Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

Lew Dickey is out trashing talk radio in the business press.

His Bloomberg interview last week is as subtle as an erection in a leotard.

Dickey is quoted as saying this about talk radio:  “People may be tired of all the partisan bickering.” 

This is from a man who airs Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on his air.

The one who invented Mike Huckabee as a Rush Limbaugh replacement.  After all, Cumulus has to pay to run Limbaugh but they pay Huckabee spit for money to get low ratings on their affiliates.

This is the genius behind Geraldo.

The savior of Savage.

Can you imagine Dickey trashing country music, or Nashville to the business press the way he dumped on talk radio?

I thought so.

Something big is brewing and I have it for you here.

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1. The next big major market format shakeup Dickey is signaling to the ad community.
2. The startling move ahead involving some iconic major market stations.
3. Why the Dickeys took Geraldo Rivera to the woodshed and bullied him into backing off of talking publicly about a senate bid – and believe it or not it has nothing to do with politics.
4. Other Cumulus talk show hosts that are on thin ice.
5. Why the Cumulus CEO publicly trashed his talk stations instead of just changing their formats – why this way?

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