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In AM talk radio, a long list of far-right pundits have been promoting the debunked conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump was the victim of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. But following the storming of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 by a mob of violent extremists, domestic terrorists and white nationalists, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Atlanta-based Cumulus Media</a> has ordered its employees to quit promoting voter fraud conspiracy theories.The Washington Post's Paul Farhi reports that in an internal memo — which was first reported by <a href="https://insidemusicmedia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Inside Music Media</a> — Brian Philips, executive vice president of content for Cumulus, wrote, "We need to help induce national calm NOW." Phillips went on to say that Cumulus and Westwood One, which syndicates Cumulus programming, "will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved, and there are no alternate acceptable 'paths.'"Phillips warned Cumulus employees, "If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately."Farhi explains, "The new policy is a stunning corporate clampdown on the kind of provocative and even inflammatory talk that has long driven the business model for Cumulus and other talk show broadcasters. And it came as Apple, Google and Amazon cut off essential business services to Parler, the pro-Trump social media network where users have promoted falsehoods about election fraud and praised the mob that assaulted the Capitol. Apple and Google removed the Parler app from the offerings for its smartphones, while Amazon suspended it from its Web-hosting services."Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino are among the many far-right radio hosts who are employed by Cumulus and, Farhi notes, "have amplified Trump's lies that the vote was 'rigged' or in some way fraudulent." Levin, in fact, encouraged Republicans in Congress not to honor the Electoral College results, which showed that President-elect Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Biden defeated Trump by more than 7 million.The mob that stormed the Capitol Building on January 6 was hoping to prevent Congress from ratifying Biden's Electoral College victory but only succeeded in delaying it. Hours after the attack, Congress resumed its joint session and ratified Biden's win.One radio host who won't be directly affected by Cumulus' directive is Rush Limbaugh, whose program is broadcast on many Cumulus-owned stations but is syndicated by Premiere Networks. Cumulus owns and operates Westwood One.Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers Magazine, told the Washington Post that Cumulus and other media companies "recognize they're in the hot seat right now because the national eye is on them" and that talk radio hosts "never expected" their comments on the 2020 election to "get out of hand" in the way they did on January 6."I would hope they put their personal feelings aside and come clean with their listeners," Harrison told the Post. 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The third largest AM and FM broadcaster in America is blocking an interview one of its radio hosts conducted with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Cumulus Media, a conservative broadcaster that owns and operates over 400 radio stations in 87 media markets across the country, told Blair Garner, host of The Blair Garner Radio Show, he could not air any part of his interview with Buttigieg. Garner said via Twitter, “My employer decided I couldn’t air it.”
Garner hosts his show on FM country music radio stations and is nationally syndicated across more than 150 stations. Cumulus blocked any station from airing the 20-minute interview, according to HuffPost.
 “I’ve been told that the interview cannot air,” Garner also wrote in an email sent to affiliates. “I was very proud that a presidential candidate of any party valued our show to the degree that they would ask to be a guest.”
“It is not, in any way shape or form, my intention for our show to become political,” he also told affiliates, adding: “Just to be clear, I would have also enthusiastically welcomed the opportunity to have any candidate, including President Trump, as a guest. It was simply that Mayor Pete showed up, and made the ask.”
Garner says he was allowed to post the interview to his personal Soundcloud page.“The decision was made by local programming management based solely on concerns related to the application of the FCC’s Equal Time Rule,” a Cumulus spokesperson told HuffPost in a statement. “The effects of the FCC’s Equal Time Rule are widely understood and considered whenever these types of issues arise.”<div class="p10_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Country music newsletter publisher Kurt Bardella, a former Republican congressional spokesperson who <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-party-switch-20171208-story.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">became a Democrat</a> after the GOP embraced accused child molester Roy Moore, called Cumulus’ decision “an incredible act of cowardice for a company who’s slogan is ‘Where Every Voice Matters’ to censor an interview with someone who, for the first time ever, thought it was worthwhile to engage the country music audience in a conversation about the future of our country.”...