---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-017100"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PODC"
cik: "0001940177"
company_name: "PodcastOne, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T05:00:23.128024+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PodcastOne promotes Ryan Carhart to CFO; cost savings target $23M+

## Summary
- Ryan Carhart named CFO of PodcastOne, LiveOne, and subsidiaries effective Feb 19, 2025.
- Cost savings expanded to over $23M including $13M in additional reductions at CPS.
- LiveOne paid $3.7M to East West Bank on a $7M loan; secured LOI to refinance remaining debt.
- Former CFO Aaron Sullivan departed to pursue another opportunity, no dispute.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-017100
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PODC
- cik: 0001940177
- company_name: PodcastOne, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1940177/000121390025017100/0001213900-25-017100-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1940177/000121390025017100/ea0232055-8k_podcast.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-017100.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Aaron Sullivan resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at PodcastOne, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
  source text: Mr. Sullivan’s departure was not as a result of any dispute with the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1940177/000121390025017100/0001213900-25-017100-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ryan Carhart was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at PodcastOne, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective as of February 19, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), PodcastOne, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Ryan Carhart, the Company’s current Vice President and Controller, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, to succeed Aaron Sullivan
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1940177/000121390025017100/0001213900-25-017100-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.