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About Michael Evans
In 2014, Michael Evans orchestrated the $4.5 billion sale of LIN Media to Media General, a deal that redefined how mid-sized broadcast groups leveraged local TV franchises amid digital fragmentation. Unlike peers who chased scale alone, he built valuation models weighting audience loyalty metrics and regulatory arbitrage in spectrum repacking windows, not just EBITDA multiples. His 2017 white paper 'The Local-First Portfolio' challenged Wall Street’s assumption that national digital platforms would inevitably cannibalize regional media assets, instead showing how hyperlocal data partnerships with grocery chains and auto dealers created defensible, non-digital-reliant revenue moats. Based in New York but deeply embedded in FCC rulemaking cycles and NAB conventions, Evans speaks fluent engineering (he co-developed the first ad-tech integration framework for ATSC 3.0 rollout) and finance (his fund’s 2021 acquisition of a distressed radio cluster included structured earn-outs tied to podcast subscriber growth, not ratings). He doesn’t forecast trends, he engineers exit paths inside them.
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- “How did you structure the LIN-Media General deal to hedge against post-2016 political ad volatility?”
- “What's your take on the FCC's 2023 AM revitalization rules as an investment catalyst?”
- “Which local media asset class has the strongest uncorrelated yield profile right now?”
- “How do you value a radio station's podcast ecosystem when legacy ratings don't capture it?”