Talk:Townsquare Media
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REQUEST EDIT/UPDATE
editREQUEST EDIT/UPDATE
The Townsquare Media page is extremely outdated, including but not limited to the use of the logo (which has not been used since 2012). Please find link to the correct logo (https://www.dropbox.com/s/uticnfr3vcc0z3w/TSMG%20logo%20copy.jpg) as well as factual updates below. That said, would it be possible to update said page so it more accurately reflects the company? Any assistance in making these requested change would be greatly appreciated. All information is verifiable and does not contain any weasel words.
Please see below:
Townsquare Media Group is an American media, entertainment and digital marketing services company, based in Greenwich, Connecticut that owns and operates radio stations, digital properties and live events serving small and mid-sized markets throughout the United States. [1] [1]
Townsquare Media Group operates the following businesses:
Townsquare Radio - The Company is the third largest owner of radio stations in the United States, based on the number of radio stations owned, with 241 radio stations and companion websites in 51 markets. The Company also operates growing digital and live events properties, which include more than 250 local websites in the markets where the Company owns radio stations and more than 500 live events yearly. The live events include concerts, fairs, expos, lifestyle events and music festivals including, Taste of Country Music Festival, Mountain Jam and Tropical Nights Destination Series. [2][2]
Townsquare Media - The Company owns 17 music & entertainment focused websites – including, Taste of Country, Ultimate Classic Rock and PopCrush and represents >150 websites. As of August 2013, the digital footprint accounted for 50 million+ unique visitors monthly. [3] [4][3]
Townsquare Interactive – The Company’s digital marketing services arm services local businesses online by providing websites, SEO, listing services, reputation management and social presence on a subscription basis. [5][4]
History:
Townsquare Media Group (formerly Regent Communications Inc. until 2010) was formed when Regent emerged from Chapter 11 protection on April 27, 2010. Oaktree Capital Management became the majority owner of Regent after the bankruptcy. [6][5]
At the time, Oaktree Capital Management owned the radio group GAP Broadcasting.[citation needed] On August 13, 2010, Townsquare, acquired GAP and its 111 stations in 23 markets. The combination gave Townsquare ownership of 171 radio stations in 36 markets.[7][6]
On December 13, 2010, Townsquare launched a new country music news website called Taste of Country which is now the largest country music website as measured by Unique Visitors.[8] [7]
Townsquare acquired Millennium in August 2011 and Double O Radio in February 2012 adding 11 and 26 stations, respectively.
On April 30, 2012 Townsquare Media announced a deal to acquire 55 stations in 11 markets from Cumulus Media, in exchange for Townsquare's stations in the markets of Bloomington and Peoria, IL and $116 million in cash.[9][8]
On August 24, 2012, Townsquare reached a deal to acquire the MOG Music Network, an advertising network for music and entertainment blogs, from MOG, a streaming music service that had reached a deal to be acquired by headphone maker Beats Electronics.[10] [9] The MOG Music Network was relaunched as Townsquare Media, a national digital business, with >150 sites that account for 50 million+ unique visitors monthly. [11][10]
On August 29, 2013, it was announced by The Wall Street Journal that Cumulus will be purchasing Dial Global, after the network service was showing signs of financial distress in late 2012. Cumulus will be paying $260 Million in cash for this programming syndication service, part of which will be used to pay off Dial’s debt before it is folded into Cumulus Media Networks. To fund the acquisition, Cumulus will sell stations to Townsquare Media in two deals: the first deal will send 53 stations in Danbury, CT, Rockford, IL, Cedar Rapids, IA, Quad Cities IA/IL, Waterloo, IA, Portland, ME, Battle Creek, MI, Kalamazoo, MI, Lansing, MI, Faribault, MN, Rochester, MN, and Portsmouth, NH to Townsquare for $238 Million. The second will send 15 more stations in Dubuque, IA and Poughkeepsie, NY stations in exchange for Peak Broadcasting’s Fresno cluster. While not mentioned by the Journal, Peak, will have its Boise cluster folded into Townsquare as well. Townsquare, however, will have to place three of its newly acquired stations in a divestiture trust due to market overlaps.[12] Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Leadership:
Currently, the Townsquare Media management team includes [13][11]:
• Steven Price, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
• Stuart Rosenstein, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
• Bill Wilson, Executive Vice President and Chief Content & Digital Officer
• Alex Berkett, Executive Vice President, Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions
• Erik Hellum, Executive Vice President
• Dhruv Prasad, Executive Vice President, Live Events
173.251.62.74 (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2014 (UTC)Carolyn Shea
In addition, that list of stations, which is terribly incomplete and aside from the stations in New Jersey and Texas, only includes the stations purchased from Cumulus Media, needs to go. Murge it into the list of stations owned by Townsquare Media and link that article to this one. Also, about that article, see the note I left on that talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobdavcav (talk • contribs) 21:34, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
References for this REQUEST EDIT/UPDATE section only
editAdded this subsection and Template:Reflist so that the refs would stop appearing at the end of the page, which implied they applied to the entire Talk page or the ending section. —Geekdiva (talk) 08:27, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com; ComScore, MultiPlatform, December 2013
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com/press
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com/press
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com/press
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com/press
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com/press; "Remaining half of Mog Music Network sells to Townsquare Media Group". MusicWeek. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com; ComScore, MultiPlatform, December 2013
- ^ www.townsquaremediagroup.com; ComScore, MultiPlatform, December 2013
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editTo editor 23W: It looks like you made substantial changes to this article, so I thought I'd ping you about the contradiction that I see in the two headers that mention years as compared to the body text's discussion of events. Thanks! BTW, my real life limitations probably won't let me find my way back here, so sorry all I can do is point this stuff out. —Geekdiva (talk) 09:03, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
The section header "===As Townsquare (since 2013)===" contradicts the body text in its section. What was the company named from late 2010 through 2013, since it did function during those years? Should "(since 2013)" be changed to "(since late 2010)"?
Also, this article's class should be reassessed, as I think it's good enough for Start class. If not, then stub templates need to be added to the article itself. Perhaps Wikipedia:WikiProject United States or Wikipedia:WikiProject Ohio could help. Is there someone from Wikipedia:WikiProject Telecommunications or Wikipedia:WikiProject Business who could assess the article from their areas of expertise? Thanks very much!—Geekdiva (talk) 06:58, 16 September 2016 (UTC)