I”m not saying that CC always made good choices, but for years their model was to make money off of Rush’s show on other stations and to make money on their music etc on their own stations. They wanted to make money off almost every station in the market.
Sometimes their strategy was too cute by half - and they made some mistakes. In any case, the dying music format on many CC stations is causing them to turn many of their FM’s into talk stations featuring Rush - so they are yanking the Rush show off of AM stations in the market they were selling that show to.
The Corporate Cr@p formula of generic imitation vanilla in each of their segmented music markets helped kill them off (along with personal device technology...).