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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  • Historical metrics on trials and radio ratings
  • The least risky daypart to air coverage
  • Is gavel to gavel right for you – consult the experts
  • Likely court rules pertaining to audio coverage in 3 upcoming Trump trials
  • The most important step if you go there

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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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Jeff Smulyan Torches Bob Pittman

  • Pittman dressed down in public for the first time by a sitting media CEO
  • What happens when you cross him
  • David Field’s strange relationship with Pittman
  • Who Smulyan calls “Thelma and Louise” at iHeart

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Blowback Over Audacy’s $825,000 Employee Contract

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  • Details of the lucrative pay package from the same guy who has been firing radio people.
  • A bonus for leaving?
  • What’s gotten into David Field to make him spend like this.
  • How does this bode for other employees ahead?

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Programming to Short Attention Spans

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How ChatGPT Can Help a Radio Station

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  • Six specific things artificial intelligence can now do for radio stations at no cost.
  • How AI can help discover new music – the number one interest of in-demo listeners.
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Radio Groups Pressured to Cut Staff

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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
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Video Podcasts More Popular Than Audio

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  • Using music to get short attention spans to focus on podcasts

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How Radio Will Beat FTC’s Non-Compete Ban

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  • “Firing” horror stories that radio groups cover up – revealed
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Audacy Bankruptcy Becoming More Likely

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  • They wouldn’t do a brutal employee layoff after just giving their digital chief over a million in salary and incentives, would they?
  • How the sale of Cadence13 and Radio.com URL is going
  • What to expect when Audacy is delisted from the NYSE

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Townsquare May Shut More AM Stations

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  • 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.
  • Where does the concept of offering radio as a paid app leave AM stations?
  • Where does that leave sports betting as the savior of AM?

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Audacy On a Spending Spree

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  • Pay and benefits that are unlike Audacy’s stingy reputation.
  • Dig deeper into an actual new contract (since the new year).
  • Learn who is fortunate enough to get this type of compensation.
  • First acknowledgement that there could be a change of control ahead.
  • Where this leaves the expected RIFs due first quarter.

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iHeart Suckers 43 Air Personalities

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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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Saga’s First Big Bungle

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  • The one big change that will disrupt the company
  • Why its founder will soon be turning over in his grave
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The Pivot Away from Podcasting

  • A “new” replacement for podcasting as a radio revenue source
  • Changes managers are noticing from corporate about selling podcast ads
  • Deadly honest quote:  “Declining attention spans that now average around 5 seconds make a 20-minute, half-hour or full-hour podcast an impossible task for distracted audiences.”

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2023 Predictions

  • 7 radio predictions, 2 on podcasting, 4 for music industry, 2 for cable news and 3 devoted to streaming video.
  • Predictions about David Field, iHeart, Urban One, Beasley, Cumulus, Townsquare among others.
  • What’s ahead for further consolidation.
  • Area of major concern for the booming music business.
  • Radio’s best company in 2023.

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AQH Erodes as Listener Demands Are Ignored

  • Listening has been eroding for years during consolidation due to content decisions made by lenders and hedge funds more interested in cutting costs than attracting new listeners – turns out listeners want something very different.
  • Here’s what they have to say about firing Scott Shannon.
  • If you have to run commercials, here’s what goes over best.
  • How do you play more variety when Nielsen rewards you for playing the more familiar hits?

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Taylor Swift Fans Go After Ticketmaster

  • Taylor Swift’s fans are going after Ticketmaster for their part in high fees, cancellations and other outrages in the sale of tickets for her upcoming tour Eras.
  • How consumers are joining to fix the inequities caused by lack of government oversight.
  • The Randy Michaels/Lowry Mays prequel to today’s consumer revolt.
  • Why radio may see revolts like this from disgusted audiences.

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Financial Troubles at SiriusXM

  • Financial troubles based on declining auto sales, a main component of the satellite network’s growth is spurring layoffs that will become evident over the next few weeks.
  • What went wrong with the satellite monopoly that was supposed to be the next great thing in radio – remember? AM, FM and that’s how the name XM was born.
  • But wait: In these ways, satellite is dragging down terrestrial radio, too.
  • And the behind-the-scenes greedy tricks coming from auto manufacturers that threaten satellite and even terrestrial radio.

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5 Warning Signs at Audacy

  • 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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Feds Nail iHeart for Fake Ads

  • 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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Townsquare’s Next Head Fake

  • 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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Amazon’s Commercial Free Podcast Blitz

  • Amazon is quietly getting ready to disrupt the podcasting industry and more specifically blow away radio’s perceived built-in advantage by going commercial-free.
  • A tactic that could further damage iHeart, Audacy and other radio companies.
  • And there’s this: new way to make podcast discovery easier.
  • Radio’s podcast infrastructure may have to be reinvented.

