As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 29, 2001
                                                  Registration No.  333-65279
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                     SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                           WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                    ___________________________________

                       POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1


                                     TO


                                  FORM S-8
                           REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                   UNDER
                         THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                    ___________________________________
                     CITADEL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
           (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

          NEVADA                                             86-0748219
(State or other jurisdiction of                           (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                          Identification Number)

                              CITY CENTER WEST
                       7201 WEST LAKE MEAD BOULEVARD
                                 SUITE 400
                             LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
                     (Address of registrant's principal
                             executive offices)

       CITADEL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 1996 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
   AND INDIVIDUAL STOCK OPTION AGREEMENTS WITH EMPLOYEES AND CONSULTANTS,
   EACH OF WHICH CONSTITUTES AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING
                    OF RULE 405 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
                          (Full title of the plan)

                             SANDRA J. HORBACH
                                 PRESIDENT
                         C/O FORSTMANN LITTLE & CO.
                       767 FIFTH AVENUE - 44th FLOOR
                          NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10153
                               (212) 355-5656
         (Name, address, and telephone number of agent for service)

                       RECENT EVENTS: DE-REGISTRATION

     The  Registration  Statement on Form S-8  (Registration  No. 33-65279)
(the "Registration  Statement") of Citadel  Communications  Corporation,  a
Nevada  corporation ("the Company"),  pertaining to the 3,045,948 shares of
common stock,  par value $.001 per share (the "Company Common Stock) of the
Company to which this Post-Effective  Amendment relates, was filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on October 2, 1998.

     On June 26, 2001 (the "Effective Time"), pursuant to the Agreement and
Plan of Merger (the  "Merger  Agreement"),  dated as of January  15,  2001,
among  FLCC  Holdings,  Inc.,  a  Delaware  corporation  ("HoldCo"),   FLCC
Acquisition  Corp., a Nevada  corporation and a wholly owned  subsidiary of
HoldCo  ("Acquisition  Co."),  and the  Company,  as amended  (the  "Merger
Agreement"),  Acquisition  Co. was merged  with and into the  Company  (the
"Merger"), with the Company as the surviving corporation.


     As a result of the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of
Company Common Stock pursuant to the Registration  Statement. In accordance
with an undertaking  made by the Company in the  Registration  Statement to
remove from registration by means of a post-effective  amendment any shares
of Company  Common  Stock which  remain  unsold at the  termination  of the
offering,  the  Company  hereby  removes  from  registration  all shares of
Company Common Stock under the Registration Statement which remain unsold.


                                 SIGNATURES

     Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  as
amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the  requirements  for filing on Form S-8 and has duly
caused this  Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 1 to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned,  thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State
of New York, on June 29, 2001.

                                       Citadel Communications Corporation



                                       By: /s/ Sandra J. Horbach
                                          ---------------------------------
                                          Name:  Sandra J. Horbach
                                          Title: President


     Pursuant   to  the   requirements   of  the   Securities   Act,   this
Post-Effective  Amendment  No. 1 has  been  signed  below by the  following
persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.



Signature                                Title *                                                Date
- ---------                                -------                                                ----

                                                                                      

     /s/ Sandra J. Horbach               President and Director                             June 29, 2001
- ---------------------------------------
           Sandra J. Horbach


    /s/ Winston W. Hutchins              Vice President, Treasurer                          June 29, 2001
- ---------------------------------------  and Assistant Secretary
          Winston W. Hutchins


   /s/  Theodore J. Forstmann            Director                                           June 29, 2001
- ---------------------------------------
         Theodore J. Forstmann


  /s/  Gordon A. Holmes                  Director                                           June 29, 2001
- ---------------------------------------
           Gordon A. Holmes


                                         Director                                           June 29, 2001
- ---------------------------------------
          Lawrence R. Wilson





*  All of the signatories are officers and/or directors of Citadel
   Communications Corporation, a Nevada corporation.