<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">see franken tweeden<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=<div style="">6/16</div><div style="">Perhaps Rush Limbaugh doesn’t want to announce the price of his next contract for several reasons. First, he may not have one at all. His parent companie <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1514588/edit" target="blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">iHeart andCumulus are going under financially and/or going bankrupt. His predominant audience is now over 65. Sponsors/advertisers won’t go near his toxic show so talk radio is costing the radio industry millions income, he’s scores of big and little radio stations, his ratings are low </a>and he’s just bad business. Other than that, I can’t imagine why he’s not talking about future contracts.  6/16</div>=mm: eric bCan you image the awkward phone calls that were recently made to discuss the fact  Hannity's longtime 9 p.m. perch on Fox News had <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/megyn-kelly-reportedly-taking-over-sean-hannitys-time" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">reportedly been given away</a> to Megyn Kelly, and that Hannity's <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/limbaugh-to-reup-hannity-to-split-with-cumulus-source-170639.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">no longer</a> going to be heard on 40 major market talk radio stations owned by Cumulus Media, including Hannity's flagship outlet, WABC-AM New York City.
Either one of those setbacks would qualify as a major career stumble for a right-wing media host who has enjoyed noted stability on radio and television over the last decade. But for both of those to come in the same month, in the span of seven days?Ouch.In the national radio and television arena it's all about your platforms; how many radio stations you're heard on and how good your time slot is on television. Nobody's suggesting Hannity's voice will soon be silenced. But when you get bumped from your primetime TV slot of more than a decade, and then you have to scramble to find new AM homes in crucial markets such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas, that means you're having a really bad month.On the Fox front, it appears that Hannity's aging viewers, made up largely of retirees, may be costing him his 9 p.m. position as the cable channel struggles to retain a younger audience. As for his messy radio breakup with Cumulus, Hannity sources <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/hannity-dumps-cumulus-media-nations-2-talker-wont-re-sign#sthash.d7hZcSW5.dpuf" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">now insist</a> he wanted to get taken off <a href="http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/84395/report-cumulus-to-drop-limbaugh-hannity/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hallmark</a> talk stations like WLS in Chicago, WJR Detroit, and KSFO San Francisco. If he did, Hannity might be the first syndicated talk show host to ever wish to do so.More likely however, that's just weak spin.Fox News hasn't yet made public what its primetime lineup will look like with the addition of Megyn Kelly in the 9 p.m. time slot, or where Hannity might land. Kelly's addition is seen as an attempt by Fox chief Roger Ailes to address the accelerated trend of Fox losing viewers between the ages of 25-54; the viewers advertisers most want to reach.As Bill Carter noted in the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/business/its-viewers-are-graying-but-their-passion-pays-for-fox-news.html?pagewanted=all&r=0&pagewanted=print" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">last month</a>:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;">[F]or six of the last eight years, Fox News has had a median age of 65-plus and the number of viewers in the 25-54 year old group has been falling consistently, down five years in a row in prime time, from an average of 557,000 viewers five years ago to 379,000 this year.</blockquote>In the second quarter this year, Fox scored its <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/q2-2013-ratings-fox-news-1-for-11-12-years_b186570" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">lowest ratings</a> among 25-54 viewers since 2001. In total viewers, Fox had 1.2 million during the second quarter, compared to CNN's 475,000. But when you look at just the crucial 25-54 demographic, Fox's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/business/media/megyn-kelly-to-get-prime-time-slot-on-fox-news.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">ratings lead</a> over second-place CNN shrank dramatically: 238,000 total viewers for Fox, compared to 161,000 for CNN.For Fox, the Kelly move likely came down to demographics and the fact that Hannity's audience is remarkably old didn't help his cause: 17 percent of the public is 65 and older, yet 42 percent of regular Hannity viewers are senior citizens, <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/2009/02/03/limbaugh-holds-onto-his-niche-conservative-men/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">according</a> to Pew Research. (Bill O'Reilly audience also skews older, but it's larger than Hannity's.)Meanwhile, the radio storm that's enveloped Hannity recently represents the end game to a long, <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F2013%2F08%2F05%2Ffor-rush-limbaugh-the-damage-is-done%2F195228&ei=XNESUtbhLdHH4APdqYCYCQ&usg=AFQjCNEYtidQO4WCgWzvKbUq1rVNY6BD-g&bvm=bv.50952593,d.dmg" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">public negotiation</a>that Cumulus launched in the press. Sending a signal to both Hannity and Rush Limbaugh that it was unhappy with the high costs associated with carrying their programs, Cumulus threatened to cut ties with each on its 40 talk stations. According to Politico's <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/limbaugh-to-reup-hannity-to-split-with-cumulus-source-170639.