Jeff Smulyan Torches Bob Pittman

  • Pittman dressed down in public for the first time by a sitting media CEO
  • What happens when you cross him
  • David Field’s strange relationship with Pittman
  • Who Smulyan calls “Thelma and Louise” at iHeart

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Blowback Over Audacy’s $825,000 Employee Contract

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  • Details of the lucrative pay package from the same guy who has been firing radio people.
  • A bonus for leaving?
  • What’s gotten into David Field to make him spend like this.
  • How does this bode for other employees ahead?

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Programming to Short Attention Spans

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  • Solutions to short attention span tune-out
  • What holds attention longer – one voice or two for shows and commercials
  • A no added expense way to keep audiences listening longer
  • A surprising finding about content and attention span

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How ChatGPT Can Help a Radio Station

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  • Six specific things artificial intelligence can now do for radio stations at no cost.
  • How AI can help discover new music – the number one interest of in-demo listeners.
  • Microsoft is considering investing $10 billion in ChatGPT – here’s an early look as to why.
  • The future for radio jobs if AI takes off.

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Radio Groups Pressured to Cut Staff

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  • The most likely radio group to start cutting personnel first
  • How many gross firings can be expected
  • Layoffs net minor savings so what triggers radio groups to do them
  • One radio group may even see their CEO kicked out

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Video Podcasts More Popular Than Audio

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  • The research that has radio consolidators concerned
  • The new podcast tool TikTok is currently testing
  • Using music to get short attention spans to focus on podcasts

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How Radio Will Beat FTC’s Non-Compete Ban

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  • The workaround already in the works
  • “Firing” horror stories that radio groups cover up – revealed
  • New ways to retaliate against sellers, managers and talent
  • How soon could radio see non-competes disappear

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Audacy Bankruptcy Becoming More Likely

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  • What’s the critical importance of April to Audacy
  • They wouldn’t do a brutal employee layoff after just giving their digital chief over a million in salary and incentives, would they?
  • How the sale of Cadence13 and Radio.com URL is going
  • What to expect when Audacy is delisted from the NYSE

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Click to read previous storiesAudacy on a Spending SpreeiHeart Suckers 43 Air PersonalitiesSaga’s First Big Bungle Invasion of Foreign Owners to Local RadioThe Pivot Away from PodcastingConsolidators Adopt New Layoff StrategyAudacy’s Sale of Radio.com Exposed2023 PredictionsConsolidator to Cut Sales CommissionsCh-ch-changes Ahead for Radio

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Townsquare May Shut More AM Stations

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  • Townsquare’s thinking behind shutting more AM stations.
  • The big radio group that is most likely to follow next.
  • Apple’s plan for CarPlay that makes reassessing viability of AM suddenly more pressing.
  • Where does the concept of offering radio as a paid app leave AM stations?
  • Where does that leave sports betting as the savior of AM?

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Click to read previous stories: Audacy on a Spending SpreeiHeart Suckers 43 Air PersonalitiesSaga’s First Big Bungle Invasion of Foreign Owners to Local RadioThe Pivot Away from PodcastingConsolidators Adopt New Layoff StrategyAudacy’s Sale of Radio.com Exposed2023 PredictionsConsolidator to Cut Sales CommissionsCh-ch-changes Ahead for RadioBongino Exit Only the Beginning

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Audacy On a Spending Spree

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  • Pay and benefits that are unlike Audacy’s stingy reputation.
  • Dig deeper into an actual new contract (since the new year).
  • Learn who is fortunate enough to get this type of compensation.
  • First acknowledgement that there could be a change of control ahead.
  • Where this leaves the expected RIFs due first quarter.

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

iHeart Suckers 43 Air Personalities

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  • A $10 million plus scam of major proportions that has shaken the company.
  • How they put some of their most compelling air personalities in harm’s way without fully disclosing the risk.
  • Even involving their children.
  • The story so embarrassing that their “most trusted name in radio news” publication refused to cover it.
  • How low iHeart went to bolster billing.

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell

Saga’s First Big Bungle

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  • Proof that the Ed Christian era is over
  • The one big change that will disrupt the company
  • Why its founder will soon be turning over in his grave
  • The new Saga management model – would you sign off on this?

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Click to read previous stories: Invasion of Foreign Owners to Local RadioThe Pivot Away from Podcasting Consolidators Adopt New Layoff StrategyAudacy’s Sale of Radio.com Exposed2023 PredictionsConsolidator to Cut Sales CommissionsCh-ch-changes Ahead for RadioBongino Exit Only the BeginningMusic Tax Compromise May be NearA Threat Even Bigger Than No Car RadioCumulus Scrambles to Sell More Assets

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The Pivot Away from Podcasting

  • A “new” replacement for podcasting as a radio revenue source
  • Changes managers are noticing from corporate about selling podcast ads
  • Deadly honest quote:  “Declining attention spans that now average around 5 seconds make a 20-minute, half-hour or full-hour podcast an impossible task for distracted audiences.”

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Previously: Consolidators Adopt New Layoff StrategyAudacy’s Sale of Radio.com Exposed2023 PredictionsConsolidator to Cut Sales CommissionsCh-ch-changes Ahead for RadioBongino Exit Only the BeginningMusic Tax Compromise May be NearA Threat Even Bigger Than No Car RadioCumulus Scrambles to Sell More AssetsCash Infusion Deals ExposedNot So Fast on No Saga Sale

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2023 Predictions

  • 7 radio predictions, 2 on podcasting, 4 for music industry, 2 for cable news and 3 devoted to streaming video.
  • Predictions about David Field, iHeart, Urban One, Beasley, Cumulus, Townsquare among others.
  • What’s ahead for further consolidation.
  • Area of major concern for the booming music business.
  • Radio’s best company in 2023.

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Previously: Consolidator to Cut Sales CommissionsCh-ch-changes Ahead for RadioBongino Exit Only the BeginningMusic Tax Compromise May be NearA Threat Even Bigger Than No Car RadioCumulus Scrambles to Sell More AssetsCash Infusion Deals ExposedNot So Fast on No Saga SaleAQH Erodes As Listener Demands are IgnoredTaylor Swift Fans Go After Ticketmaster

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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed.  Everything else is just public relations --  George Orwell