David Field
David Field is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Audacy. Audacy is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with a leadership position in virtually every segment of the dynamic and growing audio business—including broadcasting, podcasting, digital, network, live events, music, sports and news. Audacy is also the number one creator of original, premium audio content, engaging over 200 million consumers each month.
Field has served as Audacy’s (then Entercom) CEO since 2002 and its President since 1998. Under his leadership, the company has evolved from 15 stations with $35 million in revenues to a multiplatform audio business with $1.3 billion in revenues, 221 stations across 45 markets, one of the country’s largest podcast publishers, and a rapidly growing digital platform for consumers to connect live and on demand with their favorite audio content.
Prior to joining Audacy, Field was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York.
Field also serves on the boards of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the National Constitution Center and The Wilderness Society. He is a former chairman of the NAB Radio Board and a former trustee of the Philadelphia Zoo and the Ad Council.
Field has received numerous civic and professional awards, including the National Association of Broadcasters’ National Radio Award in 2017. He is a three-time recipient of Institutional Investor Magazine’s “Best CEOs in America” and a two-time recipient of Radio Ink Magazine’s Radio Executive of the Year Award. In 2017, he was honored as a “Giant in Broadcasting” by the International Radio & Television Society. Field was named to Billboard’s “Power 100” list in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Field earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Amherst College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.