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">latest report</a>, Limbaugh has worked out a deal to stay with Cumulus stations. Hannity has not.The high-profile affiliate news represents the most serious setback to Hannity's radio career since he first became a syndicated host a decade ago. Hannity's show is distributed by Premiere Networks, which is owned by radio behemoth Clear Channel Entertainment. Some Clear Channel-owned stations will pick up Hannity's show in the markets where Cumulus is dropping him. But still, the move stings.And that's why Hannity's team fanned out in recent days <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/17/hannity-fires-cumulus#ixzz2cTA6R7wl" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claiming</a> the host wanted to part ways with Cumulus, claiming it was his idea. Hannity's sources insisted the talker hated working for Cumulus because <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/17/hannity-fires-cumulus" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">it treats</a> its employees "like dirt, shit, sub-human." And according to a particularly <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannitys-had-it-host-will-ditch-cumulus-compete-against-replacement/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">friendly telling</a> in Mediaite, Hannity was said to be furious at how many station employees Cumulus had laid off in recent years.But the spin doesn't hold up.If Cumulus hosts such an awful, boorish culture why is Limbaugh renewing his contract with them?And it's Hannity who supposedly decided to walk away from Cumulus because the broadcasting group has fired too many people? Veterans inside the radio industry must still be chuckling at that one. The punch line stems from the fact that over the last ten years Hannity's bosses at Clear Channel have <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/05/05/limbaughs-living-large-while-radio-boss-clear-c/149841" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">laid off</a> thousands and thousands of employees. Clear Channel has pretty much defined itself by the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2001/04/30/clear_channel/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">ruthless way</a> it has treated its employees and <a href="http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79889/clear-channel-cuts-some-more/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">endless ways</a> it's found to fire them; to strip down once-vibrant stations, run them on the cheap, and then often run them into the ground. There's a reason Clear Channel is known as the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Steinberg-t.html?r=0" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Evil Empire</a> of commercial radio.But according to Hannity's sources, the talker can't sleep at night knowing Cumulus has laid off so many people and he must cut ties with the company and work more closely with Clear Channel?  The cover story is amusing. And the charade worked on the Hannity <a href="http://twitchy.com/2013/08/16/report-sean-hannity-fires-cumulus-media-matters-hardest-hit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">defenders</a> in the conservative press who dutifully<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/16/hannity-fires-cumulus/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">typed up</a> accounts about how the host had "fired" Cumulus. (Just like Limbaugh was going to '<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/rush-limbaugh-may-leave-cumulus-163282.html?hp=r1" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fire</a>' Cumulus in May, remember?) But that's not really how the radio business works.Exit question: Is Bill O'Reilly <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2011/10/05/hannity-a-little-surprised-by-reports-oreilly-h/183412" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">enjoying</a> this run of Hannity bad news?House Clean Energy and Security Act, SHanity said util bill upo 3K and lose 2.5 mil jobs.  3k from MIT study that some of its own authors walked back from  170. CBO said $80 to 175/family =fox effect; Hannity lost UCSB radio gig after promoting book that said AIDS came from kiss or mosquito [why?]hume quit (b/c he's a jrnlist), replaced by sammon (several 4 fluff books on b2, as wll as Wa Times  1st book on how gore tried to steal electonLuntz advised hanity on health care vocab SH boosted Odonnell witch, Fiorina, Angle, said Reid supported viagra for pedophiles=<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cumulus Media is a radio chain that recently has organized pro-war rallies and banned the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks" class="extiw" title="w:Dixie Chicks" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Dixie Chicks</a> from its playlists, after Natalie Maines, lead singer for the Dixie Chicks, criticized <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Bush" class="extiw" title="w:President Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">President Bush</a> for the preemptive war on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" class="extiw" title="w:Iraq" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Iraq</a>.<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A CD-smashing rally was organized by KRMD, part of Cumulus Media, where a Louisiana crowd gathered to watch a large tractor crush a collection of Dixie Chicks CD's, tapes and related merchandise. Similar pro-war rallies are being promoted by giants in the radio industry -- with close links to the current administration and related causes.

