PG 1 800.275.2840 THE MOST TRUSTED NEWS IN RADIO MORE NEWS» insideradio.com [email protected] | 800.275.2840 THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2015 Copyright chief pushes Congress to adopt a radio royalty. The U.S. Copyright Office has pushed for a performance royalty on FM/AM airplay for more than two decades, and current register Maria Pallante is singing a familiar tune. She told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday the current lack of a radio royalty puts the U.S. out of step with the rest of the industrialized world. “It’s indefensible as a matter of law, and frankly embarrassing as a matter of policy,” Pallante said. Like her predecessors, Pallante believes parity across platforms would be a fairer system to the music community and the various outlets that use their creations. “When their songs are played on radio, they’re subsidizing the profits of broadcasters,” she told the panel. The House Judiciary Committee was a sympathetic venue. Its members have long pushed for a performance royalty on radio, even passing a bill to create one in 2009, only to see the rest of the House reject the idea. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is trying again, introducing legislation this month that would force stations to pay for airplay as well as for streaming services for recordings made prior to 1972. Nadler told his fellow lawmakers that his bill would “create a technology neutral system” that ensures artists are “fairly compensated regardless of where their music is played.” Nadler’s bill has so far added just three co-sponsors, although Pallante said it provides an “excellent legislative framework.” Pallante: radio’s a royalty ‘oddity.’ Radio’s performance royalty battle is wrapped in a new package this year, as supporters have closely tied the issue to a larger update of copyright law. During yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, register of copyrights Maria Pallante said a century of regulating music it has left “oddities,” like the lack of a radio royalty in place. “We have all of these disparate rates and grandfathered clauses that are really difficult to apply,” she told lawmakers. “It does not serve the digital economy. It does not serve new entrants to the marketplace. And it definitely does not serve creators.” Her comments reiterated a report on the music industry released by the Copyright Office last year which also advocated a performance royalty on radio. Supporters seized on her statements. The Recording Academy’s chief lobbyist Daryl Friedman said her “words were music to musicians’ ears” and they “wholeheartedly agree that music creators are struggling with outmoded laws that have not kept step with the digital age.” The musicFirst Coalition also embraced her endorsement of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s proposed Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which it believes will create a music licensing system that works better for creators and radio. Meanwhile, three more lawmakers have come out against efforts to collect a performance royalty from radio stations. The list includes the House Commerce Committee’s top Democrat, Frank Pallone (D-NJ), as well as Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC). That brings the number of House members against the proposal to 173, another step closer to the current 217 votes needed to block a royalty bill. The lobbying line forms at the left: MIC Coalition joins music copyright debate. Lobbyists, start your engines — and make sure the gas tank is full. With 2015 turning into a critical year for music copyrights, a group of broadcasters, webcasters and venues has formed a new lobbying group to push for “continued access to play music at affordable prices.” The MIC Coalition, as in microphone, is advocating for copyright decisions “grounded in rationality, affordability and predictability.” The acronym stands for music, innovation and consumers. In addition to Cox Media Group, iHeartMedia, NPR and other media companies, members include digital music service owners (Amazon, Pandora, Google) and trade associations that represent restaurants, hotels, and retailers, along with the National Association of Broadcasters, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Digital Media Association. MIC says it wants a “rational, sustainable and transparent system” and “direct ways to access music and compensate artists.” The announcement of its formation came as lawmakers gathered Wednesday to talk about potential copyright reforms during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. The policy debate about copyrights
Copyright chief pushes Congress to adopt a radio royalty. The U.S. Copyright Office has pushed for a performance royalty on FM/AM airplay for more than two decades, and current register Maria Pallante is singing a familiar tune. She told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday the current lack of a radio royalty puts the U.S. out of step with the rest of the industrialized world. “It’s indefensible as a matter of law, and frankly embarrassing as a matter of policy,” Pallante said. Like her predecessors, Pallante believes parity across platforms would be a fairer system to the music community and the various outlets that use their creations. “When their songs are played on radio, they’re subsidizing the profits of broadcasters,” she told the panel. The House Judiciary Committee was a sympathetic venue. Its members have long pushed for a performance royalty on radio, even passing a bill to create one in 2009, only to see the rest of the House reject the idea. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is trying again, introducing legislation this month that would force stations to pay for airplay as well as for streaming services for recordings made prior to 1972. Nadler told his fellow lawmakers that his bill would “create a technology neutral system” that ensures artists are “fairly compensated regardless of where their music is played.” Nadler’s bill has so far added just three co-sponsors, although Pallante said it provides an “excellent legislative framework.”
