{"id":1931,"date":"2014-01-03T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T22:48:03","slug":"take-a-bow-randy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/01\/03\/take-a-bow-randy\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a bow, Randy: Merlin's vanishing act"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Randy<\/a>

<\/a> Randy Michaels (standing, right)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe end may be nearer than you think for Merlin Media. GTCR, the private equity firm that partnered with CEO Randy Michaels to form the company in July 2011, is actively seeking buyers for all of Merlin Media\u2019s properties, including adult hits WIQI FM 101.1 and classic rock WLUP FM 97.9 here.\u201d \u2014 Robert Feder, Time Out Chicago, Sept. 25, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMerlin is not for sale.\u201d \u2014 Randy Michaels, Radio Business Report, Sept. 26, 2012<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

News item: \u201cMerlin sells WRXP\/New York to CBS.\u201d \u2014 AllAccess.com, Oct. 8, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMerlin is not for sale, and is looking at possible additions to our portfolio. Let\u2019s focus building the Chicago and Philadelphia stations into great, profitable brands and great places to work.\" \u2014 Randy Michaels, FMQB, Oct. 8, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

News item: \u201cConfirmed: Merlin Media has sold talk WWIQ FM 106.9\/Philadelphia to Educational Media Foundation.\u201d \u2014 AllAccess.com, Aug. 7, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

News item: \u201cCumulus buys Merlin\u2019s Chicago stations: Sale of the two Merlin stations essentially closes another chapter in the saga of Randy Michaels, who launched the company in 2011 after his exit as CEO of Tribune Co.\u201d \u2014 RobertFeder.com, Jan. 3, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Feder says Merlin\u2019s money people, GTCR, are \u2018actively seeking buyers,\u2019 I\u2019m thinking I might believe a man who has been correct in his reporting for an entire career compared to a bloviating ex-swashbuckling radio dude.\u201d \u2014 Jerry Del Colliano, Inside Music Media<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe end may be nearer than you think for Merlin Media. GTCR, the private equity firm that partnered with CEO Randy Michaels to form the company in July 2011, is actively seeking buyers for all of Merlin Media\u2019s properties, including adult hits WIQI FM 101.1 and classic rock WLUP FM 97.9 here.\u201d \u2014 Robert Feder,... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}