Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

"If you're going through hell, keep going" said Winston Churchill.

That best describes the critical situation the people of the radio industry find themselves in again this week -- perhaps the most crucial in the history of the business.

Clear Channel is getting ready to implement the Lee & Bain plan to drastically cut personnel while swinging to a model of national syndication in order to further cut costs.

What is likely -- perhaps as soon as this week -- is the unraveling of local radio as we know it for the repeater station concept -- especially in the non-major markets. So what we could soon see is radio&hellip