Pallante: radio’s a royalty ‘oddity.’ Radio’s performance royalty battle is wrapped in a new package this year, as supporters have closely tied the issue to a larger update of copyright law. During yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, register of copyrights Maria Pallante said a century of regulating music it has left “oddities,” like the lack of a radio royalty in place. “We have all of these disparate rates and grandfathered clauses that are really difficult to apply,” she told lawmakers. “It does not serve the digital economy. It does not serve new entrants to the marketplace. And it definitely does not serve creators.” Her comments reiterated a report on the music industry released by the Copyright Office last year which also advocated a performance royalty on radio. Supporters seized on her statements. The Recording Academy’s chief lobbyist Daryl Friedman said her “words were music to musicians’ ears” and they “wholeheartedly agree that music creators are struggling with outmoded laws that have not kept step with the digital age.” The musicFirst Coalition also embraced her endorsement of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s proposed Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which it believes will create a music licensing system that works better for creators and radio. Meanwhile, three more lawmakers have come out against efforts to collect a performance royalty from radio stations. The list includes the House Commerce Committee’s top Democrat, Frank Pallone (D-NJ), as well as Reps. Walter Jones (R-NC) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC). That brings the number of House members against the proposal to 173, another step closer to the current 217 votes needed to block a royalty bill.
The lobbying line forms at the left: MIC Coalition joins music copyright debate. Lobbyists, start your engines — and make sure the gas tank is full. With 2015 turning into a critical year for music copyrights, a group of broadcasters, webcasters and venues has formed a new lobbying group to push for “continued access to play music at affordable prices.” The MIC Coalition, as in microphone, is advocating for copyright decisions “grounded in rationality, affordability and predictability.” The acronym stands for music, innovation and consumers. In addition to Cox Media Group, iHeartMedia, NPR and other media companies, members include digital music service owners (Amazon, Pandora, Google) and trade associations that represent restaurants, hotels, and retailers, along with the National Association of Broadcasters, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Digital Media Association. MIC says it wants a “rational, sustainable and transparent system” and “direct ways to access music and compensate artists.” The announcement of its formation came as lawmakers gathered Wednesday to talk about potential copyright reforms during a House Judiciary Committee hearing. The policy debate about copyrights
is likely to keep percolating in Washington all year, with action occurring at the Department of Justice, in Congress and at the Copyright Royalty Board. MIC joins the anti-radio royalty group Free Radio Alliance and the NAB on one side of the debate, pitted against pro-royalty factions like the Future of Music Coalition and MusicFirst. The latter shot back at MIC, calling it “a new bottle for the same old artist-stiffing wine” and questioning how it can support compensating artists while opposing an AM/FM performance right.
Q1 revenues up 4% at iHeartMedia. Revenues at iHeartMedia increased 4.1% to $697.8 million during the first quarter, driven primarily by gains at its traffic and weather and syndication businesses and in live events. Revenue growth was partially offset by lower core local broadcast radio ad dollars. Consolidated revenues for the company, including its domestic and international outdoor and other businesses, increased 4% to $1.4 billion after adjusting for a $54 million unfavorable impact from movements in foreign exchange rates. On a reported basis, iHeartMedia says consolidated revenues were slightly up. The company reported its consolidated net loss decreased from $424 million to $385 million in the quarter. In a press release, chairman & CEO Bob Pittman said the company was pleased with the revenue growth and that its recently announced programmatic buying platform will “enable advertisers and partners to engage seamlessly across all of our diverse media platforms” and bring “the power of radio to advertisers through an automated, real-time ad buying platform.” Pittman pointed to the company’s stepped-up live events business, including last month’s second annual iHeartRadio Music Awards Show, which racked up 14 billion social media impressions and was rated No. 1 among 18-49 year-olds across the Big 4 broadcast networks. President & COO Rich Bressler called the quarter one of “strong year over year growth,” adding that the company will “continue to pursue transactions that streamline our balance sheet and maximize liquidity, as well as continually review our entire portfolio of assets to ensure we operate them in the most efficient way possible.”
