Gavel

Brokers Split On Visibility In Slow Year For Deals

One broker has no visibility for 2017, given the tepid trading environment. Another broker anticipates a "somewhat active" year
Jeff Smulyan

Emmis Privatization Decision Extended Another Week

Peter Lund and Susan Bayh now have until Oct. 14 to OK a proposal to shareholders that would take Emmis private
CBS

CBS Radio Sets Prices On Debt Financing

CBS Radio prices one offering at $400 million, and a second bond offering at $1.06 billion, as its spinoff plan proceeds

DTS Buys Arctic Palm As Tessera Moves Ahead

DTS is purchasing London, Ontario-based radio studio tech specialist Arctic Palm Technology for an undisclosed price.
Emmis Communications

Emmis Takes ‘A Step Back’ From Q1 Progress

Mother Nature, iHeartMedia cited as two key reasons for a "disappointing" fiscal Q2 2017

Big Fine Affirmed For Big Apple Pirate

Jose Luis Gerez now has 30 days from Oct. 5 to pay up for three years of unlicensed broadcasts at 95.1 MHz in Queens

‘A Difficult Quarter’ For Emmis In Fiscal Q2

Radio net revenues for fiscal Q2 slumped 3.3%, to $46.0 million from $47.6 million.

USA Radio Networks Makes A Quad City Investment

The buyer has not yet determined what it will do with the facility, which is tied to a top iHeartMedia station.

AdLarge, Marketron Pact On Programmatic

Marketron CEO Jeff Haley tells RBR + TVBR that the new programmatic platform will come either in Q4 2016 or in early '17

TRANSACTIONS TODAY: Gold Coast Radio, First Media

A Central Coast FM in California goes to its LMA partner; MD, PA stations sold for a combined $11M
Money

iHeart Earns Ability To Get $500M More

To accomplish this task, iHeart has agreed to pay a $8.6 million consent fee to its bondholders.

Andrulonis Takes A Stand Against ECU

ESPN Fayetteville to black out Saturday's ECF-USF game to "protest the protesters" following National Anthem kneel-down stunt

Bloomberg Taps Triton

Bloomberg will use the Triton Advertising Platform (Tap), and Triton's Webcast Metrics to measure their listening audience.

MirrorLink Added To iHeartRadio For Auto

Android-powered smartphone users can now use an iHeartRadio app with intuitive gesture technology and voice response.

iHeart Dissolves Central Division Regions

Texas is now in the same region as Southern California and Arizona. At the same time, Pittsburgh is now in the Northeast.