See also <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clear_Channel_Communications" title="Clear Channel Communications" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Clear Channel Communications</a>.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ralph_B._Everett" title="Ralph B. Everett" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ralph B. Everett</a> - Board Member</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25KRUG.html" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25KRUG.html</a></li>

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<blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.

Cumulus has decided that it will not renew its contracts with either host, the source said, a move that would remove the two most highly rated conservative talk personalities from more than 40 Cumulus channels in major markets.

The decision comes after negotiations between Cumulus and Premiere Networks, the division of Clear Channel that distributes Limbaugh and Hannity's shows, broke down due to disagreements over the cost of the distribution rights, the source said. Cumulus is known to drive a hard bargain on costs, and Clear Channel is known to seek top dollar for big names.

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<a href="http://stoprush.net/rush_limbaugh_sponsor_list.php#current_a" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I wonder what might be the reason...</a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />

<blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 225); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Back in May, a source close to Limbaugh told POLITICO that the host was considering ending his affiliation agreement with Cumulus because CEO Lew Dickey was blaming the company's advertising losses on Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student. On an earnings call two days later, Dickey reported a $2.4 million first-quarter decline in revenue related to talk programming, which he attributed, indirectly, to Limbaugh's remarks about Fluke.</blockquote>

<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 14.4px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;">It looks like the boycotts had a sizable effect. I don't want to attribute this entirely to the StopRush campaign because there are other factors at work, like their listeners slowly dying out, but hey.

Ralph Everett "is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joint_Center_for_Political_and_Economic_Studies" title="Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies</a>, the nation’s premier African American think tank. Appointed to this position January 1, 2007...

"A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Mr. Everett is a 30-year veteran of the Washington policy scene. In 1982, after serving for several years as a legislative assistant to Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ernest_Hollings&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernest Hollings (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ernest Hollings</a>, he was appointed by Hollings to be the Democratic staff director and minority chief counsel of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. When Democrats won majority control of the Senate in 1986, Mr. Everett was named Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the full committee, where he played a significant role in cable, broadcast and common carrier legislation, as well as regulatory reform of the airline, truck, rail and bus industries.

"In 1989, Mr. Everett became the first African American partner at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul,Hastings,Janofsky_%26_Walker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker</a>, a leading international law firm with more than 1,100 attorneys in 18 offices throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. During his 17-year career at the firm, he was a specialist in telecommunications and transportation policy issues and served for a time as Managing Partner of the Washington office. He was also a member of the firm’s Policy Committee and Co-Chair of its Federal Legislative Practice Group.

"In 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Everett as U.S. Ambassador to the International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis. That year he also led the U.S. delegation to the ITU’s Second World Telecommunication Development Conference in Malta, where he was elected Vice Chairman of the conference attended by representatives from more than 190 nations.

