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Emmis Communications

Emmis lists Monument Circle HQ for $35M

September 12, 2023
Mickey ShueyMickey Shuey

The seven-story, 140,000-square-foot structure at 40 Monument Circle was built in 1998 as a dedicated home for Emmis, then a growing media company.

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Emmis Corp. to make another attempt to go private

August 1, 2023
Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Emmis Corp. CEO Jeff Smulyan says he believes his fourth pitch to take the Indianapolis-based media company private will be successful.

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City official lobbying Purdue to take portion of Monument Circle

August 27, 2024 | Mickey ShueyMickey Shuey

Dan Parker, chief deputy mayor of Indianapolis, revealed at an IBJ event on Tuesday that he has pitched Purdue officials on locating some of its downtown operations in one of the two available buildings on the Circle.

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Emmis leads $48M investment into Israel-based ad-tech startup

June 30, 2023 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

Emmis was the lead investor in Anzu, an Israel-based company that has developed technology that allows companies to insert targeted ads into video games in a nonintrusive way.

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IBJ Podcast: Jeff Smulyan talks radio, owning a baseball team and David Letterman

January 3, 2023

IBJ reporter Dave Lindquist talks with Smulyan about his career, his successes and some of his initiatives that didn’t go so well.

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Emmis ‘blank check’ firm dissolves without making purchase

December 21, 2022 | John RussellJohn Russell

The company had raised $251 million in its initial public offering in January 2021, and has been on the hunt since then for companies to buy. But with the market cooling, it was unable to close any deals.

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Jeff Smulyan revisits highs, lows of storied media career in new book

December 9, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

A new book is capping a year of tremendous transition for the Emmis Corp. founder whose roster of former employees includes David Letterman, Mike Pence, Isaac Hayes and Ken Griffey Jr.

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Dan Dakich

Dan Dakich’s 14-year run on Indianapolis radio comes to an end

December 8, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Dakich, a former Indiana University basketball player and interim head coach, has been known for his combative persona on his midday sports talk show.

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With 10 media holdings, Urban One looks to blanket Indy

September 23, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

As regional vice president for Maryland-based Urban One, Deon Levingston holds the keys to the biggest house in Indianapolis broadcasting.

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FCC approves Urban One’s purchase of Emmis radio stations

August 18, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Urban One seeks to expand its audience and advertising customers beyond the company’s stated mission to serve Black and urban listeners.

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WIBC-FM reporter Berman, 7 other Emmis employees lose jobs prior to sale of radio stations

August 10, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Emmis Corp. on Wednesday said it dismissed eight employees in advance of a sale of the company’s Indianapolis radio stations to Urban One.

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Emmis founder Jeff Smulyan selected for Radio Hall of Fame

July 25, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Jeff Smulyan will enter Radio Hall of Fame with Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman, country countdown host Lon Helton and six others.

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Stan Lehr

After 28 years at WIBC, news anchor Stan Lehr set to sign off

June 30, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Broadcast veteran Stan Lehr spent time at radio stations in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska before joining the WIBC staff in 1993. He will work his final on-air shift Friday afternoon.

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Five questions and answers about Urban One’s acquisition of Emmis stations

June 15, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

The Indianapolis cluster of radio stations owned by Urban One Inc. is set to grow thanks to the upcoming acquisition of all Indianapolis radio properties now owned by Emmis Communications. Here are some of the details.

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UPDATE: Emmis reaches deal to sell Indy radio stations but will keep Circle HQ

June 13, 2022 | IBJ Staff

Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. announced Monday an agreement to sell the radio stations in its home market, including longstanding local stalwart WIBC 93.1 FM, to Urban One.

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‘Chicks on the Right’ co-founder to exit WIBC, cites vaccination mandates among reasons

January 11, 2022 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Miriam Weaver says the primary factor in her departure is newly available time to focus on ‘Chicks on the Right’ work with Amy Jo Clark.

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Jake Query

Jake Query to return to sports radio at The Fan

November 3, 2021 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

Indianapolis radio veteran Jake Query, former co-host of “The Query and Schultz Show,” is headed to mornings at Emmis-owned WFNI-FM, where he’ll have a new on-air partner.

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Emmis makes stock buyback offer, seeking up to 2 million shares

October 28, 2021 | Dave LindquistDave Lindquist

The stock buyback offer, announced Thursday, applies to up to 2 million shares of Class A common stock at $2.60 per share, or more than $1 per share above the closing price of Emmis shares on Thursday.

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Local sports talk morning radio show loses both co-hosts

August 15, 2021 | IBJ Staff

“The Fan Morning Show with Jeff & Big Joe” on Emmis-owned WFNI-FM has seen the departure of both Jeff Rickard and Joe Staysniak in the past week.

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Emmis to take AM 1070 off the air, although The Fan remains on FM stations

July 19, 2021 | Lesley WeidenbenerLesley Weidenbener

Emmis Communications Corp. says the signal’s towers in Whitestown will be dismantled to make way for development.

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Developer proposes $60M apartment complex on Emmis radio site in Whitestown

June 3, 2021 | Kurt Christian

Lafayette-based IG Development has submitted conceptual plans to redevelop roughly 27 acres of the Emmis Communications radio tower and transmission property in Whitestown with 408 apartments.

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Q&A with Taja Graham, Indy radio market president for Emmis

February 12, 2021 | Anthony SchoettleAnthony Schoettle

Graham is the second woman and the first minority in the company’s 41-year history to hold that post.

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