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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 TALKERS | February 24, 2021 Entercom Q4 Revenue Down 25.7%; Full Year 2020 Declines 33.6%. The third major radio company to present 2020 fourth quarter and full year financial data is Entercom ( Cumulus have already posted their financial results and iHeartMedia is scheduled to do the same tomorrow). The company reveals 2020 Q4 net revenue was $319.5 million, down 25.7% from the same period in 2019, and 2020 full-year net revenue was $1.06 billion, a decline of 33.6% from 2019. Entercom notes that since the depths of the pandemic revenue dip in the second quart...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 TALKERS | February 23, 2021 Cumulus Media Reports 2020 Q4 Net Revenue Down 13.9%; Net Revenue for Full Year of 2020 Declines 26.7%. The second major radio company to report financial figures from the fourth quarter and the full year of 2020 ( Beasley was first back on February 10), Cumulus Media reports net revenue of $245.8 million for the fourth quarter – a decline of 13.9% compared to the same period in 2019 – and full year 2020 net revenue of $816 million, down 26.7% from $1.1 billion reported in 2019. For Q4, Cumulus posted a loss of $249,000 a year afte...

Salem Radio Network talk host Larry Elder testifying remotely yesterday (2/17) before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on as a “rebuttal witness” opposing proposed legislation to provide reparations for descendants of slaves. During his testimony, Elder told Judiciary subcommittee chair Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) that “reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves.” You can see his complete five-minute testimony here. New Slave Reparations Podcast Launches Today. The issue of slavery reparations is the su...

Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70.  Talk radio legend  Rush Limbaugh passed away Wednesday (2/17) at his home in Florida at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer. First diagnosed in February of 2020, Limbaugh told his national radio audience in October that his cancer was terminal.  Limbaugh’s impact on not only the issues-oriented talk radio business but on media in general was profound. At the height of its popularity, The Rush Limbaugh Show laid claim to 20 million weekly listeners according to longtime syndicator  Premiere Networks. His influence on other forms of conservative med...

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 TALKERS | February 3, 2021 Key Networks and Bloomberg Offer ‘Tax Tips’ Daily Feature. Tax season is upon us and beginning Monday (2/8), Bloomberg Radio is making its daily feature “Bloomberg Tax Tips” available to stations. Bloomberg and syndicator Key Networks say in a press release, “2020 was a year like no other, and that makes the 2021 tax season one that requires special attention. Bloomberg Radio is meeting listeners’ needs with a special series of daily tax tips designed to air in the 10 weeks leading up to April 15, at the height of when lis...