Clear Channel is getting ready for phase two of its employee firing scheme.
Rumor is -- Friday.
If the first one had been code-named Hiroshima, the next one will be Nagasaki -- a detonation that will continue to obliterate radio's talented population.
But don't let the way Clear Channel works distract you from what is going on with the rest of the consolidators.
Cumulus wiped out 12 people in one cluster alone just recently. Since Cumulus is not of the magnitude of Clear Channel, those firings were under the radar and didn't get the same attention -- unless you were one of the fired.
Citadel is hanging&hellip
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