"Over the years, Mr. Everett has been active in national and community affairs, including six years of service on the board of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Urban_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Urban League (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">National Urban League</a> and more than ten years on the board of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_National_Policy" title="Center for National Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Center for National Policy</a>, where he served as Secretary of the organization. He has served as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and as Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth of Virginia Waste Management Board. He is currently a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Economic_Club_of_Washington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Economic Club of Washington (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Economic Club of Washington</a>, the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Science Museum and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

"Mr. Everett currently serves on the boards of directors of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cumulus_Media" title="Cumulus Media" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Cumulus Media</a> Inc. and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shenandoah_Life_Insurance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shenandoah Life Insurance (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Shenandoah Life Insurance</a> Company. He is also a member of the Board of Visitors of Duke University Law School and has served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the historic Alfred Street Baptist Church, the oldest African American congregation in Alexandria, Virginia and one of the oldest Baptist Churches in the United States.

"Mr. Everett is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Phi_Beta_Kappa" title="Phi Beta Kappa" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Phi Beta Kappa</a> graduate of Morehouse College and has a juris doctor from Duke University Law School, where he was an Earl Warren Legal Scholar. He began his professional career as a lawyer in the North Carolina Department of Labor in Raleigh.

"Mr. Everett resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gwendolyn_Harris_Everett&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gwendolyn Harris Everett (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Gwendolyn Harris Everett</a>." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ralph_B._Everett#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>

