Cumulus is getting to be like “Keeping Up with the Kardickeyans”.
They have publicly given their senior programming VP a vote of confidence and you know what happens when they say the coach isn’t getting fired.
But it’s even more dysfunctional.
John Dickey is going to be making the music decisions from now on and there is not a lot of room to fire more people.
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