Hispanic media gets 8.4% of ad share: AHAA. Hispanic media’s share of advertising dollars has risen 52% during the past five years, according to an analysis conducted by AHAA, the Hispanic advertising trade group. It calculates Latino-targeted outlets capture 8.4% of total ad dollars spent by the top 500 marketers. That’s up from 5.5% in 2010. AHAA says nearly two-thirds of the growth can be attributed to marketers that are already heavily investing in Spanish-language and bilingual advertising. During the past five years the top 500 companies have increased their combined Hispanic market spending to $7.1 billion, up from $2.7 billion in 2010, a 63% increase. AHAA’s analysis of Nielsen data shows the typical advertiser now spends $14 million to reach Latino consumers, although that top-tier of spenders averages $52 million. Some of the biggest names in corporate America are coming around to the Hispanic market. AHAA credits Nissan, Toyota, Walmart, Target, Lowes, Verizon, AT&T, Ruby Tuesday and Wellpoint with growing their Hispanic-targeted spending the most. “The lesson from the top U.S. marketers is clear — follow the leader,” says Carlos Santiago, AHAA research chair and president of Santiago Solutions Group, who notes more “culturally nuanced messaging” is appearing on general market stations. Even as marketers spend more on Latino-targeted buys, iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman told the AHAA conference yesterday in Miami that he believes that a broader bilingual approach is part of a wider generational shift. “Millennials don’t describe friends based on their race but on things that are more relevant to them,” he said.
Podcasters beef up their content offerings. With demand growing for on-demand audio, a pair of big podcast players is upping the content ante. CBS Radio is adding a fresh batch of podcasts to its Play.it network. Boxing commentator Paulie Malignaggi from CBS-owned
Showtime, Elle style correspondent Alia Ahmed-Yahia and five-time TED.com speaker Julian Treasure are among the new contributors to CBS Radio’s four-month old Play.it platform. Also hosting new CBS podcasts are former New Jersey Nets player Jayson Williams, former CNN senior executive producer Michael Schulder, sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus, actress-author Marilu Henner and experts in culture, business, science, education, lifestyle and sports. Launched in January, Play.it draws on marquee radio talent like Boomer & Carton, Carson Daly and Kevin & Bean, web personalities like Tom Joyner and Jeffrey Hayzlett and content from CBS media brands including “48 Hours,” “60 Minutes,” CBS Sports Radio and Simon & Schuster, along with non-CBS entities such as Deadspin and Foursquare. It offers some 400 podcasts. “By bringing more talent across myriad interests to Play.it we hope to satisfy people’s needs across every category,” CBS Local Digital Media president Ezra Kucharz said. Meanwhile, NPR’s New York affiliate, WNYC-FM, is working with The New Yorker on a new national radio show and podcast scheduled to premiere this fall. The one-hour weekly show will be both syndicated to public radio and available on-demand. The still unnamed show “will be built around The New Yorker’s award-winning writers, artists and editors,” according to a press release.
Last call for Adelante Media Group as it sells remaining stations to Alpha Media. It took a bit more than a year for Adelante Media Group to liquidate. The final deal comes in Salt Lake City, where Alpha Media Group has struck a $3.25 million deal to buy its three Hispanic-targeted stations. The cluster includes regional Mexican “102.3 La Gran D” KDUT, Spanish CHR “Latino 106.1” KBMG, and Spanish adult hits “Juan AM 1600” KTUB. Alpha will begin operating the station under a local marketing agreement on Friday. Adelante CEO Jay Meyers calls the cluster the company’s “crown jewel.” Starting in early 2014, the Atalaya Capital-backed company began selling radio clusters in Seattle; Sacramento; Milwaukee; Modesto; Boise; Yakima, WA; and Tri-Cities, WA, as well as a handful of low-power TV stations. “It took a little longer than we thought, but the process went great,” Meyers says. Atalaya specializes in distressed debt deals, so a liquidation of Adelante had been in the cards from day one. Adelante was created in 2010 as part of the restructuring of Bustos Media, which has reconstituted itself and bought nine Adelante stations in Washington State for $6 million. Alpha is expected to keep the Spanish-language formats of the three Salt Lake City stations intact, as chairman Larry Wilson credits market manager Mary Lee Robinson and her team for delivering “beautiful entertainment” to the local Latino community. It’s a return to the market where Wilson’s Citadel Broadcasting once owned eight stations. When all its pending deals are completed, Alpha Media will own a total of 99 stations. Read Inside Radio’s Deal Digest on Page 5.
