 2% - that’s the good news
• You won’t believe their fastest growing revenue stream
• And how they are hiding debt in broad daylight
• The net effect of staff reductions on actual financials
• Net leverage of other groups is averaging 5.5x – here’s Cumulus’

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Previously: Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement … The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem … Digital Dimes Killing Terrestrial Revenue … Beasley Headed Towards Bankruptcy … The Other Audacy/Beasley Deal … Olivier Rising at Audacy …

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• Audacy walked away from WCBS-FM, New York morning personality 8½ years after CBS Radio President Dan Mason hired him but the real story is not what Audacy is publicly saying.
• The surprise executioner.
• A likely replacement who will work for a lot less.
• Is David Field the next retiree?

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Previously: The Future of Free Radio … Attitudes About Radio Are Changing … Radio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads … Audacy Ignoring Their Debt Problem … Beasley Botches Their Own Layoffs … Radio’s Attention Span Problem … Digital Dimes Killing Terrestrial Revenue … Beasley Headed Towards Bankruptcy … The Other Audacy/Beasley Deal … Olivier Rising at Audacy …  

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