INSIDE . . .

• Why “screwed” Cumulus employees are now speaking up and asking to be quoted – by name!
• How bad it got for a wronged Cumulus account exec -- in his own words.
• New opportunities to sue Cumulus – maybe this outrage happened to you.
• What happened when a fired employee went directly to CEO Mary Berner.
• What triggered this firing – you won’t believe it but it is true. Be warned.
• The other jobs this newly fired employee did for Cumulus -- for free.
• How Cumulus is getting tougher while talking softer.

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• What happens if Bob Pittman and Rich Bressler lose their case against 15 angry lenders.
• What’s next for the stations if they lose.
• Why can’t iHeart just replace the money they took out of the company and put it back.
• Why these lenders are taking a scorched earth approach.
• What’s the only thing that can save iHeart from being jolted into immediate bankruptcy at this point.

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• What’s currently in the works that will upend how Cumulus programming decisions are decided from now on.
• Where does all this leave national programming genius Mike McVay – you may be surprised.
• Who is getting more powerful under Mary Berner in making critical programming decisions.
• Why the sudden interest in Cumulus programming by of all people, the board of directors.
• What about the claim that one-third of Cumulus stations have improved their ratings.
• Who is Cumulus’ Last Great Survivor.
• What’s ahead for feeble-rated Nash country.
• And is this good or bad compared to the way things are now.

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• Which talent is bankruptcy bound companies like iHeart and Cumulus rushing to lock up.
• Why? And why so secret.
• What about pay raises – how much.
• What about their syndicated stars.
• How much power does the talent have in negotiations.
• How long are contract extensions for.
• Who are the “lucky” ones.

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• How iHeart is expanding the terms of non-competes to make it virtually impossible for fired employees to work in radio for an even longer time than ever.
• How long? You don’t want to know. Sit down when you read it.
• The way iHeart is planning to get around state laws that make non-competes illegal.      
• How iHeart is forcing employees who want to leave voluntarily to stay even if they don’t want to – and no, it’s not a pay raise.
• The one way iHeart will let an employee out of a non-compete.
• What happened to a top 15 market talent who told iHeart to take their job and shove it – ouch!

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INSIDE . . .

• The importance of May 1^st as iHeart’s Target List date.
• What does iHeart know that their employees do not about these RIFs.
• The two jobs likely to receive the most pink slips.
• A third group that is quaking in their shoes that they may also be included in this “target list”. And it’s a better than 50% chance they will.
• The down low on severance.
• 7 divisions – we name them – that are likely to be sold off.
• What iHeart will most definitely keep once they pair it down.
• A new, radical look to iHeart’s radio operations.
• How an iHeart employee is likely to be spared from RIFs – the litmus test.

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• Why lots of people who think they are safe will be out of a job in many other iHeart markets by the end of the year.
• Just days ago, another market was carpet bombed by iHeart but it was done under the radar (until now).
• The four most vulnerable jobs at iHeart for similar sneak-attacks on markets.
• And engineering is only one of the four surprises.
• If you’re a voice tracker of other stations, are you safe?
• A new meaning to satellite radio.
• Brutal non-competes

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• What’s the expiration date of Mary Berner as CEO of Cumulus.
• Why has Mary Berner made so few changes to such a troubled radio group – what’s up with that puzzling strategy.
• The big and surprising changes the Cumulus board has in store for the company.
• How much damage in terms of layoffs and firings will Mary have done before she departs.
• Who the next CEO could be – hint: not Lew.
• The one last hope for remaining Cumulus employees should Mary Berner get to complete her mission.

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INSIDE …

• Layoff plans for a company that will only have its radio revenue to run on.
• The one red flag that could get you fired at CBS Radio.
• Scott Herman – does he stay, does he go?
• How the CBS news stations face a threat they never had before.
• Talent drain or just stay and complain – the options on the table for shell shocked CBS employees.
• How programming is already eroding.
• The most realistic timeframe for the CBS Radio spinoff to happen.
• Andre Fernandez – does he stay with the smaller, less profitable CBS Radio group or make way for a seasoned radio exec?
• Dan Mason – would he, could he return for a third tour of duty once the spinoff occurs. Here’s your answer.

