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In part four of our series on the future of radio, broker Ed Henson checks in to give us his thoughts on where radio is headed following the emergence of cleaner balance sheets from iHeart and Cumulus. And he says there are many more great companies out there that we could be focusing on.

That's never really been the philosophy of the only CEO Saga has ever had, Ed Christian. He's always been slow and steady at growing his company. Broker Michael Bergner has a different take on the future of the company in part three in our series on the future of radio.

In part two of our week-long series on the future of radio, we turn to MVP Capital Managing Director Elliot Evers to get his thoughts on where the radio industry is headed now that Cumulus is over the bankruptcy hurdle and iHeart is about to cross the finish line.

Back in August the CEO's of 10 radio companies penned a letter supporting more deregulation. Not every station or group owner is in favor of more deregulation, most notably iHeartMedia.

(By John Garziglia) With a further relaxation of radio ownership rules, an existing local broadcaster will be put into the position of either being bought out by a large radio group, or watching as its competition is bought out and then competing against a national group that owns all of the other radio stations in the market. Unfettered ownership may help large radio groups compete with Google and Facebook, but to the extent smaller broadcasters do not sell out, it will decimate them.

(By Ed Levine, Paul Stone, and George Reed) Much has been written in the radio trades over the last week regarding the NAB Radio Board vote in favor of recommending to the FCC an update of its radio ownership rules. We'd like to give you our take.

(by Jeff Warshaw) Let’s not just dream about the “good old days," when AM stations were king and listeners had fewer choices. The industry needs to be free to grow within every market so that we can more fairly compete in a modern world. Let me explain...

Ron Stone is the CEO of Adams Radio Group. On Friday we interviewed Stone as part of our CEO series on deregulation and whether there should be more deregulation for radio. He's opposed. Our interview with Ron resulted in a lot of reader feedback. In case you missed it Friday here's that interview again.