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An Indiana Superior Court judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would have blocked the buyout of Emmis Communications by Jeff Smulyan's JS Acquisitions. The judge ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show a likelihood that they'd prevail on the merits of their claims. |
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An examiner appointed by the bankruptcy court says he's found evidence of "dishonesty" in the buyout that took Tribune private in 2007, Reuters reports. Tribune filed for Chapter 11 in December 2008 after the deal left it billions of dollars in debt. |
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Entravision Communications has closed its previously announced offering of $400 million in senior secured notes due 2017. The company also announced that it has entered into a new revolving credit facility of up to $50 million. |
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ADVERTISEMENT -- REALTORS® spend $1 billion annually to market their services and 30% are ready to buy radio! See the video from the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Annual Conference. Read more. |
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Sherman Kizart's Kizart Media Partners sets the agenda and keynotes for the annual Power of Urban Radio Forum, set for September 16 in Washington, DC, in conjunction with NABOB's Fall Management Conference. PURF is set to feature leading agency and advertiser executives from, among others, Uniworld Group, Burrell Communications Group, Hewlett Packard, and Home Depot. |
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The controversial campaign-finance bill known as the DISCLOSE Act failed to get past its first step in the Senate Tuesday, by a vote of 57-41 and no Republican voting for cloture. The bill would, among other things, have required lengthy disclosures in campaign ads, although last week an exemption from some disclosures for radio was added to the bill. |
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Andrew Ross Sorkin joins the lineup at Radio Ink's Forecast 2011, set for December 7, 2010 at the Harvard Club in New York. Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for the New York Times and the best-selling author of the recent Too Big to Fail, and he's as well connected in the financial world as anyone in radio. The thrice-daily "Business Brief With Andrew Ross Sorkin" is produced and distributed by United Stations Radio Networks. Click the headlne for Forecast information and registration. |
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