Johnny Carson used to do a sketch called Carnac The Magnificent in which sidekick Ed McMahon first fed him the answers and "Carnac" then supplied the questions.
McMahon: Anheuser Bush
Carson: Where do you grow Anheuser berries?
Carnac's character was a seer and soothsayer. I thought of him when I received one of the most astonishing emails recently in which a radio executive provided both the questions and answers back before consolidation.
But this email was no laughing matter.
Many of you ask me what I think the industry will look like in the next five or ten years. It
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