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• Radio is unnecessarily pissing off its listeners.
• Several listener complaints that can be remedied at little to no expense at all.
• The somewhat surprising audience input on promos, sweepers and morning shows.
• A way to get around programming to Nielsen PPM instead of the new needs of in-demo audiences.

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• The sudden emphasis on long tenured and older employees as layoff targets.
• The latest trick they’re using to potentially defend against ageism lawsuits.
• The 60-year old’s not in harm’s way.
• It goes both ways, a top revenue manager bolted for a surprising non-radio job.
• The new forced-retirement.

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• What automakers have against AM radio.
• The reason manufacturers want to shut down radio.
• Learn about the next iteration of infotainment systems on FM, satellite and digital devices.
• How next year’s digital dashboard is being reimagined.
• Relevant tests underway by Tesla, Apple and BMW.

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• The effect of a smaller, weaker sports presence on competitors.
• Learn whether there will be  more walking away from expensive NFL rights agreements.
• The strangest Audacy firings perhaps ever – sports head Mike Dee and podcast exec Tim Murphy.
• The big salaries now being eliminated predict as an indicator of where Audacy will be diminished.
• The revised and latest Audacy downsizing strategy.

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• If you thought you knew what the top iHeart execs are making, you may want to think again.
• The ratio of CEO pay to that of median employees for 2022.
• Expensive, high level hiring now going on during layoffs.
• iHeart’s sorry, not sorry scenario for focusing on firing radio people.
• 100% pay increases for this year compared to last.

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• What Urban One is thinking by taking Cox Houston off the hands of a more than anxious seller while deeply in debt.
• Such a deal – wait until you crunch the numbers.
• The reason Urban One can’t file its 2022 Form 10-K revenue statement required by the SEC on time while every other group has done so.
• Their casino ambitions.
• The way they will spinoff stations to comply with ownership limits.

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• The tactic of changing employee start dates.
• How they keep holding severance checks back without a non-compete – even where they are not legal.
• Sample a laundry list of jobs that have nothing to do with radio that fired iHeart employees are now forbidden to take.
• A look at the hurtful non-competes that the NAB is backing even as Congress looks to dismantle them.
• The way to outdo iHeart like a top employee just did to catch them off guard.

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• The benefit of tanking
• Rethinking the Reverse Stock plan
• If you bought Audacy stock ahead of the split, then …
• There’s an updated new debt figure
• Learn what they’ve decided to do about their personnel problem

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• Fair warning:  iHeart stock may be getting ready to do an Audacy dive.
• Focus on why the financial world is suddenly worried about the industry’s number one consolidator.
• Their promise not to lay off more employees made a few weeks ago after taking away benefits.
• The lawsuit that is being threatened as lawyers are looking for a few good employees to file a Class Action suit – details and contacts.

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