Cumulus’ big shareholder agrees to cap its ownership. Cumulus Media’s largest shareholder, the private equity firm Crestview Capital, is flexing its muscle a bit as it will now have the right to designate the chairman of the board. The disclosure in a regulatory filing follows this week’s naming of director Jeff Marcus as Cumulus’ non-executive chairman. Crestview currently holds 68.5 million shares or 28.5% of voting control, according to the most recent tabulation. Under a revised stockholders agreement, in exchange for naming rights it will be restricted from owning more than 75 million shares. There are also new limits on the buying and selling of equity securities between existing owners through September 2019. Crestview agrees not to buy any additional equity or take any steps that would potentially take Cumulus private. And the private equity firm agrees not to transfer its stock to any other shareholder who would, as a result of a deal, own greater than 25% of Cumulus’ stock, up from 10% under the previous guidelines. The regulatory filing also says Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey’s new contract extending through the end of 2018 will be under nearly the identical terms of his previous agreement. The only major difference is it spells out what he’d be paid if he were to exit the company before then.
Enforcement Bureau chief defends FCC’s downsizing plan. A FCC proposal to shut all but eight of 24 field offices has been positioned as a way to modernize agency operations by taking advantage of 21st century technology. But Enforcement Bureau chief Travis LeBlanc says there’s another reason: to end a decades-old policy of employee reduction by attrition. Speaking at the NAB Show, LeBlanc said FCC field operations haven’t been examined in nearly 25 years. “It became very apparent that morale in the field was low,” LeBlanc said. “As more field agents left, they weren’t being replaced,” he added, pointing to years of flat-line budgets as the culprit. He estimated more 50% of current field agents are eligible for retirement. LeBlanc said the modernization proposal would be tailored to 21st century challenges the Commission faces today. “We
looked through a lens of how the world has changed in 20 years such that we may not need as many people on the ground fulltime 365 days year,” he said. It’s no longer necessary to send agents out with binoculars to examine tower lights when there’s an automated system that notifies an owner about a lighting issue, he noted. Or have agents knocking on doors to inspect public files when they’re being posted online. He instead promised more engineers working on interference issues and pledged easier points of contact and faster response times for broadcasters. But some broadcasters remain skeptical. “To us, the FCC is those field offices,” one told LeBlanc, asking him to reconsider the downsizing. “When those engineers are on the prowl, we know we better have our act together.”
Congress has ‘significant questions’ about FCC field office closure plan. House Republicans are turning up the heat on the Federal Communications Commission over its plan to shut all but eight of the FCC’s current 24 field offices. Lawmakers have asked for more information about how the agency developed its plan. What they’ve received is a two-page memo and a 35-page PowerPoint presentation. In a pair of letters to FCC chief Tom Wheeler, members of Congress are asking he turn over all documents, memos and consultant reports telling him what’s been released so far raises “significant challenges and concerns.” The lack of openness is raising a red flag, they say, stoking suspicion that a pledge to take action on 99% of interference complaints within 24-hours may be unachievable. Among the questions Communications Subcommittee chair Greg Walden (R-OR) and Financial Services Subcommittee chair Andrew Crenshaw (R-FL) want answered is how much money the FCC expects to save by adopting the plan. Speaking at the NAB Show, Wheeler said the first review of field office operations in 20 years was overdue, and that technology can be used to help agents. National Association of Broadcasters president Gordon Smith says he understands there are some concerns about the agency’s enforcement efforts, but he believes the FCC should be given an opportunity to prove it can operate more efficiently. “It’s not a hill that the NAB is going to die over,” Smith said. “If they can get the job done more efficiently with fewer offices but personnel better distributed, I just care about the results.”