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• Why lockup your talent for the future in a company that has no future?
• What are Pittman and Bressler up to now? Just trying to be nice guys?
• What talent should know before they get into bed long-term with iHeart.
• How iHeart’s coming talent lockup affects Cumulus – yes, Cumulus.
• How many long-term contracts is iHeart looking frantically to re-sign.
• How far in advance of expiring contracts will they start re-negotiating.

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The hell that will break loose in 60 days if the lenders win …

How this game of chicken affects stations and iHeart employees …

The company memo that is scarring the bejesus out of workers …

Unprecedented pressure to be applied to iHeart employees …

The worst fears for health benefits, severance and retirement …

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Everything’s beautiful at CBS Radio.  We may even start acquiring stations soon.  It will be better to be a standalone company.  What’s suddenly gotten into them?

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$20.9 billion in debt? That’s the good news. Here’s what’s really going down at iHeart in the next 60 days that they don’t want anyone to know.

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• It wasn’t a glitch in Ronn Owens KGO contract that forced his abrupt departure to become an embarrassing return – here’s the real reason.
• Details on how Cumulus bungled another market shakeup.
• The one thing that could have (and still could) fix the mess in San Francisco – so simple, they missed it or don’t want to hear it.
• Surprising news about CEO Mary Berner’s involvement in the “San Francisco Fire” – almost beyond belief.
• Earth to Don Imus – here’s how they are coming to take you away (and guess who else).
• What they’re not letting on about Armstrong & Getty.
• And, Jerry, are they still going to roll this San Francisco “Fire” out in other major markets? Want the deadly honest truth?

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Join us tomorrow for the Advanced Radio Management Conference in Philadelphia – details here.

This is the only chance this year to solve four of the most critical problems facing radio at once.

1. Changing the way we engage audiences
2. Getting around a rigged ratings system
3. Growing on-air revenue and making real money from digital
4. Getting 18-34 year old Millennials to listen to radio

It’s all in the Advanced Radio Management Program, which begins tomorrow morning at 8 am in Philadelphia.

We know that radio revenue continues to decline.

We know that radio stations make no significant money from digital.

That the ratings system is hurting what audiences we attract.

And that unless we’re willing to go to school on what Millennials really want, they’re lost and so are we.

If you’re anywhere near an airport or a regional train station, don’t miss this opportunity to reset your year and assure that the decisions you make in these critical areas will be the ones that work.

Jerry Del Colliano invites you to join radio broadcasters and digital executives for a one-day interactive conference focused on leadership, responding to disruption and new content, programming and sales models.

Here’s the schedule with the topics and curriculum that are so relevant to radio at the present time.

Don’t just sit there, make it happen.

Advanced Radio Management Program Agenda

8 am              Registration/Complimentary Breakfast
9 am             Changing the Way We Engage Audiences
10:30 am       Break/Complimentary Snacks and Refreshments
10:45             Nielsen – Getting Around a Rigged Ratings System

12 Noon         Complimentary Lunch

1 pm              Growing On-Air Revenue / Making Money From Digital
2:30 pm          Break/Complimentary Snacks and Refreshments
2:45 pm          Doing A Millennial Radio Makeover
4 pm               Conference Concludes

Changing the Way We Engage Audiences

• New Ways to Repurpose 7pm to 5am
• How to Program to Shorter Attention Spans
• Strategies to Reinvigorate the Morning Show
• 3 Contests That Will Guarantee Millennial Listeners
• How to Retrain Air Talent to Sound Like Today’s Audiences
• Why it is Best To Focus on Fans Instead of Listeners
• Why Un-branding Your Station Attracts More 18-34s
• Eliminating the Hot Clock As Millennials Like No-Rules Radio
• How Radio Can Take Advantage of 18-34’s Growing Discontent With Music Streaming Services
• How to do “Twitter News” – Give them 22 Tweets not 22 Minutes
• What to do About 18-34’s Who Don’t Listen to Any Song All the Way Through
• Why Creating 2 or More Formats on One Station Now Makes Total Sense
• Why Radio Must Get Back to Contesting for 18-34 Millennial Gamers
• How to Increase Ad Results by One Simple Change
• The Radically New (Unrecognizable) Talk Radio Ahead
• How to Remove Hype 18-34 Year Old’s Hate About Radio
• How to Identify the Next New Radio Formats

