Townsquare Media is owned by Private equity firm Oaktree Capital. After Clear Channel went public, many of the small market stations were sold off because they were not economically viable. <\/p>\n
Over the years, Townsquare bought up a lot of other radio stations from bankruptcy sales – mostly in the “rust belt” around the Great Lakes. The concept seems to be like if you take string and wrap it up in a ball, if you get enough string it will become valuable.<\/p>\n
According to their SEC filing, they own 312 stations and had $279 million of revenue. The company made a net profit in 2013 of $10 million<\/p>\n
However, the finances radically changed as Oaktree (not Townsquare) unloaded Westwood One \/ Dial Global onto Cumulus in exchange for a bunch of similar small market stations. Townsquare added $285 million in new debt which hasn’t yet fully been reflected into the overall results.<\/p>\n
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