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=Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas,Nevada" title="Las Vegas, Nevada" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Las Vegas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Nevada</a>-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States</a> and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country. Only <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHeartMedia" title="IHeartMedia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">iHeartMedia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_Media" title="Cumulus Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cumulus Media</a> owned more stations prior to Citadel's merger with Cumulus.On March 10, 2011, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_Media" title="Cumulus Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cumulus Media</a> announced that it would purchase Citadel Broadcasting. After receiving conditional regulatory approval from the Department of Justice and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Federal Communications Commission</a>, the deal was approved by Citadel shareholders on September 15, 2011. The merger of the two companies closed on September 16, 2011, and Citadel became an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Cumulus Media.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 History</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#Company_troubles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Company troubles</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#Acquisition_by_Cumulus_Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Acquisition by Cumulus Media</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#Employee_poaching_suit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Employee poaching suit</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#Becoming_environmentally_friendly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Becoming environmentally friendly</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#Notes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Notes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">History[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citadel_Broadcasting&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The company was founded in 1984 in Phoenix, Arizona by Larry Wilson as Citadel Associates Limited Partnership. In 1990 it was renamed Citadel Associates Montana Limited Partnership for the purpose of owning and operating stations in Montana that were formerly owned by CALP. A year later, Citadel Broadcasting was officially incorporated and in 1984 it acquired all of the radio stations owned by its predecessors. Within a decade, Citadel expanded to 26 states. Within that time period, it absorbed all Bloomington Broadcasting radio holdings and 11 stations from Dick Broadcasting Company and also acquired 3 radio stations from Slone Broadcasting, Inc. and Slone Radio, LLC. In 2001, Larry Wilson sold Citadel to private equity firm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forstmann_Little%26_Company" title="Forstmann Little & Company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Forstmann Little & Company</a> for $2.1 billion. By that time, the company had grown to 205 stations in 42 markets.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Citadel Broadcasting launched an online service called Citadel Interactive in 2005, and a year later launched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Now_Radio" title="Right Now Radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Right Now Radio</a>. By July 2007, more than 180 of their stations were streaming online.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]
After the merger, Citadel's ownership structure was:On February 6, 2006, Forstmann Little and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Walt Disney Company</a> agreed to merge Citadel with Disney's ABC Radio.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-wsj_citadel_abc-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> Shares representing 57% of Citadel were distributed to shareholders of The Walt Disney Company following the company's acquisition of 22 stations from ABC Radio.<ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">57%: Shareholders in The Walt Disney Company</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">27%: Forstmann Little</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">16%: Former Citadel shareholders exclusive of Forstmann Little or shareholders in Disney</li></ul>ABC owned and operated affiliates of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Disney" title="Radio Disney" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Radio Disney</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Radio" title="ESPN Radio" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ESPN Radio</a> were not included in the merger agreement.In order to comply with FCC ownership limitations, Citadel has sold off twelve of its radio stations. Ten of the stations' licenses have been transferred to a newly formed trust company, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Bastion_Station_Trust,LLC" title="The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC</a>. The two-station <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortland,New_York" title="Cortland, New York" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cortland, New York</a>, cluster was sold off prior to the merger in a separate transaction; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIII(FM)" title="WIII (FM)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WIII</a> was sold to Saga Communications and WKRT (now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYBY" title="WYBY" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WYBY</a>) has been given to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Broadcasting_Network" title="Bible Broadcasting Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bible Broadcasting Network</a> for free as a tax deductible donation.On June 19, 2008; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitron" title="Arbitron" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arbitron</a> expanded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Oklahoma City</a>'s market definition allowing Citadel to own 5 FM stations in the said area, at which time Citadel Broadcasting applied to re-acquire <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKWD" title="KKWD" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KKWD</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Bastion_Station_Trust,LLC" title="The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC</a> with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC). According to FCC documents, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKWD" title="KKWD" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KKWD</a> was re-absorbed into Citadel's station portfolio on July 9, 2009.On April 2, 2009; the staff of Citadel Broadcasting changed the name of "ABC Radio" to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Media" title="Citadel Media" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Citadel Media</a> to reflect on its ownership of the major network.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>In addition to Citadel Media, Citadel also owned the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Radio_Network" title="Arkansas Radio Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Arkansas Radio</a>, Tennessee Titans Radio, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bills_Radio_Network" title="Buffalo Bills Radio Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Buffalo Bills</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Talk_Network" title="Michigan Talk Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michigan Talk</a> radio networks.