During his Countdown With Keith Olbermann podcast Thursday, the eponymous host took a shot at Audacy for several errors the company has made during commercials produced by the broadcaster for their audio streams, saying it was evident “someone in quality control took the month off”.
“First, it was a spot that announced the Audacy Baseball Player of the Week that ran during audio streams of Major League games — like 40 million times in one week — saluting Chicago White Sox pitcher Johnny Q-toe. Mispronounced his name like that three times in 30 seconds. Q-toe. Its Cueto. C-U-E-T-O. He has been a major league pitcher since 2008. It has always been Cueto. That spot has been, mercifully, retired.”
Olbermann then went on to say the same issue persists in a different commercial for Audacy.
“Now some Audacy music news spot is running — like 40 million times all day everywhere — while reporting the remix of The Beatles album by the producer son of the legendary producer George Martin, Giles Martin, his son. Except Audacy has called him Gills. Gills Martin. Maybe he’s half fish?”, Olbermann said while suppressing laughter.
Audacy, which is facing delisting by the New York Stock Exchange if it cannot raise its stock price to more than $1 per share in the next 6 months, refuted claims earlier this week that it will enter bankruptcy.
