Company: IHETW
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001400891-25-000022
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Company: iHeartMedia, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: DEF 14A
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% of the Company’s outstanding Class A common stock. This engagement included participation in investor conferences, individual one-on-one meetings and correspondence with stockholders in which we have discussed our financial performance, strategy, corporate governance, Corporate Responsibility practices and executive compensation program. This feedback provides the Company with important insights, which management shares with the Board, and the Company is committed to ongoing engagement with its investors on all appropriate matters, including executive compensation and governance.

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#### Self-Evaluation
Our Board conducts an annual self-evaluation process to determine whether the Board, its committees and the directors are functioning effectively. This includes survey materials and a report to, and discussion of survey results with, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, as well as each committee and the full Board’s respective results. The survey materials solicit feedback on board composition, board process and function, board responsibilities and board committees. The directors use the results to identify trends and themes and discuss potential action items in order to increase the effectiveness of the Board and its committees. Each committee also conducts its own annual self-evaluation to assess the functioning of the committee and the effectiveness of the committee members, including the committee chair. In addition, focus areas identified through the evaluation are incorporated into the Board’s agenda for the following year. All directors are free to make suggestions on improvement of the Board’s or the committees’ practices at any time and are encouraged to do so.

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#### Board Leadership Structure
The Company’s current Board leadership structure comprises a combined Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, an independent director serving as the Lead Independent Director, and five other highly qualified, active independent directors. Our Board exercises its judgment in combining or separating the roles of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer as it deems appropriate in light of current circumstances. The Board will continue to exercise its judgment on an ongoing basis to determine the optimal Board leadership structure that it believes will provide effective leadership, oversight and direction, while optimizing the functioning of both the Board and management and facilitating effective communication between the two. The Board has concluded that the current structure provides a well-functioning and effective balance between strong Company leadership and appropriate safeguards and oversight by independent directors. A combined role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer confers advantages, including for the following reasons:

• Our Chief Executive Officer is more familiar with our business and strategy than a non-employee chairman and is able to draw on his detailed knowledge of the Company to provide the Board, in coordination with