Nielsen – Getting Around a Rigged Ratings System
(With Sean Hannity, Richard Harker, Glenda Shrader-Bos)

• How to Stop Losing Credit for Audience You Already Have
• The Truth About Voltaire
• The Hannity Research (80% of his listening lost to PPM flaws)
• Genres of Station Being Punished by PPM Technology
• Alternative strategies to PPM
• (Just added) Nielsen’s New Digital Ratings

Growing On-Air Revenue & Making Money From Digital

• Competing Against Rate Droppers
• What to do About Podcasting
• What is Short-Form Podcasting
• New Competition From User-Generated Content
• Finding New Revenue Streams
• How To Recession-Proof Your Station
• Master Short Form Video
• Revenue From Product Placement & Subscription Fees (Just Like Cable)
• How Millennials Are Changing Social Media Again
• The Future of Radio As a “Preview Channel”
• How to Create Binge Listening Content for Radio
• New Thinking About Streaming On-Air Content Online
• Career Advice & New Skills To Stay Relevant
• Better Ideas for the Station Website
• Motivational Tips for Employees (Cutbacks, Show Appreciation, Handling Disputes)
• How to Beat Declining Radio Revenue

Doing a Millennial Radio Makeover
(With Former Cox/CBS Programmer Dan Mason)

• Getting Millennials to Listen
• The 5 Things Millennials Want From Radio
• Gender Neutrality – the Next Big Thing
• How to Appeal to Millennials Without Turning Off Baby Boomers
• Surprise: Why Milllennials Don’t Like DJs Who Try to be Relatable
• More Music or Less Talk – Millennials Vote With Their Thumbs
• What Millennials Want in a Radio Personality
• Millennials Weigh in On Gossip and Hot Topic Talk
• Why Millennials Want Radio to be More Personalized Like Pandora (And How To Do It)
• How Millennials Want Radio to Change The Way They Talk to Them (On-Air)
• The Contest Prize Millennials Want Most (Not Cash, Dreams)

Led by Jerry Del Colliano whose background includes on-air and management roles in major market radio and television, publishing and digital as well as Professor of Music Industry at The University of Southern California.

This event will not be available by stream or video – only live and in-person April 6^th in Philadelphia.

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INSIDE …

• Details from markets where iHeart rate cuts are throwing buying into turmoil.
• Sample packages that will make your jaw drop.
• Even advertisers are apologizing.
• Counter-strategy by competitors that are beginning to work – their playbook.
• Three proven tactics that are helping iHeart competitors fight back from low ad prices – from the most successful rate preservers.
• One on-air move that costs absolutely nothing but has been proven to impress advertisers enough to get them to open their wallets and pay more even as iHeart drops their rates. It’s yours now.
• What a station is doing to get 95% renewal rates on one-year contracts while iHeart drops its drawers. That’s right, 95% renewal rates, Bob Pittman!

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Join us Wednesday for the Advanced Radio Management Conference – last minute details here.

Desperate stations are drastically dropping rates potentially putting the year in jeopardy for competitors.

They’re throwing digital in – for free.

Plus bonus spots that eviscerate any decent radio market cost per point.

And advertisers can’t so no to this assault on transactional business, which, sadly, for most stations, is the majority of what they write.

But as you’ll hear there are smart defenses against rate droppers.

Ways to get the same buyer who is taking the cheap rates and running and buying annual contracts.

This is the one thing stations can’t afford to let rate droppers do to them.

We are going to focus on strategies gleaned from operators who have found a very successful defense for maintaining rates and in the process have discovered a new way to deal with advertisers who are getting transactional buys from desperate broadcasters at prices so low they can’t turn them down.

The day focuses on arguably the most critical issues facing radio this year: re-engaging audiences, growing on-air revenue, making money from digital and doing a Millennial radio station makeover.

Driving the innovation needed to compete with multi-platforms in a time of great change is new thinking based on a better understanding of generational media especially the money demo of 18-34 year olds.

