Multicultural Broadcasting
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Multicultural Broadcasting is a media company based in New York City. Multicultural caters mostly to the Asian American community and owns television and radio stations in several of the top markets in multiple languages.
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[edit] History
This company was founded as Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc. (MRBI) in 1982 with an initial business in United States radio broadcasting industry. To this day, it remains the largest Asian American owned media group in the U.S.
On September 26, 2006, Multicultural Broadcasting made an agreement with The E. W. Scripps Company to buy five of Scripps' Shop At Home/Jewelry Television affiliated broadcast television stations for $170 million. Sales were final on KCNS (San Francisco), WOAC (Cleveland), WRAY (Raleigh) on December 20, 2006, followed by WMFP (Boston) and WSAH (New York). Prior to that, the five stations switched to a 24-hour infomercial format. The Sunbelt Television-owned America One affiliate KHIZ is awaiting complete purchase pending on FCC approval.[1][2]
[edit] Air America Controversy
In 2004, two weeks after Air America Radio's debut, it was pulled off the Multicultural radio stations in the Chicago and Santa Monica markets due to a contract dispute. Air America alleged that Multicultural sold time on their Los Angeles station to both AAR and another party, and claimed that that was why they stopped payment on checks due Multicultural while AAR investigated.
Multicultural noted that Air America bounced a check and claimed they were owed in excess of $1 million. Air America Radio filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court, charging breach of contract and was briefly granted an injunction to restore the network on WNTD-AM in Chicago. On April 20, the network announced the dispute had been settled, and Air America's last day of broadcast on WNTD was April 30. The New York Supreme Court ultimately concluded that the injunction was improvidently entered and that Air America Radio's court action was without merit, dismissing Air America's complaint and awarding over $250,000 in damages and attorneys' fees to Multicultural.[3] According to a subsequent lawsuit filed by Multicultural, Air America Radio never paid the sums ordered by the court.[4]
[edit] Radio stations by state
[edit] Arizona
[edit] California
- KALI-FM - Santa Ana
- KALI-AM - Santa Ana
- KAZN-AM - Pasadena
- KAHZ-AM - Pasadena (at Pomona)
- KMRB-AM - Los Angeles (MRBI's Flagship Station)
- KWRU-AM - Fresno
- KBLA-AM - Santa Monica
- KYPA-AM - Los Angeles
- KFSG-AM - Sacramento
- KLIB-AM - Sacramento
- KSON-AM - San Diego (Brokered with Lincoln Financial Group)
- KATB-AM - San Francisco
- KEST-AM - San Francisco
- KIQI-AM - San Francisco
- KSJX-AM - San Jose
[edit] Florida
[edit] Georgia
[edit] Illinois
[edit] Maryland
[edit] Massachusetts
[edit] New Jersey
[edit] New York
[edit] Pennsylvania
[edit] Texas
- KDFT-AM - Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex (at Ferris)
- KMNY-AM - Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex (at Hurst)
- KCHN-AM - Houston
- KXYZ-AM - Houston
[edit] Washington
[edit] Television
With the completion of 2006 acquisitions, MRBI is the largest Asian owned television group in the United States. [2]
| Current DMA# | Market/City Of License | Station/Channel Number (DT) | Current Affiliation |
| 1. | New York | WSAH-Bridgeport 43 (42) | Gems TV |
| 2. | Los Angeles | KHIZ-Barstow 64 (44) | America One |
| 5. | San Francisco | KCNS 38 (39) | Independent |
| 7. | Boston | WMFP 62 (18) | Gems TV |
| 17. | Cleveland-Akron-Canton | WOAC 67 (47) | Independent (Infomercials) |
| 29. | Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville | WRAY 30 (42) | Independent (Infomercials) |
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[edit] References
- ^ Scripps sells Shop At Home TV stations The E.W. Scripps Co. Press Release
- ^ Multicultural Television Group
- ^ PDF of court order. Retrieved on 2006-10-13.
- ^ NYDailyNews.com
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