Now we know what’s coming next at Clear Channel.

CEO Bob Pittman becomes Chairman of the Board in a few months and has all the power he needs to disrupt the company.

Here are the next 7 steps but they are not what you think they are – even more drastic and shocking.

A shakeup – a break up – and a makeup. 

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1. For the first time, see which largest and quickest cost-cutting layoffs will be targeted to set the table.
2. What Pittman is likely to sell – and when – to reduce the $20 billion debt that saddles Clear Channel.
3. Carnac sees a buyer for some very valuable Clear Channel assets – which ones and where.
4. What about iHeartRadio and Premium Choice?
5. Which exit plan does Pittman have in mind because it’s sure not going be business as usual anymore.

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Look out! 

It’s coming.

Clear Channel has been methodically setting the stage for some (more than one) massive layoffs this year.

That’s why they forced employees to take the online survey about work conditions a few months back.

And that’s why they just a few days ago, put the second piece in place to allow them a wider range of firing possibilities for the next round.

I’ve gone over the document thanks to a number of newstipsers (and newly installed members in my witness protection program).

Here’s some of the stuff to look out for.

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1. Awful new spying rules that gives the Eye in the Sky the ability to track employees’ every move – and fire them at will.
2. Why a previously little known new rule that gives employees who want to report wrongdoing is a Trojan Horse that may see the end their career if they try it.
3. What happens from now on if a Clear Channel employee takes a second job?
4. Why their new rules on ethical selling only apply to employees and not corporate dealmakers who can get special waivers to get around them.
5. Plus, which new corporate “gotchas” should Clear Channel employees be aware of.
6. What about the timing of these new trumped up rules – why now?

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Mr. Mean Genes has become The Town Clown of radio.

Cumulus CEO Desperate Lew Dickey is losing employees at a record rate and thinks suing them helps him recruit better replacements.

But believe it or not, Dickey’s days are numbered.  

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1. Why a desperate March Madness revenue-raising scheme backfired.
2. How long-suffering employees are beginning to standup to Mr. Mean Genes.
3. He can’t even keep super top executives – here’s a big departure Dickey failed to mention while he was bragging about his accomplishments – but we will.
4. Mr. Mean Genes has replaced 40 of 55 Citadel managers so what’s in store for the 15 remaining survivors.
5. What’s “compensation day expiration” and why is this self-inflicted policy making it hard to hire people for needed jobs.
6. And the Big Question!  How long before Dickey gets his comeuppance.

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Here’s the feel good radio story you thought you’d never hear about.

Clear Channel gets knocked off in a big radio market by a teensie-weensie 225-watt translator.

Emerging as number one persons 18-34 beating no less than a full power heritage station personally programmed by a big John Hogan-appointed programming honcho, which has now simultaneously dropped to #3 persons 18-34 and 25-54.

Imagine THAT on his resume.

Now you had better watch your flank.

Here’s how it happened and how other shrewd operators can pick the pockets of the big boys while they are busy cranking out their sanctimonious bullshit.

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1. Which radio company kicked Clear Channel in the nuts and won in a major city with a lowly 225-watt translator.
2. Guess how long it took to become #1 – you can’t, you won’t, but they did it.
3. So this little pimple on Clear Channel’s butt isn’t making money, right?
4. Why you should protect your brand now – if a competitor gets ahold of this game plan and has a translator available, your dominance can be eviscerated like that!
5. The only way to defend against another rogue translator that comes after you.

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NO!  NO!  NO!

Say it ain’t so.

Cox Radio is starting to operate from the Cumulus and Clear Channel playbooks.

Not mean. 

Just lean – increasingly lean.

Some people are really worried and here is why.

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1. Once and for all, can we rule out the sale of more Cox Radio markets?
2. Who knew that Cox thought it had a ready and willing buyer for the recent non-essential markets it sold – and maybe even a buyer to sell the entire company.  Guess who it was and why they are not interested.
3. Why most present and ex-employees think Cox is a human radio operator, but not all.  Their gripe has some substance.
4. Cox doesn’t do mass firings, but they are using another tactic to cut costs.  You be the judge.
5. How long before Cox makes a major move to get out of radio – my best estimate.

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Top managers are walking out on Lew Dickey.

It’s so bad, that less than 2 weeks ago one market manager quit after just four months on the job and this is becoming more prevalent.

And he was the latest of 6 managers to run the cluster since 2006 – even more failed since Cumulus bought the station before that.

Long-suffering Cumulus employees vowed that they were waiting for one thing to happen before they walked.  I’ll tell you what that one thing was.

So what do these suddenly empowered ex-employees of Cumulus plan to do for their “next” job?  This one radio company loves to hire Cumulus employees.

Cumulus often reacts liked a jilted girl or boyfriend to the news that their employees are leaving before they can be fired.   When they get this pissed, they turn to tactics like the ones I’m going to share with you. 

Then there’s their latest ploy to advertise for top jobs that have been vacated, but you won’t believe what Cumulus does to these positions while they are searching for a replacement. 

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Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman has no trouble throwing a lavish party for the debut of an electronic dance music format that isn’t even on a real radio station (EDM is only on a TRANSLATOR in Miami!)

Both Clear Channel and Cumulus top execs take bonuses even in bad times – like now – and simultaneously with massive layoffs that they impose on key staffers.

