"I reached out and spoke with several current and former Audacy employees with ties to the brand and the market. The lone question I asked all was, “Who should replace Dan Bernstein?”
Do we fully appreciate the value of what we do as an art form? Do we encourage and empower talent to create something that our advertisers can easily see has true value?
What nobody generally talks about in these situations are the salespeople who have to pick up a lot of the pieces with the advertisers left behind by the host.
Much like the expected demise of radio in the ‘50s after television took off, the business is not dead yet, but there are plenty of competitors who would gladly help kill it off.
"When high profile people are accessible anytime of the day by the entire world, they're going to hear a lot of noise. Sometimes those tweets are designed to generate a negative reaction, and our industry's most passionate people can't always look away."