"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
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