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                                                                 Exhibit 23.1







                          INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT

The Board of Directors
Citadel Broadcasting Company:

We consent to incorporation by reference in the registration statement (No.
333-92593) on Form S-3 of Citadel Communications Corporation, Citadel
Broadcasting Company, CCC Capital Trust I and CCC Capital Trust II of our report
dated March 10, 2000, relating to the combined balance sheet of Dick
Broadcasting Company, Inc. of Tennessee and subsidiaries, Dick Broadcasting
Company, Inc. of Nashville and Dick Radio Alabama, Inc. as of December 31, 1999
and the related combined statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash
flows for the year then ended, which report appears in Form 8-K of Citadel
Broadcasting Company dated October 2, 2000, and to all references to our firm
included in the referenced registration statement.

/s/ Hines and Company, P.C.
Hines and Company, P.C.

Knoxville, Tennessee
October 17, 2000