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• The bad news half way through the year that is accelerating Cumulus cutbacks.
• What’s eating at market managers being squeezed harder.
• Cumulus revenue trends at the halfway point analyzed from their own Forcebook figures.
• Mary Berner’s plan to keep market managers from knowing how other markets are performing.

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• What does this mean for David Field and Entercom.
• Why the most powerful Wall Street analyst and Entercom cheerleader was relieved of her duties.
• And why just days before her high profile appearance at this week’s NAB Radio Show.
• Now no major lender is left to cover the industry – what does that look like for the future of radio.
• How losing Ryvicker is almost as important as losing Weezie – maybe more.

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• The investment money expires in 60 days, here’s what he will buy with it.
• What happened to taking over Cumulus. 
• The “surprise” decision that will eventually reshuffle the radio industry.
• The plan to morph Modern Luxury publishing into Modern Media.
• The chance that Modern Media will soon be hiring.

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1. What if Lew Dickey takes a pass on buying Cumulus?  How do lenders cash out then?
2. What changed in the past 2 months that could affect Malone’s iHeart takeover and a Dickey bid for Cumulus.
3. How employees will pay with their jobs if these two takeovers don’t happen.
4. Details and timeline of the fire sale that is coming.
5. The changes that will be forced on Cumulus without fresh money from an outside bidder.
6. How long before a Cumulus selloff.
7. The big cost cutting ahead.

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1. The radio job you don’t want if you want to buy a house.
2. The new ways groups are looking to save money as revenue erodes.
3. SiriusXM is the model – I’ll explain.
4. The potential for digital and podcasting jobs in radio.
5. You won’t even recognize the local station office due to big cuts.

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• Why Lew Dickey hired radio’s top social media expert away from Cumulus.
• Why now.
• How he plans to use her expertise.
• The other Cumulus employees who also want to join Lew.
• What happens to Berner’s “toxic workplace”.
• The rehearsal for what is to come.

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1. Mary Berner feel good tactics are coming to Entercom – here’s a sampling.
2. The most pissed off CBS employees working at Entercom – and why.
3. Is it possible for Entercom to undo parts of the merger?
4. The reason why CBS employees are not assimilating well into Entercom.
5. How they plan to handle widespread morale problems on the CBS side.

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1. How iHeart, Cumulus & Townsquare are putting themselves in extreme financial trouble.
2. Group owners demanding top dollar – for trade, not cash!
3. Relaxed advertiser credit standards – how low some radio groups are now willing to go.
4. The new normal for getting top ad rates – and there’s nothing normal about it.
5. Townsquare’s mind-blowing barter deals.
6. How TS explains their loose credit policies in their own words.

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• The CBS Merger Fix – What Entercom is going to do now to fix their botched CBS merger assimilation.
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• What Cumulus Employees Want – One group of employees actually faced down CEO Mary Berner with this request.  She denied it.
• Nike, Kaepernick & Radio – How radio used to ignite the passions of P1s – the way Nike just did.

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• How trade put on the books as cash will be used to cover-up expected big losses in the third-quarter.
• How that actually works -- legal but deceptive.
• The latest Cumulus revenue pacing numbers based on their own metrics with only one month left in the third quarter.
• The cover-up revealed – even board members may be fooled by this disguise.
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