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Washington Post - 7/24/2007
Post Radio venture signs off

CNN Money - 6/26/2007
Politics: Off year, on the money

Boston Globe - 5/24/2007
New media, loss of Stern are tough on local stations

Washington Business Journal Interview with BIA's Mark Fratrik - 3/2007
Media analyst Mark Fratrik discusses why the merger of XM and Sirius faces an uphill battle.

PilotOnline - 1/05/2007
WTKR to be sold in deal announced Thursday
In calculating the revenue of the Times Co. in 2005, BIA's Media Access Pro Data listed WTKR annual revenues at $20.1 million, the fourth-highest among the Times' nine stations.

New York Post - 1/05/2007
Times Sells 9 TV Station For $575M
The Times wants to take resources and invest then in the Internet. They believe this is the future.

MediaWeek - 1/01/2007
Forecast 2007: TV Stations
"Retransmission consent goes right to the bottom line. So even if it's 3 to 5 percent of revenue, it's 10 to 15 percent of cash flow," notes Mark Fratrik of BIAfn.

MediaWeek - 1/01/2007
Forecast 2007: Radio
"The sale of CC stations is a monumental event in radio," says Mark Fratrik of BIAfn.

MediaWeek - 1/01/2007
Forecast 2007: Regulation
With the Dems in charge, the FCC "will be more hesitant to push the regulatory effort than they would have otherwise," says Mark Fratrik of BIAfn.