iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT)
Radio stations, podcasts and digital audio, 22% part-time. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 6 of the 28 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
31%
End of 2028
63%
Employees, annual report
9,550
Leading staffing pattern
Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now31%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202863%
- End of 203065%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 35%
- Becomes checking a model's work 50%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
iHeartMedia states approximately 9,550 employees at December 31, 2025, 78% full-time and 22% part-time, with about 7.3% of its U.S. workforce under collective bargaining agreements, across broadcast radio (45% of revenue), digital and podcast (30%), networks and services with no count by segment, so the stations take most of the workforce and the digital and podcast businesses the rest by description (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 31% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 63% at the end of 2028, 65% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 65% desk work, 22% people work and 13% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 35% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 50% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,550 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes U.S. radio stations and refers to its U.S. workforce; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “Workforce Composition As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 9,550 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations | 75% | The broadcast radio stations (45% of revenue), networks (11%) and sponsorship and events, staffed with programming, on-air, sales and engineering people, take most of the workforce by description (c), the filing counting no employees by segment. |
| Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers | 25% | The digital audio and podcast businesses (30% of revenue), counted by no employee figure, take a share by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 78% full-time and 22% part-time employees; about 7.3% of the U.S. workforce under collective bargaining agreements across numerous units; the count fell from 11,000 in 2022.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST, 12,832 employees)32% now, 62% by 2028
- Fox Corporation (FOXA, 10,550 employees)30% now, 64% by 2028
- Gray Media, Inc. (GTN, 9,582 employees)33% now, 62% by 2028
- Sinclair, Inc. (SBGI, 7,100 employees)33% now, 62% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it uses AI in its business, with AI solutions increasingly integrated into operations and expected to become more important over time, and names the risks of managing that use.
- “Certain factors that could adversely affect our financial performance by, among other things, decreasing overall revenues, the numbers of advertising customers, advertising fees or profit margins, include: unfavorable fluctuations in operating costs, which we may be unwilling or unable to pass through to our customers; our inability to successfully adopt or our being late in adopting technologi...”
- “We use artificial intelligence ("AI") in our business, and challenges in managing its use could result in reputational harm, competitive disadvantage, legal liability, and adverse effects on our results of operations.”
- “AI solutions are increasingly integrated into our business operations and are expected to become even more important to our operations over time.”
- “Our competitors or other third parties may adopt AI more quickly or more effectively than we do, which could impair our ability to compete and negatively impact our results of operations.”
- “Additionally, if our AI-generated content, analyses, search results, or recommendations are, or are alleged to be, inaccurate, biased, infringing, harmful, or otherwise deficient, our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20238median 1
- Fiscal 202412median 4
- Fiscal 202512median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 9,550 | 2026-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 10,100 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 10,800 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 11,000 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 10,800 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 10,200 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 11,400 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 14,000 | 2019-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 13,600 | 2018-05-03 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 14,300 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 14,400 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 14,500 | 2015-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 15,100 | 2014-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 15,000 | 2013-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 15,400 | 2012-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 15,036 | 2011-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 14,980 | 2010-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 16,800 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the split between the stations and the digital businesses is by description (c); the data service's segment table is for fiscal 2024.
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's description, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-013221, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of iHeartMedia, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 31% now and 63% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce iHeartMedia, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does iHeartMedia, Inc. employ?
- 9,550 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up iHeartMedia, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations; by those patterns the work is about 65% desk work, 22% people work and 13% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does iHeartMedia, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 12 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 8, 12 and 12 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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