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2010-09-10: Alden Global Capital gives it version of breakdown of talks to take Emmis private - blames it on revision of deal it agreed to.
2010-09-10: American Public Media Group/Minnesota Public Radio President Bill Kling, who launched MPR in 1967, to stand down in June next year.
2010-09-09: Emmis founder, chairman and CEO Jeff  Smulyan gives up his second attempt to take the company private.
*This report has been updated.
2010-09-09: Boost from Federal elections helps increease Australian commercial radio metropolitan advertising revenues in August by 17.3% on a year ago.
2010-09-09: Pacifica Radio reported to be in talks about airing Qatar-based Al Jazeera English news service on its five stations.
2010-09-08: Emmis postpones yet again -until tomorrow evening - shareholders meeting to vote on buyout deal.
2010-09-08: Missouri Attorney General sues Sirius XM for breaching state's no-call laws.
2010-09-08: US NPR launches its ARGO network of specialized local sites.
2010-09-07: Westwood One announces that Gary Schonfeld is to step down as President of its Radio Network Division and return to his Adlarge Media company.
2010-09-07: UK media regulator Ofcom posts details of its digital multiplex licence proposals and also its August Radio Update.
2010-09-06: Clear Channel flips formats in Atlanta and Honolulu and in Denver Max Media drops talk for Rythmic Oldies.
2010-09-06: Westwood One filing shows that former chairman Norman J. Pattiz is to receive USD 340,000 a year as consultant.
2010-09-05: Look at licence and regulatory news of the past week.
2010-09-04: Peconic Public Broadcasting's WLIU-FM still on air despite absence of formal confirmation from Long Island University that it has not put station up for sale again.
2010-09-03: Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan again extends - this time to Wednesday - deadline for acceptance of offer to take the company private.
2010-09-03: Gerry House announces that his morning show on Clear Channel's WPIX-FM, Nashville, will end in December.
2010-09-03: BBC Radio 5 Live launches new weekend schedule tomorrow.
2010-09-03: US Federal Communications Commission proposes USD 20,000 penalty on Florida pirate FM operator.
2010-09-03: Longtime BBC Radio 2 early morning host Sarah Kennedy leaves station after 17 years in the slot..
2010-09-02: Emmis delays yet again - this time until tomorrow - vote on attempted buyout by founder, chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan.
2010-09-01: CBS Radio's KMOX-AM, St Louis, gets Cardinals' rights back after five-year hiatus.
2010-09-01: Southern Cross Media Group - former Macquarie Media Group - Australian revenues up 3.5% in year to end of June, driven by TV.
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2010-09-01: Canadian watchdog rules that Toronto station's use of term "scab" inaccurately for worker killed in elevator accident breached industry codes.
2010-08-31: Canadian private radio revenues down 5.2% on a year earlier in 2009 according to Statistics Canada.
2010-08-31: Radio One Inc. further extends the deadline for its offer to exchange existing notes for new debt.
2010-08-31: GMG Radio appoints Andy Carter, managing director of its north-west operations, as managing director of the company's national Smooth Radio.
2010-08-31: Clear Channel discloses that it spent USD 1.37 million in lobbying Congress in second quarter, nearly twice the figure a year earlier.
2010-08-31: UTV revenues up 9% on a year ago in first six months of year with operating profits up 17%, driven by GB radio.
2010-08-30: Alden Global Capital backs out of financing Emmis buy-out by its founder, chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan.
2010-08-30: Westwood One founder Norman J. Pattiz steps down as chairman.
2010-08-30: Australian Communications and Media Authority auctions five new high power open narrowcasting licences for total of AUD 795,000.
2010-08-30: CBS Radio appoints media veteran Steve Carver as Senior Vice President and Market Manager, Los Angeles, to replace Ed Krampf.
2010-08-29: Look at licence and regulatory news of the past week.
2010-08-28: FCC reduces proposed penalties on an Illinois AM and North Carolina FM.
2010-08-27: Emmis yet again fails to get quorum for meeting to vote on buyout offer - still in talks with dissident preference shareholders.
2010-08-27: Indian music industry threatens court action against Copyright Board's new music royalty rates.
2010-08-26: US National Association of Broadcasters EVP Dennis Wharton in blog accuses opponents of mandatory FM tuner in cell-phones of of being "long on exaggeration, rhetoric and factual inaccuracies."
2010-08-26: New rates could cut Indian radio music royalty payments by four-fifths.
2010-08-26: BBC Trust says percentage of BBC radio programming open to independent producers should be doubled to a fifth but the producers, who wanted more, express disappointment.
2010-08-25: BIA-Kelsey forecasts US over-the air revenues to rise by 4.4% this year with large markets and online revenues to increase more.
2010-08-25: Broadcasting Authority of Ireland signs contract for new community service in County Cork.
2010-08-25: US Federal Communications Commission proposes USD 4,000 penalty on Nassau Broadcasting for not running competition as promoted but cancels USD 7,000 proposed penalties on two Florida stations.
2010-08-24: Absolute Radio launches its 90s station on UK national commercial digital multiplex for five week trial/ also suspends for a while operation of its experimental online dabbl station.
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