Pittsburgh personality suspended over Baltimore comments. The latest example of how air personalities are being held accountable for social media posts — even those on their personal accounts — comes from Pittsburgh. That’s where Martz Communications Group’s urban WAMO (600, 100.1) has suspended afternoon drive personality Mike Jax over comments he made about the unrest in Baltimore. In comments posted on his personal Twitter account, Jax said Freddie Gray — the man who died while in police custody sparking this week’s riots — was “pretty busy” before he was “unjustly killed” while in Baltimore Police custody. His post, which has been deleted, also listed several of Gray’s previous arrests. That set off a firestorm of phone calls and emails directed at the station. In an apology, Jax says he was drawing attention to Gray’s arrest record and his comments weren’t intended to justify his death. “I’m sorry I was not more clear,” he writes to listeners. There’s no word how long he’ll be on suspension or whether it’s without pay. In a statement, WAMO general manager Jamal Woodson says the station “does not share or condone the comments” expressed by Jax. “We expect a code of conduct that should transcend the airwaves,” Woodson says.
Inside Radio News Ticker…Vikings renew with ‘The Fan’…A new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings is sure to drive up interest in the team when the NFL season begins next fall. One thing that won’t change is the radio flagship. IHeartMedia’s “100.3 The Fan” KFXN-FM, Minneapolis has signed a new five-year deal, continuing a relationship that began in 2000. Games will also air on sister “News Talk 1130” KTLK. Play-by-play announcer Paul Allen will return for another season…People Moves….Cox Media Group promotes AJ Punjabi and Angelina Rosario to general sales manager of the company’s Miami cluster. Former congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart joins Univision. And CBS Radio CHR “99.7 Now” KMVQ, San Francisco promotes Shannon Clark to become its new midday personality. Read People Moves at InsideRadio.com.
The Conclave puts 2015 Rockwell winner to a vote. The Conclave is going democratic and putting up to a vote who should win this year’s Rockwell Award. That’s the organization’s annual lifetime achievement award. In the past a committee picked the winner, but the Conclave board chair Lori Lewis says they concluded it’s important for the industry to have a say. This year’s nominees include radio production pro Ann DeWig, NRG Media CEO Mary Quass, Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan, and consultant Dan Vallie. Voting will continue on TheConclave.com through midnight tonight.
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Salt Lake City — Alpha Media Group files a $3.25 million deal to buy regional Mexican “102.3 La Gran D” KDUT, Spanish CHR “Latino 106.1” KBMG, and Spanish adult hits “Juan AM 1600” KTUB from Adelante Media Group. Alpha will operate the Salt Lake City cluster under a local marketing agreement until closing. Broker: Bill Fanning, Media Venture Partners (for Adelante)
Milwaukee — Bustos Media has struck a $1 million deal to buy regional Mexican “La Gran D 104.7” WDDW from Adelante Media. Bustos will begin operating the station under a local marketing agreement until closing. The company previously owned the station from 2006 to 2010 when a restructuring put WDDW into Adelante’s hands. Broker: Bill Fanning, Media Venture Partners
California — D&H Broadcasting files a $650,000 deal to buy hot AC “93.9 The Lake” KRLT and news/talk KOWL (1490) in South Lake Tahoe, CA from Cherry Creek Radio. D&H Broadcasting is a partnership among current general manager Steve Harness and investors KRLT afternoon personality Stacy Driskill and Jay Harness. The deal includes $250,000 cash payment and a five-year promissory note. D&H will begin operating the station under a local marketing agreement on July 1 if the deal has not yet closed.
