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• Big salaried talent, read this before buying a house (this major Cumulus morning man just reportedly put his on the market).
• How Clue-u-less CEO Mary Berner is going to deal with morning and expensive air talent.
• The two choices for talent or else walk the unemployment line.
• The two choices for Cumulus without big air talent salaries to burden them.
• What’s becoming more important than ratings or even cutting expenses to the desperate new Cumulus.

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• Cumulus denies it but now iHeart actually talks about it – this is some scary s@#t.
• iHeart’s latest move to try and sucker investors into buying investments in a subsidiary group – with no protection to them. Details.
• Actual wording of how investors will get screwed hoping you won’t read this.
• Which prestigious Wall Street firm has called iHeart the junk bonds of junk bonds.
• The new debt for equity stock got this many takers on day one.
• It’s not whether but when – Wall Street money people revised their timetable for a Chapter 11 filing.

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• The full extent of the CBS Radio layoffs now in progress.
• How long will phase 2 of the layoffs last.
• Will it be the last big CBS layoff.
• Why so close to Christmas – what’s the rush.
• The types of jobs Santa Scrooge Scott Herman is targeting now – see the trend for future layoffs.
• Why all-news WNEW-FM, Washington won’t be the only CBS station to have the plug pulled.
• What’s up with not replacing all-news with an inexpensive music station – why lease it out to Bloomberg?

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• Why Mary Berner is just Lew Dickey in a pantsuit.
• The end of Westwood One is now in the cards – how it will happen.
• Why is Berner doubling down on the worst radio format in the history of civilization, Nash, if she cares about turning around Cumulus?
• What’s up with creating an office of programming for Mike McVay and former John Hogan impersonator Tom Schurr?
• Engage, the hated two-hour a day waste of time for sellers, is now dead – or is it?       Details.

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Yes, we do still have some pretty damn good radio groups left even working in an industry that is tainted by the consolidators.

You have a good sense of where my head is at on this.

Now I’d like yours for an article that will run very soon for Inside Music Media members.

The good, the bad and the ugly.

We try to keep it authentic by calling out the greedy bastards who are ruining our industry and giving kudos to the ones we think are serving their audiences and their advertisers.

A few important things.

• One vote only – you may hate the worst radio group but you can only hate them once.
• Easily number the groups in order of your preference.
• Unlike some red states, you don’t need any identification to vote. I don’t want to know who you are so my Witness Protection Program applies here – my word that your vote will be as secret as an election in Haiti. Just kidding. No one will ever know your vote, which is more than we can say for some elections in New Jersey.

Our goal, recognize the good radio companies.

Call out the bad ones.

Put them in some order.

And then I’ll try to make sense of it all.

Let the games begin.

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• iHeart is right on schedule for bankruptcy in this quarter.
• The one thing that Bob Pittman did to make lenders turn tail and run.
• What will the next year be like for employees – programming, sales, management.
• Bigger commercial loads? Details.
• Pittman’s one last chance to snooker investors into giving him more time.
• Why Pittman doesn’t just get up and leave now – there’s a good reason.
• For real – no b.s. – what iHeart would have to do in revenue and share price to avoid bankruptcy.

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• Here’s how Howard Stern would turnaround iHeart even with $20.5 billion in debt (7 ways)
• And how Bob Pittman will run it into the ground instead (4 key ways no one sees coming).
• What Pittman is going to drop on his employees at the upcoming January webcast – consider this an early warning.
• Okay, Stern has a new contract with SiriusXM – here’s another winner who could turn iHeart around even with all that debt.
• What Stern would do with podcasting (you should heed his advice, he’s dead right).
• How he would get sales back on track.
• Move over Jingle Ball, for this …

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• What iHeart is offering greedy investors to get immediate interest rate relief.
• Why some are being fooled but others are rejecting the plan.
• Here’s the pitch to debt holders that tanked iHeart’s stock below a buck yesterday.
• How current investors will get screwed.
• What happens to $100 million in annual interest expenses if Bob Pittman’s latest plan is rejected.
• Plus a just-discovered hilarious new video in which Pittman says his job is to ride the rides.

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• The brutal and powerful new assistant is worse than John Dickey.
• How he ordered the firing of the father of two dead newly born triplets at his previous job to save a few bucks – get to know him here or just run for your life now.
• Mary’s new man who will help her turn the company around has been known to be a buzz kill at sales meetings telling sales managers in front of coworkers that they wouldn’t be needed any longer.      
• Why this is a bad omen for women at Cumulus with Mary’s latest mistake.
• Part of the role for Mary’s new right hand man is to keep an eye on Mike McVay – details on just exactly how he thinks he will do that.
• Why Wall Street money will see this move as proof that Cumulus cannot be saved.
• How Berner will put lipstick on this pig this week during the employee pre-Christmas webcast.

