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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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

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#### IHEARTMEDIA, INC.
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### LETTER FROM OUR INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS
April 1, 2025

Dear Fellow Stockholders:

2024 was a year of significant strategic importance for iHeartMedia, Inc. (the "Company"). Our senior management team successfully executed on initiatives critical to the Company’s long-term success, with a key focus on our capital structure, including deleveraging. Our Board played an important role in providing oversight of management and stewardship of the Company’s strategic initiatives. We continue to transform and modernize our operations and expand our industry leading position in content and distribution across broadcast radio, streaming digital radio, podcasts, social, live events, influencers and personalities, as well as best-in-class total audio advertising technology and data solutions for all forms of audio. Through it all, we have appreciated the ongoing dialogue that we have with our stockholders on the broad range of topics relevant to our business and look forward to