Analysis Of Radio Station Mergers And Acquisitions
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The radio industry is seeing rapid mergers and single companies buying many radio stations at one time. The trend now is for Communication companies to own several radio stations in a single market. As a result of these proposed mergers and acquisitions, the FCC has reviewed many of the planned ....
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.... Department are reviewing several mergers that would give companies control over 60% or more of the local radio advertising revenue market. Officials have previously allowed one company to own up to 53% of the local radio advertising revenue market. With these current deals, the threshold would push that to 75%. The FCC currently has no magic number for reviewing local advertising revenue.
One of the cases that the FCC is currently reviewing is Regent Communications’ acquisition of f ....
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