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• What’s keeping CBS from selling the stations Andre Fernandez was brought in to deal – and for how long.
• The merger from hell that buyers are afraid of.
• The best prospects to trade with CBS – there are not many, but we name them.
• What happens to CBS Radio next if it can’t unload at least one-third of its non-essential stations.
• The bad news on multiples – this is all you can get now if you sell the average radio station.

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• The sneaky little trick Bob Pittman is looking to pull off on employees.
• How it is built to blindside them into going along with it.
• Details on the scary terms that employees will have to approve.
• Why would a company that is about to reduce its workforce by the end of the year want to sign some people to contracts now.
• Why iHeart is even offering “incentives” to get what they want – quickly.  Details.
• Most importantly – why is this being done now.
• And what happens to employees who already have contracts and non-competes.

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• The growing concern leery investors have about iHeart’s ability to stay afloat.
• Why iHeart’s declining stock price – now a buck and a quarter – is not what lenders who control refinancing their debt are really worried about. Details.
• What to expect next from this cash strapped radio group that has lost Wall Street.
• Tough plans iHeart has for air talent – not pretty.
• The across the board sales commission cuts now being planned.
• The new timetable on automated media buying to reduce sales jobs.
• Why to keep an eye on Premiere Radio Networks.
• A new previously untouched group of iHeart employees is being targeted for layoffs right now.

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• What the new CEO is likely to reveal in her much-awaited employee webcast.
• Her verdict on McVay and Pizzati – deal with it or punt.
• Does she get rid of that time wasting sales software program ENGAGE or bullshit a couple of minor changes.
• Layoffs – they’re coming, does she decide to own them.
• Nash – dead or coming back stronger.
• Sexism, racism and discrimination against women employees – does she dodge it or face it.
• My checklist of 6 critical things Mary Berner must do to win the employees and have a chance to succeed. Do this and I’ll sell Apple and buy Cumulus.

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• How banning all Muslims will go over with Millennials (your younger 18-34 year old money demo).
• How to change the radio industry’s Vietnam mentality before it kills the last hope of talk radio.
• Why the current terrorism scare is a moment to attract the next generation of listeners.
• Authenticity – how the radio industry is losing the largest generation ever because it is not authentic.
• The litmus test to see if your station is in tune with 18-34 year old values.

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• When Pittman will head for the exit.
• Who will be iHeart’s “next Bob Pittman” – better, worse, the same.
• How Pittman’s departure will impact long-suffering employees.
• The reason he has been laying low lately.
• What pays off better for Pittman: get fired, quit or see the company sold.
• Golden Showers – Pittman’s unbelievable golden parachute.
• Why he will cost a lot more employees their jobs in his final days.

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• Why Gary Pizzati is the new Mike McVay.
• How Pizzati is helping the new CEO with the upcoming mass layoffs.
• The type of employee that Cumulus will cut first – details.
• Why Cumulus managers are beginning to get picked off even ahead of the layoff onslaught.
• The percentage of workforce expected to lose their jobs.
• How many rounds of layoffs will be necessitated.
• How pay cuts will work following layoffs.

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• Why this latest round of layoffs just now underway is really f@#ked up.
• How iHeart virtually wiped out an entire division yesterday to get warmed up – details.
• The divisions that should hunker down for big cuts.
• Keep an eye on “Hardly” Adkins – that’s all I will say.
• The final decision on laying off more iHeart salespeople.
• Survivors will get this take it or leave it offer.
• How corporate is pressing market managers to creatively fire people.
• The good news is that the current round of layoffs will be complete within a few weeks – maybe even before Christmas Eve. The bad news is …

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• The big names who could meet their demise this time coming as a shock to no one but them.
• We name some of the most vulnerable.
• Watch for these firings around rampant cronyism the kind that Mary Berner abhors.
• Formerly safe big name air talent now in harm’s way.
• Job security updates on Mike McVay, Todd Pettengill, Jack Diamond, Michael Savage and others.
• The senior level Cumulus exec who reportedly has asked the happy talk trade press to eliminate commenting on stories representing them.
• The Cumulus honcho who plans to lay low during the holidays while loyal and dedicated Cumulus employees get fired unless new CEO Mary Berner gets him too.
• The timeframe.
• And for laughs – the word on the enormously popular John Dickey and where he will land. Consider this a warning.

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