iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon and welcome to iHeartMedia's Q2 2025 earnings call. All participants are now listen-only mode. After the speaker's remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. To ask a question at this time, you'll need to press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Mike McGinnis, Head of Investor Relations. Thank you. Please go ahead. Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for taking the time to join us for our second quarter 2025 earnings call. Joining me for today's discussion are Bob Pittman, our Chairman and CEO, and Rick Bressler, our President, COO, and CFO. At the conclusion of our prepared remarks, management will take your questions. In addition to our press release, we have an earnings presentation available on our website that you can use to follow along with our remarks. Please note that this call may include forward-looking statements regarding our financial performance and operating results. These statements are based on management's current expectations, and actual results could differ from what is stated as a result of certain factors identified on today's call and the company's SEC filings, including our recent AK filing. Additionally, during this call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are included in our earnings release, earnings presentation, and our SEC filings, which are available in the investor relations section of our website. And now I'll turn the call over to Bob. Thanks, Mike, and good afternoon, everyone. Our second quarter performance was solid and slightly ahead of our initial expectations as we continued to execute on key initiat...