{"id":6145,"date":"2012-12-06T02:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6145"},"modified":"2012-12-06T02:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T07:47:53","slug":"merger-rumor-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6145","title":{"rendered":"Merger Rumor Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Wilson, the guy who put together Citadel before the VC folks decided they really wanted to own ABC has resurfaced, buying up a small radio owner that has 37 really small market stations<\/p>\n

CBS Radio has been letting it be known it would like to unload its small market stations once prices look better. One rumor is Cumulus might be interested – ownership caps would prevent a total merger, but CBS owns a lot of smaller market stations that match what Cumulus is doing. That SweetJsck thing must be really taking off.<\/p>\n

The likely drastic changed in tax laws may motivate people to do deals to recognize capital gains in this year. Could Clear Channel go public soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larry Wilson, the guy who put together Citadel before the VC folks decided they really wanted to own ABC has resurfaced, buying up a small radio owner that has 37 really small market stations CBS Radio has been letting it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6145\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}