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• The net effect of lowering the listening threshold with advertisers.
• How the move works with today’s shorter listening spans.
• The current lost listening that would be recaptured.
• The effect on quarter hours now loaded with commercials.
• And an even better idea that is not being considered that would help every station without signaling declining audiences.

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• Is new Audacy owner George Soros crazy or crazy like a fox?

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• The unspoken damage the FCC is doing to Audacy.
• Why other radio bankruptcies got the green light to emerge quicker.
• How this delay jeopardizes the Soros plan to rebuild Audacy.
• The delay’s effect on Audacy’s plan to sell, consolidate or shut down some stations.

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• What hedge-fund owners are going to do next to salvage their radio investments.
• If you’re in sales, your job is about to change radically.
• Big game hunting will be out to eliminate another radio employee.
• If an air-personality has a job within the next few years, here is what it will look like.
• The physical radio station of the future reimaged by hedge funds.

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Beasley is in big trouble – stock price of 56 cents, delisting notice pending, a recent offer to water down shares of stock to kick the can down the road and avoid bankruptcy, but with all this, wide-scale nepotism has finally hit a bump in the road.

• The Beasley that gets kicked to the curb.
• What they’re thinking as they stare down bankruptcy.
• How the boss mandates the way market managers must fire employees.
• Their new digital side hustle compared to their previous $30 million digital bust.
• What Beasley’s are willing to give up to save the company.

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• Hit and run formats are popping up in increasing numbers – their future.
• The reason Emmis is replacing their rental tenant ESPN with a Pop-Up station on 98.7 in New York.
• Which cohort benefits most from Pop-Up stations.
• How to measure audience acceptance.
• What administrative and sales structure will look like.

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• Why Audacy is brimming with optimism.
• How they are handling the talent and managers needed to turn the company around.
• What they are disinvesting in next.
• One company has Audacy’s number and is helping to drive it under.

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• A new opportunity for owners to offload AM stations they cannot afford.
• The advantages of owning an AM station – 3 undeniable new benefits.
• How to deal with broadcasting on the older-skewing AM band.
• A warning for FM operators that they are currently ignoring.

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