Alaska — Tom Steigleman’s CBI Media Group files a $260,500 deal to buy “Valley News Talk 1020” KVNT, Anchorage from Alaska Integrated Media. CBI Media Group already owns religious “Life Changing Radio” KATB (89.3), contemporary Christian “Z-93.7” KAFC (93.7) and a low-power TV station in the Anchorage market, as well as construction permits for two new stations at 1310 and 1470 AM. It plans to keep KVNT’s conservative talk format. CBI Media Group will operate KVNT under a local marketing agreement until closing. Alaska Integrated Media will still own two other stations in the market.
Knoxville — Hodges Media files to buy regional Mexican “La Raza 1340” WKGN from Espinosa Radio for $225,000. The station has been operated by the Norsan Group under a local marketing agreement.
California — Adelman Communications files an $110,000 deal to buy KGIL, Johannesburg, CA (98.5) from Saul Levine’s Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters. Robert Adelman owns seven other stations in the area, but only four will overlap with KGIL. Mount Wilson has used KGIL to simulcast “Go Country 105” KKGO, Los Angeles into the Ridgecrest area north of L.A. Broker: The Exline Company
Virginia — Wilkins Communications files a $75,000 deal to buy the Petersburg, VA-licensed translator W274AB at 102.7 FM from Positive Alternative Radio. The translator will simulcast Wilkins’ religious WDZY (1290) onto the FM dial.
Duluth — Townsquare Media files a $55,000 deal to buy the Moose Lake, MN-licensed translator W293CT at 106.5 FM from
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Refuge Media Group. Townsquare will use the signal to simulcast “560 ESPN” WEBC on the FM dial. That may help it close the gap with Red Rock Radio’s rival sports station “Red Zone Radio” KQDS (1490), which Nielsen says had a 2.7 rating share (12+) in the Fall book compared to WEBC’s 1.4 share.
Ohio — Educational Media Foundation files to sell the Green Meadows, OH-licensed translator W277AO at 103.3 FM to Bradlee Beer for $42,500. EMF still covers the area with full-power “K-Love” station WKCD, Dayton (90.3). With a signal that currently covers the northeastern Dayton suburbs, Bradlee indicates in the filing that he will simulcast Cox Media Group’s country “K-99” WHKO on the translator.
Illinois — Jerome Zimmer files to buy the Normal, IL-licensed translator W221CY at 92.1 FM from Cornerstone Community Radio for $40,000. The signal will be used to simulcast Zimmer’s country “107.7 The Bull” WIBL in the Bloomington, IL market.
Multistate Deal — American FM Associates files a $30,000 deal to buy three construction permits for translators from Airport Investors. The translators include the Sarasota, FL-licensed W260CJ at 99.9 FM; the Denver, PA-licensed W225CF at 92.7 FM; and the Roxana, DE-licensed W232CL at 94.3 FM. All three are expected to air Moody Bible Radio programming.
Tri-Cities, WA — Alexandra Communications files to buy the Richland, WA-licensed translator K258CN at 99.5 FM from Lyle Dodge for $3,150. The filing says Alexandra will simulcast Bustos Media’s regional Mexican “Z-96.7” KMMG on the translator.
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Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville, NC — Educational Media Foundation closes a $700,000 deal to buy classic country “98.9 The Bear” WNBR-FM from Eure Communications. Eure still owns WNBB in the market, which will pick up the WNBR-FM call letters following its rebranding as “97.9 The Bear.” EMF will install the new call letters WLXB on 98.9 FM. EMF already owns contemporary Christian “K-Love” stations WLVG (105.1) and WKGV (104.1) in the market.
Ft. Pierce-Stuart-Vero Beach, FL — IHeartMedia closes on its re-patriotization of WCZR, Vero Beach (101.7) from the Aloha Station Trust. WCZR simulcasts talk “Real Radio 94.3” WZZR from the nearby West Palm Beach market. IHeartMedia also owns country “Wave 92.7” WAVW, “Oldies 103.7” WQOL, AC “Kool 105.5” WOLL, and “News Talk 1370” WZTA in the Ft. Pierce-Stuart-Vero Beach market.
Reno, NV — Open Sky Radio closes a deal to buy adult alternative “Radio Free Nevada” KXNV (89.1) from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada for one dollar. Open Sky Radio already owns the noncommercial country KLAP (89.5) in the Reno market.
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