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Only weeks to go before Soros takes majority ownership of Audacy.

Can they save the neglected crown jewel CBS stations?

The biggest fears moving forward under new ownership.

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• Will they survive the meltdown of larger consolidators?
• Should they get out and investors buy low.
• The best investment in radio at this moment.
• Whispers about the future of radio with digital.
• How small and medium markets will deal with the high price of local.

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• What Field has been reportedly saying to others about his future at Audacy.
• The case for keeping a CEO who lost billions of dollars of shareholders value.
• Why Alex Soros might be looking for another CEO.
• The one thing Field has that Soros can strongly relate to.

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• iHeart is talking a big game for the future, but this is what’s actually going on.
• Why they hired a financial advisor.
• What is prompting so much concern.
• Their “near takeover”.
• Their surprising biggest source of revenue.

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• Did Salem just do what some fear Soros will wind up doing?
• What complicates Salem’s hopes to stay out of bankruptcy.
• Is radio being used to gain political influence?
• Ways once prosperous Salem is hanging on by threads.

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• What iHeart is up to with a reimagined hiring/firing scheme.
• What we’re hearing about big salary hires.
• Why this will change the way other radio groups think.
• The new thinking about required years of experience and big pay.
• Notable allegations of employee distrust.

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• Years of evading taxes that cannot be disputed – how they did it.
• The template for other radio companies teetering on bankruptcy.
• The use of legal fees to bully a settlement.

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• iHeart has not given out cost of living increases to most employees for over a decade, but there is one type of employee they are afraid to lose.
• What is prompting their change in attitude about compensation.
• How they set the table for other major radio groups to follow suit.
• The safest job in radio.
• 2 case studies: new found money.

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• Audacy is limping out of bankruptcy next month, Cumulus and iHeart face a second bankruptcy within the next few years and most of the remaining radio groups whose stock is trading under $1 are on track to be delisted.
• Health check of radio’s top 3 groups.
• Best and worst outcomes for all three.
• What are the big groups thinking – what we’re hearing about their future options.

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• How anyone unhappy with George Soros owning a large share of Audacy can now block it or fatally delay it by filing one piece of paper.
• If the FCC fails to act in favor of the pending waiver Soros needs, then what?
• How Audacy is quickly losing control of a critical timeline out of bankruptcy.
• The prognosis of a fresh start promised by Audacy to advertisers and employees in light of recent developments.

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