Top talent is being dismissed and the people who have been getting fired – 10,000 alone at Clear Channel over the past years – turn out to be the LUCKY ones.

Survivors beware.

The Evil Empire and the Cumulus Game of Clones have a plan to bend you over and screw you out of even more salary.

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1. How contract employees are being fooled into either quitting or taking a big pay cut. 
2. The new hardball – what to expect when you’re expecting to go to work for a better station across the street.
3. Whopping pay cuts – you won’t read about how they’re doing it in the happy talk radio trades but you get the figure here.
4. What’s going to happen next to market managers, programmers, sales managers and commission rates.
5. How Clear Channel plans to screw market managers out of their bonuses.

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Michaels turns on an old friend – WWIQ PD and morning personality Al Gardner.  But the parting was ugly.  I’ve got the details from inside.

Randy is under great pressure – the rest of Merlin is being sold off right from under him by the investment people he got into bed with.  Here’s how the sale of the remaining Merlin stations is going.  Merlin thought it had the station sold to CBS Radio.  I’ll update the likely Philly buyer for you and the price.

Meanwhile WWIQ-FM’s plug and play conservative talk station with Limbaugh, Hannity and other syndicated hosts is creaming CBS’ WPHT-FM driving one of their stars, Michael Smerconish to satellite.

How can this happen?  No promotion, no commitment, no permanent owners, no help from PPM.  Here’s how to learn from Michaels mistakes and blow the ratings wide open.

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Not $1 million per year in SALARY compensation.

$1 million a year in NEW BUSINESS that each PD must now generate to keep his or her job at Clear Channel.

As incredible as it may seem, Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman came up with this new demand at his just-concluded top executive retreat in Florida.

Let me more blunt.

Each Clear Channel program director the company designates has just nine more months to generate $1 million in revenue even if they’re already 3 months into the year with this crazy idea.

Who knew the program director’s job was to directly increase billing – accountable down to the dollar.

These morons who have gutted radio stations of live, local programming have a helluva nerve to come back at top programming people and demand – not ask – that they help solve the company’s substantial financial problems.

I thought you’d like early warning on this because – and I hate to say it – the other lemmings who call themselves radio groups like to copy their failed leader.

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1. Why such desperation now?  Even $1 million per year per market won’t make a tiny dent in their $20 billion debt load.
2. Which markets.
3. The crazy things Clear Channel is going to demand of its program directors.
4. What if their designed PDs don’t hit $1 million by December 31^st.
5. What the real motivation is for fattening the revenue for the next 9 months.

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Yesterday I shared with you information from a source close to Bob Pittman, his former partner in Double O Radio Bob Sherman and others in which Pittman revealed his eventual plan for Clear Channel.

It’s not owning 850+ stations, that’s for damn sure.

It’s about this crafty new business that these sources say Pittman is looking to roll out.

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1. The timeline – how long things continue the way they are and when this new disruptive plan kicks in.
2. If you’re asking why would anyone in their right mind buy a Clear Channel station that is not making money and actually costs money to run – well, as you’re about to learn Pittman has a brand new business for that.
3. The startling changes Pittman plans to make to Premium Choice. 
4. You know how Pittman is spending this year personally tending to a handful of major market stations that are key to his new business.  Now we know why. 
5. Pittman’s new Clear Channel has very low debt (compared to the current $20 billion) and generates tremendous free cash flow.  And you thought he lost his mojo.
6. Finally – the answer to why Clear Channel is doing record label deals, doing hourly airplay for artists, concerts that don’t make money, it just doesn’t make sense.  Until now.

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I know what Bob Pittman’s plans are for Clear Channel.

What if I told you that this information comes from sources close to Pittman and his former partner Bob Sherman who insisted he knew Pittman’s plan shortly before Sherman died one year ago?  

It explains his odd behavior.

His obsession for iHeartRadio.

And why he’s personally getting involved with operations.

Tells us about his plan to carve up the Clear Channel assets.

And then drops this bomb on the company and the radio industry.

None of this has been written about before – I was even surprised by Pittman’s determination to wreck the company and pilfer the parts.

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1. Once and for all – why is Pittman so obsessed with that silly and corny app iHeartRadio and now you’ll see why it is critical to what he plans to do.
2. What Sherman said Pittman’s plans are for the next 12 months or less and then the bombshell.
3.  90% of Clear Channel stations are likely to be disrupted big time after that with Pittman’s ingenious and up to now secret strategy.
4. And the other 10% will be safe, right?
5. But there’s more – this doesn’t end once 90% of Clear Channel stations have been pilfered and, as you’re about to learn, it’s just the beginning of a new way to make money.
6. The new Clear Channel revealed.

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I know.

Used car sales and the way the Dickeys run Cumulus go hand in hand. 

I get it.

But what I am about to tell you is absolutely true -- that Cumulus is making car salesmen out of some of its jocks.

And I’m not talking about selling cars by doing commercials.

Here’s the latest indignity sure to arrive in other Cumulus markets.  Hell, a bad idea like this is perfect for Clear Channel, too. 

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1. Where it happened and where it is likely to happen next.
2. All the details of the most bizarre remote you have ever heard of and may actually have to do some day soon.
3. The startling talent compensation package.
4. The new normal for bully tactics at a consolidated radio group.

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