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• First good look at their rate of cash burn.
• The revenue they need to generate just to pay their bills.
• They sold WDRQ, Detroit for $10 million for quick cash – what’s on the block now?
• What they have in mind by promising to retrain the sales force.
• Why they are gutting many of their stations.

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Click to read: The Race to Rebrand Radio … Listeners Paying Streaming Rate Hikes Rather Than Free Radio … Religion is Soaring, Salem is Not … The Core Needs of Listeners Have Changed … Satellite has a Radio Problem… The Golden Bachelor Warning… Audacy’s Screwed Up Bankruptcy … The Rise of Unions in Media … Spillover Effects of a Disney TV Sale … The Projected Outcome of the Audacy Bankruptcy Talks …

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• Why virtually all religion-based stations are succeeding while Salem is in financial hot water.
• The winners and losers in one of America’s top format genres.
• Salem’s mistakes that EMF didn’t make.
• The ingenious formula EMF uses to buy stations on the cheap.

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Click to read: The Core Needs of Listeners Have Changed … Satellite has a Radio Problem … The Golden Bachelor Warning… Audacy’s Screwed Up Bankruptcy … The Rise of Unions in Media … Spillover Effects of a Disney TV Sale … The Projected Outcome of the Audacy Bankruptcy Talks … Audacy Hedges Its Bets … Threads, Twitter & Radio … Breaking Down Audacy’s 1-for3- Reverse Stock Split…

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• What a last-minute pre-packaged bankruptcy means to the operation of Audacy stations.
• The radio groups that are watching their latest tactics closely.
• One investor is in for the biggest shellacking.
• Lenders would rather stay with current management than have to run Audacy themselves. True or false?

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Click to read: The Rise of Unions in Media … Spillover Effects of a Disney TV Sale … The Projected Outcome of the Audacy Bankruptcy Talks … Audacy Hedges Its Bets … Threads, Twitter & Radio … Breaking Down Audacy’s 1-for3- Reverse Stock Split… AI’s Projected Impact on the Music Business …  Not That Format Hot Clock, This One …iHeart’s Misleading AI Goals … Cash-Strapped Audacy Paying Millions to Retain Execs …

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• We called this over a year ago in living color – along with the Cumulus and iHeart bankruptcies before that – now batting 1.000, here’s our projected outcome of the Audacy reorganization.
• Are lenders holding almost $2 billion in debt in the mood to cut a deal?
• Is it true that Audacy and David Field can somehow survive a pre-pack bankruptcy?
• The signs that this is going to get ugly.
• The projected outcome – who gets screwed, who gets lucky.

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• The not so warm and fuzzy CEO is now romancing the staff to get the one thing he desperately needs from them.
• How half-truths are being used to paint a picture of stability.
• Details of an orchestrated “charm offensive” to win back employees.
• David Field talks about the new people he hired – here’s what he is leaving out.
• What’s next: this final Hail Mary.

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• Reverse stock splits almost never work, so why did Audacy just do a 1-for-30 split?
• Why would one of the cheapest radio CEOs spend $3.2 million on pay raises and bonuses at a time like this.
• The coming potential screwing of Audacy shareholders.
• The favorite for running Audacy post-bankruptcy.
• Who is on the growing list of radio groups that are angling for a voluntary bankruptcy.

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