• Enough of the spin doctoring, I turned the big 3 radio group financials over to a truth squad made up of former and present top radio execs who know how to break out financials.
• Then they broke out iHeart, Audacy and Cumulus profit in naked numbers with nothing to dress them up.
• Which groups are actually performing as they say and which CEOs are acting like Pinocchio.

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Audacy Threatens Employees Who Bolt for Beasley

How the Nielsen Delisting “Blackmail” Succeeded

Winning Back Podcast Listeners

The Downsizing of iHeart Physical Stations

Chicago Sales Rebellion at Audacy

• How a demoted employee and jilted seller done wrong are now extracting payback.
• Audacy retaliation: "if one more goes there, I am going to have to get legal involved, and possibly change the non-compete." 
• How Beasley is successfully circumventing Audacy’s non-compete.

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How the Nielsen Delisting “Blackmail” Succeeded

Winning Back Podcast Listeners

The Downsizing of iHeart Physical Stations

Chicago Sales Rebellion at Audacy

Crazy Changes in Listening Habits

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• It’s been 2 years since Nielsen threatened to delist stations that did not subscribe to their ratings service – what followed turned out to be complicated.
• Nothing dumber than an advertiser and their ad agency – how much they knew, when they knew it and the major things they continue to turn a blind eye to.
• The radio group that did more to help Nielsen crack down on their competitors – thank them.
• Horror story in Norfolk.

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Winning Back Podcast Listeners

The Downsizing of iHeart Physical Stations

Chicago Sales Rebellion at Audacy

Crazy Changes in Listening Habits

iHeart Stole Radio’s COVID Advertising

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• Their blueprint for smaller radio stations.
• Often radio CEOs like David Field and Bob Pittman move to redevelopment areas that are not always convenient for employees selling it as investing in local communities – here’s their real reason.
• What’s next in downsizing actual station floorplans.
• But they have a problem – sales and like it or not, here’s the solution coming to a market near you.

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Chicago Sales Rebellion at Audacy

Crazy Changes in Listening Habits

iHeart Stole Radio’s COVID Advertising

Facebook is Having Its Radio Moment

Radios Rogan/Spotify Fallout

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• In the past week Audacy lost more key sellers in Chicago and Detroit – why is this still happening and what’s the plan to stop it.
• How bad is it? The eye-popping exodus toll – don’t even try to guess, you’re too low – the complete list.
• Yes, the much-ridiculed Audacy sales compensation package isn’t helping but it’s something entirely different that is increasing the exodus.
• And the question everyone wants answered is how are Audacy regional VPs keeping their jobs while revenue tanks needlessly.

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Crazy Changes in Listening Habits

iHeart Stole Radio’s COVID Advertising

Facebook is Having Its Radio Moment

Radios Rogan/Spotify Fallout

Nielsen Overestimates Streaming by 4x AQH

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• Passing over stations with far higher audiences because of iHeart’s 3 promises.
• How iHeart won the majority of COVID ad money.
• The iHeart ad pitch that the feds fell for.

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Facebook is Having Its Radio Moment

Radios Rogan/Spotify Fallout

Nielsen Overestimates Streaming by 4x AQH

My NYU Students’ Advice for Radio

What Ratings Execs Advise Privately About Floating Clocks

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• The new direction.
• Changes that have already been made on some of their all-newsers.
• Changes being tested with a sampling of early results.

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Amateur Hour at Audacy

Nielsen’s Supply Chain Excuse

Townsquare’s Big Surprise

Investors Fear an Audacy Meltdown

First Group to 20+ Spots Per Hour

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• The real reason behind David Field’s all-news management shakeup.
• How stealing a public radio exec could blow up in his face.
• Audacy’s bungling of the cash-rich all-news format – documented from inside accounts.
• Will Field pull the trigger on looming all-news consolidation?

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Nielsen’s Supply Chain Excuse

Townsquare’s Big Surprise

Investors Fear an Audacy Meltdown

First Group to 20+ Spots Per Hour

Spotify Blinks

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• The scary numbers investors are worrying about
• The reasons such good stations are doing so poorly
• Then there’s what’s happening at Kansas City and St. Louis
• The next few weeks

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First Group to 20+ Spots Per Hour

Spotify Blinks

Desperate Radio CEOs Buy Favorable Ratings

Audacy’s Hiring Problem

iHeart Foreign Sale Still on the Table