Ownership Submission
FORM 4
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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(Print or Type Responses)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
ABBOT JOHN
  2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
CUMULUS MEDIA INC [CMLS]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
_____ Director _____ 10% Owner
__X__ Officer (give title below) _____ Other (specify below)
Chief Financial Officer
(Last)
(First)
(Middle)
C/O CUMULUS MEDIA INC., 3280 PEACHTREE ROAD, NW SUITE 2300
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
06/30/2017
(Street)

ATLANTA, GA 30305
4. If Amendment, Date Original Filed(Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing(Check Applicable Line)
_X_ Form filed by One Reporting Person
___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
(City)
(State)
(Zip)
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1.Title of Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4 and 5)
5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 3 and 4)
6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price

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Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4, and 5)
6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date
(Month/Day/Year)
7. Title and Amount of Underlying Securities
(Instr. 3 and 4)
8. Price of Derivative Security
(Instr. 5)
9. Number of Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 4)
10. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Employee Stock Option $ 9.28 (1) (2) 06/30/2017   D     187,500 (1)   (3)(4) 07/01/2026 Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value 187,500 (1) $ 3.13 (5) 0 D  

Reporting Owners

Reporting Owner Name / Address Relationships
 Director  10% Owner  Officer  Other
ABBOT JOHN
C/O CUMULUS MEDIA INC.
3280 PEACHTREE ROAD, NW SUITE 2300
ATLANTA, GA 30305
      Chief Financial Officer  

Signatures

 /s/ John Abbot   07/06/2017
**Signature of Reporting Person Date

Explanation of Responses:

* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
(1) Previously reported exercise prices and number of stock options have been proportionally adjusted to give effect to the Cumulus Media Inc. (the "Company") October 12, 2016 one-for-eight (1:8) reverse stock split.
(2) 93,750 of the options were exercisable at a price of $2.56 per share, and 31,250 of such options were exercisable at each of $8.00, $16.00, and $24.00 per share, respectively.
(3) Option consisted of time and performance based components.
(4) Of the time based component, the option to purchase 28,125 shares was vested and exercisable, and the remainder of such component would have vested and become exercisable as follows: 28,125 shares on 7/1/18, and 18,750 shares on each of 7/1/19 and 7/1/2020. The performance based component was divided into three equal performance tranches (31,250 shares per tranche). Each tranche vested, or would have vested, as applicable, pro rata on each of the first four anniversaries of 7/1/16, with 30% of the respective tranche on each of the first two anniversaries, and 20% of the respective tranche on each of the next two anniversaries. The tranches would have become exercisable if following vesting the volume-weighted average closing sales price of the Company's Class A Common Stock for each 30 consecutive trading days ending with the date of determination was $8.00, $16.00, and $24.00, respectively.
(5) As previously disclosed by the Company, on May 18, 2017, the Board of Directors of the Company approved and adopted a supplemental incentive plan for 2017 (the "SIP") for key members of senior management. In order to be eligible participants had to agree to the cancellation of all of their outstanding equity awards. The price is derived from the previously disclosed target bonus amount as stipulated in the SIP, divided by the number of options canceled.

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