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Previously: Only 2 Radio Groups are ProfitableiHeart Deal BuzzCould Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing? Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station SwapRadio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s SuccessA Recession Would Trip Radio LayoffsShakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for Audacy

You may also like: iHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealRadio Groups Drowning in DebtiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting Ads

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

Only 2 Radio Groups Are Profitable

  • These are the shocking metrics they dare not utter publicly but analysts are whispering privately.
  • The thing the two most profitable radio groups in Q3 have in common.
  • One group is off a whopping -63% -- here’s what they did wrong.
  • A group by group ranking of radio groups that say they make money but don’t.

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Previously: iHeart Deal BuzzCould Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing? Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station SwapRadio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s SuccessA Recession Would Trip Radio LayoffsShakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy

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

Could Audacy’s Board Do a Disney CEO Firing?

  • 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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Previously: A Beasley Bankruptcy to WatchAudacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station SwapRadio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s SuccessA Recession Would Trip Radio LayoffsShakeup in Station Management …Townsquare Distances Itself from RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal

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A Beasley Bankruptcy to Watch

  • 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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Previously: Audacy & Beasley Destroy their Vegas Station SwapRadio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s SuccessA Recession Would Trip Radio LayoffsShakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart Targeting Audacy

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Audacy & Beasley Destroy Their Vegas Station Swap

  • 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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Previously: Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s SuccessA Recession Would Trip Radio LayoffsShakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows 

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Radio’s Role in Taylor Swift’s Success

  • She crashed streaming service Spotify when her latest album Midnights was released, she’s social media royalty and she sells millions of albums when most other artists can barely sell a fraction – and her career was enabled by radio.
  • How Taylor Swift sells albums.
  • The new role for radio’s third golden age in a streaming world.

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Previously: A Recession Would Trip Radio LayoffsShakeup in Station Management … Townsquare Distances Itself from RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter Fail 

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A Recession Would Trip Radio Layoffs

  • 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 RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced Retirement

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Shakeup in Station Management

  • 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 RadioAudacy Burning Cash and Adding DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free Radio

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Townsquare Distances Itself from Radio

  • 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 DebtSaga’s Hidden ProblemsWhat Now for AudacyiHeart Stalling Another BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are Changing

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Audacy Burning Cash and Adding Debt

  • 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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Saga’s Hidden Problems

  • 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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What Now for Audacy

  • 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 BankruptcyPreview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue RevealiHeart targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own Layoffs

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iHeart Stalling Another Bankruptcy

  • 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 RevealiHeart targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span Problem

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Preview of Tomorrow’s Audacy Revenue Reveal

  • 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 DebtiHeart Targeting Audacy“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span Problem

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

Radio Groups Drowning in Debt

  • It’s been just a week since the first of the 3rd 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 ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span ProblemDigital Dimes Killing Terrestrial Revenue 

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iHeart Targeting Audacy

  • 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 ShowsCumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span ProblemDigital Dimes Killing Terrestrial RevenueBeasley Headed Towards Bankruptcy

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

“Commercial-Free” Hours Killing Morning Shows

  • 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 3rd Quarter FailScott Shannon’s Forced RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span ProblemDigital Dimes Killing Terrestrial RevenueBeasley Headed Towards BankruptcyThe Other Audacy/Beasley Deal

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Cumulus Masquerading 3rd Quarter Fail

  • 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 RetirementThe Future of Free RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span ProblemDigital Dimes Killing Terrestrial RevenueBeasley Headed Towards BankruptcyThe Other Audacy/Beasley DealOlivier Rising at Audacy

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

Scott Shannon’s Forced Retirement

  • 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 RadioAttitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span ProblemDigital Dimes Killing Terrestrial RevenueBeasley Headed Towards BankruptcyThe Other Audacy/Beasley DealOlivier Rising at Audacy 

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The Future of Free Radio

  • A way for free, commercial radio to charge for subscriptions
  • Why free radio is getting creamed by paid streaming
  • The proponent for making social media “paid” as an idea for free radio
  • The “you only pay for what you need” concept
  • Here’s what audiences will pay for on free radio 

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Previously: Attitudes About Radio Are ChangingRadio Pressured to Sell Podcasting AdsAudacy Ignoring Their Debt ProblemBeasley Botches Their Own LayoffsRadio’s Attention Span ProblemDigital Dimes Killing Terrestrial RevenueBeasley Headed Towards BankruptcyThe Other Audacy/Beasley DealOlivier Rising at AudacyAudacy Fire Sale Begins 

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

Attitudes About Radio Are Changing

  • A new time for the morning show
  • The desire for more than just music but still including music
  • What streamers are sensing audiences want next
  • How they’re already adapting content to their shorter attention spans
  • Young demo wish list for radio 

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