Jerry Del Colliano invites you to join radio broadcasters and digital executives for a one-day interactive conference focused on leadership, responding to disruption and new content, programming and sales models.

We invite you to see the schedule and drill down into the topics that are so relevant to radio at the present time.

Advanced Radio Management Program Agenda

8 am              Registration/Complimentary Breakfast
9 am              Changing the Way We Engage Audiences
10:30 am       Break/Complimentary Snacks and Refreshments
10:45 am       Nielsen – Getting Around a Rigged Ratings System

12 Noon         Complimentary Lunch

1 pm               Growing On-Air Revenue / Making Money From Digital
2:30 pm          Break/Complimentary Snacks and Refreshments
2:45 pm          Doing A Millennial Radio Makeover
4 pm               Conference Concludes

Changing the Way We Engage Audiences

• New Ways to Repurpose 7pm to 5am
• How to Program to Shorter Attention Spans
• Strategies to Reinvigorate the Morning Show
• 3 Contests That Will Guarantee Millennial Listeners
• How to Retrain Air Talent to Sound Like Today’s Audiences
• Why it is Best To Focus on Fans Instead of Listeners
• Why Un-branding Your Station Attracts More 18-34s
• Eliminating the Hot Clock As Millennials Like No-Rules Radio
• How Radio Can Take Advantage of 18-34’s Growing Discontent With Music Streaming Services
• How to do “Twitter News” – Give them 22 Tweets not 22 Minutes
• What to do About 18-34’s Who Don’t Listen to Any Song All the Way Through
• Why Creating 2 or More Formats on One Station Now Makes Total Sense
• Why Radio Must Get Back to Contesting for 18-34 Millennial Gamers
• How to Increase Ad Results by One Simple Change
• The Radically New (Unrecognizable) Talk Radio Ahead
• How to Remove Hype 18-34 Year Old’s Hate About Radio
• How to Identify the Next New Radio Formats

Nielsen – Getting Around a Rigged Ratings System
(With Sean Hannity, Richard Harker, Glenda Shrader-Bos)

• How to Stop Losing Credit for Audience You Already Have
• The Truth About Voltaire
• The Hannity Research (80% of his listening lost to PPM flaws)
• Genres of Station Being Punished by PPM Technology
• Alternative strategies to PPM
• (Just added) Nielsen’s New Digital Ratings

Growing On-Air Revenue & Making Money From Digital

• Competing Against Rate Droppers
• What to do About Podcasting
• What is Short-Form Podcasting
• New Competition From User-Generated Content
• Finding New Revenue Streams
• How To Recession-Proof Your Station
• Master Short Form Video
• Revenue From Product Placement & Subscription Fees (Just Like Cable)
• How Millennials Are Changing Social Media Again
• The Future of Radio As a “Preview Channel”
• How to Create Binge Listening Content for Radio
• New Thinking About Streaming On-Air Content Online
• Career Advice & New Skills To Stay Relevant
• Better Ideas for the Station Website
• Motivational Tips for Employees (Cutbacks, Show Appreciation, Handling Disputes)
• How to Beat Declining Radio Revenue

Doing a Millennial Radio Makeover
(With Former Cox/CBS Programmer Dan Mason)

• Getting Millennials to Listen
• The 5 Things Millennials Want From Radio
• Gender Neutrality – the Next Big Thing
• How to Appeal to Millennials Without Turning Off Baby Boomers
• Surprise: Why Milllennials Don’t Like DJs Who Try to be Relatable
• More Music or Less Talk – Millennials Vote With Their Thumbs
• What Millennials Want in a Radio Personality
• Millennials Weigh in On Gossip and Hot Topic Talk
• Why Millennials Want Radio to be More Personalized Like Pandora (And How To Do It)
• How Millennials Want Radio to Change The Way They Talk to Them (On-Air)
• The Contest Prize Millennials Want Most (Not Cash, Dreams)

Led by Jerry Del Colliano whose background includes on-air and management roles in major market radio and television, publishing and digital as well as Professor of Music Industry at The University of Southern California.

This event will not be available by stream or video – only live and in-person April 6^th in Philadelphia.

Please join us for this transformative experience.

Reserve a seat

Inquire about group rates