Late Spring For Transactions Bloom?

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It’s already the first full week of March, and brokers across the U.S. are feverishly awaiting an anticipated flood of deals from both TV companies who have been salivating at the finality of the FCC’s incentive auction and radio companies who believe a new administration will loosen ownership rules.


But, like the weather forecast for the National Capital Region for Sunday (3/12), icy conditions and a spring-like thaw still may be weeks away.

There were no new transactions posted at the FCC on Monday (3/6), and it’s been relatively quiet overall — aside from Entercom’s blockbuster tax-free merger with CBS Radio, which was months in the works.

Are we in the midst of the calm before the storm of sales and tornado of transactions strikes the U.S.?

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