Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAfter more than 50 years as Entercom Communications, the radio and podcasting company is unfurling a new banner: Effective immediately, it is changing its name to Audacy.With the rebranding, the company also will retire the Radio.com name and the direct-to-consumer platform will adopt the Audacy moniker.
The company’s new website is audacyinc.com.“The name Entercom no longer fit. We’ve outgrown it,” David Field, chairman, president and CEO, said in an interview.
At a high level, he said, the company needed “consistency across B2B [business-to-business] and B2C [business-to-consumer]” domains in its corporate identify.The new name is redolent of “audio” and “audacity,” and, of course, its homonym “odyssey.”.
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