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Company troubles[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citadel_Broadcasting&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Company troubles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>On March 1, 2008, the former Disney/ABC Radio stations in Citadel's portfolio faced severe financial problems. That same day, hundreds of personalities were dismissed.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]On September 12, 2008; Citadel Broadcasting has received a notice from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">New York Stock Exchange</a> (NYSE) warning them that they will be facing a delisting after the company shares fell below the continuing listing criteria in the past 30 days.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> On February 27, 2009, the NYSE carried out that action. After an IPO of $20.67 in August 2003, and a high of $22.70 in December 2003, CDL closed at $0.01 on March 6, 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>Delisting happened on March 5, 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>Since the delisting, the staff of Citadel Broadcasting ceased holding conference calls and would no longer issue quarterly guidance. But the 10-Q filed May 7, 2010 at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</a>(SEC) indicated that Citadel expected to remain in compliance with lender covenants through 2009. Given the current conditions, it would be unlikely for the company to meet the benchmarks it had to hit in 2010, starting January 15 of that year. Citadel is carrying $2 billion in debt following the June 12, 2007 deal with Disney for the ABC Radio properties.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> Overall, Citadel's revenue fell almost 23%.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>In a quarterly SEC filing, the company disclosed the possibility of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11" title="Chapter 11" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chapter 11</a> bankruptcy. The company, in the filing, says that it "does not expect to meet its covenant requirements under the Senior Credit and Term Facility as of January 15, 2010." The Wall Street Journal reported that Citadel worked on a "prearranged" bankruptcy package in which lenders would get ownership of Citadel in exchange for forgiving about $2 billion of the company's $2.76 billion-dollar debt.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-mediapost.com-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> The filing began on December 20, 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>During that period, its Senior lenders took 90% of the equity, and the re-structuring approved by a Manhattan federal bankruptcy judge is now complete. The company’s debt was sliced by two-thirds from $2.14 billion to $762.5 million, and was poised to be an acquirer as well as an operator.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>On Dec. 11, 2009, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a> reported that Citadel planned to file for bankruptcy by the end of the month,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-mediapost.com-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> and Citadel filed for bankruptcy 9 days later.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> It emerged from bankruptcy in June 2010, owned by its lenders, the Dallas hedge fund R2 Investments, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">JPMorgan Chase</a> and the buyout firm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPG_Capital" title="TPG Capital" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TPG</a>.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Acquisition by Cumulus Media[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citadel_Broadcasting&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Acquisition by Cumulus Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Months after Citadel Broadcasting emerged from bankruptcy, it was approached by Atlanta-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus_Media" title="Cumulus Media" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cumulus Media</a> with two different, unsolicited merger offers, both of which Citadel turned down.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[13]</a> Then, in February 2011 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CNBC</a> reported Cumulus was in "exclusive negotiations" to acquire Citadel. This third offer would be worth $2.5 billion to Citadel shareholders, some of whom were said to have already been pushing the board to consider a sale.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>On March 10, 2011, Citadel Broadcasting announced via email that it had been purchased by Cumulus Media in a deal worth $1.7 billion. Pending approval from Citadel shareholders, it was expected that the deal would be finalized by the end of 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> Some of the Cumulus or Citadel radio stations would, however, have to be transferred into a trust to comply with the FCC's ownership limitations, especially in those markets where Citadel already had a "grandfathered" over-the-limit station group.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> Ultimately these included <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WELJ" title="WELJ" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WELJ</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk,New_York" title="Montauk, New York" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Montauk, New York</a>) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCAT-FM" title="WCAT-FM" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">WCAT-FM</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle,Pennsylvania" title="Carlisle, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Carlisle, Pennsylvania</a>), placed in a trust operated by Scott Knoblauch.Cumulus Media's purchase of Citadel became final on September 16, 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Employee poaching suit[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citadel_Broadcasting&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Employee poaching suit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In early 2007, Citadel Broadcasting filed a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit" title="Lawsuit" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lawsuit</a> against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peak_Broadcasting&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peak Broadcasting (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Peak Broadcasting</a>, claiming Peak raided its staff and secured company information. Peak operated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boise,Idaho" title="Boise, Idaho" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Boise, Idaho</a> market after purchasing six radio stations from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications" title="Clear Channel Communications" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Clear Channel Communications</a>. Citadel also owns six stations in Boise. The suit claimed that one of the former Citadel employees stole a computer disk with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidentiality" title="Confidentiality" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">critical information</a> after asking the Citadel IT person to help him copy information, which Peak then used to compete against Citadel in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno,California" title="Fresno, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fresno, California</a>, as well. Peak has denied the allegations, but the two parties reached a confidential settlement, which included an undisclosed payment to Citadel, according to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Statesman" title="Idaho