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Exhibit 23.4
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT
The Board of Directors
Citadel Communications Corporation
We consent to incorporation by reference in the registration statement on Form
S-8 of Citadel Communications Corporation of our report dated March 24, 2000 on
the combined balance sheets of Broadcasting Partners Holdings Radio Group as of
December 31, 1998 and 1999 and the related combined statements of operations,
partners' capital and cash flows for the period from January 9, 1997 (inception)
through December 31, 1997 and for each of the years in the two-year period ended
December 31, 1999, which report appears in the Form 8-K of Citadel
Communications Corporation dated April 15, 2000. Our report refers to a change
in accounting for start-up costs.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Phoenix, Arizona
November 30, 2000
