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• How to update the “hot clock” to reflect how audiences actually live and listen to radio today.
• For example, there is one programming element that can be added at no cost whatsoever – yet no stations do this ratings booster (until now?).
• Radio, take note: Striking stats on how the record business is successfully adapting to shorter radio listener attention spans and it goes virtually unnoticed.
• Too many commercials are a turnoff and they’re not going to be reduced anytime soon, but there is a way to mitigate the tune-out factor.
• Should AI be included in future format clocks – jump on it first, wait or say no way.
• The secret Spotify users have for what they want from a radio station.

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You may also like: How Audacy is Sportswashing Investors … Chaos at the Big 3 Radio Monopolies … Saga’s Pat Paxton Hire … What Post-Bankruptcy Audacy Might Look Like ... Local Advertisers Dumping Radio … Audacy Preps for Bankruptcy by Increasing Spending … Ford Won the AM Radio Battle … Audacy Bankruptcy Negotiations … The Surprise Audacy CEO After Bankruptcy … Crocodile Tears for AM Radio

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• “Retention Awards” from the cheapest radio group to keep employees who have no intention of leaving – why?
• Yes, yes David Field gets an unconscionable pay bump for presiding over a company preparing for bankruptcy – but look who else is getting spiffed now.
• Wall Street wants deep cuts from them so why is Audacy doing the exact opposite?
• Talent, programming and sales – their stake in this corporate money grab.
• Will the healthy radio companies start giving raises?

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You may also like: Saga’s Pat Paxton Hire … What Post-Bankruptcy Audacy Might Look Like ... Local Advertisers Dumping Radio … Audacy Preps for Bankruptcy by Increasing Spending … Ford Won the AM Radio Battle …Audacy Bankruptcy Negotiations … The Surprise Audacy CEO After Bankruptcy … Crocodile Tears for AM Radio… The Value Destruction of Audacy … iHeart’s Future in Artificial Intelligence

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• “The list” to address radio’s turn offs.
• Time spent listening enhancers.
• Where digital and podcasting fit in.
• Consolidators are already flirting with artificial intelligence (AI) – are listeners interested?
• How to harvest the “gift” of increasingly shorter attention spans.
• News and talk are on the list, but you may be shocked at how listeners want it now.

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Click to read: Competing Against Failed Radio Groups … The New Station Owners …. Cumulus All in On Exiting Radio … Turmoil Over Who Controls the Car Radio … Audacy’s Copycat Bankruptcy … How Audacy is Sportswashing Investors … Chaos at the Big 3 Radio Monopolies … Saga’s Pat Paxton Hire … What Post-Bankruptcy Audacy Might Look Like ... Local Advertisers Dumping Radio …

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• The three types of new owner that will be buying radio stations from desperate consolidators.
• There’s one consolidator that knows this already and they have already begun to take advantage of the next type of station owner.
• AM stations are being shut down or sold for pennies on the dollar – KABC is likely next – does that mean there is a brisk market for AM?
• How are the distressed radio stations sold by consolidators to new owners performing?
• The return of the mom-and-pop era?

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Click to read: Cumulus All in On Exiting Radio … Turmoil Over Who Controls the Car Radio … Audacy’s Copycat Bankruptcy … How Audacy is Sportswashing Investors … Chaos at the Big 3 Radio Monopolies … Saga’s Pat Paxton Hire … What Post-Bankruptcy Audacy Might Look Like ... Local Advertisers Dumping Radio … Audacy Preps for Bankruptcy by Increasing Spending … Ford Won the AM Radio Battle …

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• The profit in not growing the company.
• Plans for market managers.
• Latest distraction: a new low margin business with auto renew in fine print.
• They failed in network, podcasting and spot radio, here’s where they appear to be headed next.
• And, that $50 million buyback of stock has come under fire for this reason.

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You may also like: The Surprise Audacy CEO After Bankruptcy … Crocodile Tears for AM Radio … The Value Destruction of Audacy … iHeart’s Future in Artificial Intelligence … Lenders Pressure Audacy for Deeper Cuts …How the Fields’ Intend to Keep Audacy … Radio is Changing Layoff Rules … Bankruptcy Update on Audacy, Cumulus, iHeart & Beasley … The “Bowtie” That is Choking Radio … iHeart’s True Financials

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• The bankruptcy Audacy is modeling itself after.

• They even hired the same advisory firm.

• Based on this model – who can get screwed and who gets paid.

• Cumulus and iHeart (and potentially Audacy) filed bankruptcy before it was needed – what’s that all about?

• What are the chances a private equity backed company will file for bankruptcy compared to a traditional company – there are research numbers now available.

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You may also like: The Value Destruction of Audacy … iHeart’s Future in Artificial Intelligence … Lenders Pressure Audacy for Deeper Cuts … How the Fields’ Intend to Keep Audacy … Radio is Changing Layoff Rules … Bankruptcy Update on Audacy, Cumulus, iHeart & Beasley … The “Bowtie” That is Choking Radio … iHeart’s True Financials … Investors Rejecting Cumulus Earnings Charade … Voice Cloning Is Starting in Radio

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• What exactly is sportswashing and how Audacy is strategically employing it.

• This 1-for-30 share Audacy reverse stock split is not what it appears to be – there is a specific reason for this move and helping investors is not at the top of that list.

• The revealing report card on reverse stock splits.

• Field wants what Cumulus CEO Mary Berner was having when she filed for Cumulus – her version worked for her.

• Shareholders usually get screwed in reverse stock splits so why is Audacy’s so important?

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• The 5 groups that will experience at least one bankruptcy over the next couple of years (We’re batting 1.000 so far).
• One private equity group is about to sell off its radio assets.
• A great radio station cannot save a radio cluster – but here’s what can.
• No one wants to be in a consolidator’s shoes right now, but there is an emerging type of radio group to watch for.
• The coming explosion over average quarter hour listening so you can get ahead of it now.

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