Audacy Restructures Management By Formats

Audacy CEO Kelli Turner has announced a major company-wide restructuring, shifting from a traditional market-by-market model to a content-first organization built around national format verticals, while also consolidating regional leadership into larger groups to boost agility and growth in the digital audio era.

The most significant change moves programming, content, and brand management teams away from geography-based silos and aligns them by format—such as news, sports, country, alternative, and others. The goal is to better leverage Audacy's national scale, share resources and best practices across stations, deepen format expertise, and free local market leaders to focus more on revenue generation.

Kelli Turner

"For decades, radio has been organized by market geography," Turner wrote in a memo to staff. "This legacy model doesn't best serve our business in today's digital, multi-market landscape, or leverage the extraordinary talent and scale we have within our formats."

The programming and content realignment takes effect immediately.

To lead the new content structure, Chief Business Officer and New York Market President Chris Oliviero will oversee Programming, Podcast, and Product, reporting directly to Turner. 

Reporting to Oliviero are:

• Leah Reis-Dennis (podcast strategy)
• John Pacino (product)
• Jeff Sottolano (programming, in collaboration with central team and format VPs)

Brand Managers now report directly to their respective Format Vice Presidents.

On the revenue side, Chief Revenue Officer Bob Philips and EVP of Revenue Operations Liz Mozian will now report directly to Turner to ensure sales strategies evolve in lockstep with the content changes.

The restructuring also includes regional leadership changes following Brian Purdy's transition from Regional President to Senior Advisor. Markets previously under Purdy have been redistributed into three larger regions:

• West led by Jeff Federman: Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle
• East and Central led by Mark Hannon: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Hartford, Houston, Kansas City, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence, Richmond, Rochester, Springfield, St. Louis, Washington, DC, Wichita, Wilkes-Barre
• Southeast led by Claudia Menegus: Chattanooga, Gainesville, Greensboro, Greenville, Memphis, Miami, New Orleans, Orlando

Turner described the dual moves—content verticals and larger regional groups—as key steps toward building a more agile, dynamic, and future-focused company while continuing to prioritize local radio."Local radio remains a lifeblood, and this helps make us even stronger and better as the business evolves," she wrote.