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Reading the Music Tea Leaves

Confession:  I don’t listen to music, and until a month ago could not have named the “big 4” record labels. While going through the financial reports of all the major radio networks (and the equity funding firms that now control … Continue reading

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Is Big Music about to devour Big Radio?

All of the big radio companies (Clear Channel, Citadel, Cumulus, Radio One, and to a lesser degree CBS) are in serious financial trouble.  They borrowed way too much money in the heady days of the late 1990s and early 2000s bidding … Continue reading

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