Statesman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Idaho Statesman</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Becoming environmentally friendly[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citadel_Broadcasting&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Becoming environmentally friendly" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>On April 16, 2008, Citadel Broadcasting became the first organization-wide radio company to join the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Environmental Protection Agency</a>'s "Green Power Partnership Program" and committed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">US$</a>1 million in Educational Green <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_service_announcement" title="Public service announcement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">public service announcements</a>. In April 2008, ABC/Citadel's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGO(AM)" title="KGO (AM)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KGO-AM</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,California" title="San Francisco, California" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">San Francisco, California</a> was installing equipment for broadcasing with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power" title="Solar power" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">solar power</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime(astronomy)" title="Daytime (astronomy)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">daytime</a> hours.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a> The maximum rated output of the solar cells installed at the KGO transmitter site is a little over 7 kW, which under ideal conditions is about 15% of the 50 kW of energy radiated by the station's transmitter during daytime hours.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://guntherportfolio.blogspot.com/2008/05/kgo-radio-solar-project-update-solfocus.html" style="text-decoration: none; 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Radioequalizer.blogspot.com. 2009-03-05. Retrieved 2013-11-01.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.btitle=The+Radio+Equalizer%3A+Brian+Maloney%3A+ABC+Radio+Owner+Citadel+Communications+Shares+Worth+One+Penny&rft.date=2009-03-05&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fradioequalizer.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fabc-radio-owner-citadel-communications.html&rft.pub=Radioequalizer.blogspot.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1174527/000119312509169485/d10q.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Form 10-Q</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_%26_Exchange_Commission" title="Securities & Exchange Commission" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Securities & Exchange Commission</a> (released June 30, 2009)</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.radio-info.com/news/citadel-revenue-falls-23-in-the-latest-quarter-management-shows-concern-abo" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Citadel revenue falls 23% in the latest quarter, management shows concern about 2010"</a>. Radio-Info.com. May 8, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2011.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.atitle=Citadel+revenue+falls+23%25+in+the+latest+quarter%2C+management+shows+concern+about+2010&rft.date=May+8%2C+2009&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radio-info.com%2Fnews%2Fcitadel-revenue-falls-23-in-the-latest-quarter-management-shows-concern-abo&rft.jtitle=Radio-Info.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-mediapost.com-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-mediapost.com_9-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-mediapost.com_9-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=118948" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=118948</a>. Retrieved 2013-11-01.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediapost.com%2Fpublications%2F%3Ffa%3DArticles.showArticle%26art_aid%3D118948&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988">Missing or empty <code style="border: inherit; border-radius: 2px; padding: inherit; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">|title=</code> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#citation_missing_title" title="Help:CS1 errors" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">help</a>)[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">dead link</a>]</li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2009/12/21/the-daily-docket-citadel-files-for-chapter-11/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">The Daily Docket: Citadel Files For Chapter 11</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a> (released December 21, 2009)</li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.radio-info.com/news/citadel-emerges-from-chapter-11" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Citadel emerges from Chapter 11</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://radio-info.com/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Radio-Info.com</a> (released June 3, 2010)</li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/business/media/21citadel.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Citadel Broadcasting Files for Bankruptcy"</a>. The New York Times. December 21, 2009.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.atitle=Citadel+Broadcasting+Files+for+Bankruptcy&rft.date=December+21%2C+2009&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F12%2F21%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2F21citadel.html&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.radio-info.com/news/citadel-says-no-to-two-merger-offers-from-cumulus" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Citadel says "No" to two merger offers from Cumulus"</a>. Radio-Info.com. December 6, 2010. RetrievedMay 27, 2011.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.atitle=Citadel+says+%22No%22+to+two+merger+offers+from+Cumulus&rft.date=December+6%2C+2010&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radio-info.com%2Fnews%2Fcitadel-says-no-to-two-merger-offers-from-cumulus&rft.jtitle=Radio-Info.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.radio-info.com/news/citadel-confirms-exclusive-negotiations-with-cumulus-but-says-no-deal-yet" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Citadel confirms "exclusive negotiations" with Cumulus – but says "no deal yet""</a>. Radio-Info.com. February 17, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2011.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.atitle=Citadel+confirms+%22exclusive+negotiations%22+with+Cumulus+%E2%80%93+but+says+%22no+deal+yet%22&rft.date=February+17%2C+2011&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radio-info.com%2Fnews%2Fcitadel-confirms-exclusive-negotiations-with-cumulus-but-says-no-deal-yet&rft.jtitle=Radio-Info.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2011/03/10/cumulus_to_buy_radio_rival_citadel_broadcasting/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Radio deal: Cumulus to buy Citadel Broadcasting"</a>. Retrieved 2013-11-01.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACitadel+Broadcasting&rft.btitle=Radio+deal%3A+Cumulus+to+buy+Citadel+Broadcasting&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fae%2Fmedia%2Farticles%2F2011%2F03%2F10%2Fcumulus_to_buy_radio_rival_citadel_broadcasting%2F&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">dead link</a>]</li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Broadcasting#cite_ref-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.radio-info.com/news/cumulus-will-be-digesting-citadel-fast-once-it-takes-over-in-late-q3" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Cumulus will be digesting Citadel fast, once it takes over in late Q3"</a>. Radio-Info.com. 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