On August 1, 2016 Mary Berner called trusted Lew Dickey loyalist and EVP Gary Pizzati into her office and asked him point blank “How do you want to go out?”
He had a three-year $1.5 million no cut contract and asked for a lump sum and contract termination.
Berner refused instead opting to honor the deal to keep him from rejoining Dickey so she benched Pizzati until the end of 2017 when he left.
Then Pizzati’s non-solicit kicked in which prevents him from hiring Cumulus employees during that period.
Now it’s payback time.
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