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.

1 History
2 Air America Controversy
3 Radio stations by state
4 Television
5 Links
6 References

[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 has 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) and WRAY (Raleigh) on December 20, 2006. Prior to that, the three stations swiched to a 24-hour infomercial format. The remaining two Scripps stations, WMFP & WSAH (which are currently in the process of getting their FCC licenses renewed) and a Sunbelt Television-owned America One affiliate KHIZ are awaiting complete purchase pending on FCC approval.^[1] ^[2]

[edit] Air America Controversy

In 2004, two weeks after Air America Radio debut, it was pulled off the Multicultural radio stations in the Chicago and Santa Monica markets due to a contract dispute. Air America alledged 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 to 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. [1]

[edit] Radio stations by state

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[edit] Arizona

KIDR-AM - Phoenix
KQTL-AM - Phoenix

[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 - Pasadena
KSON-AM - Pasadena
KYPA-AM - Pasadena
KFSG-AM - Sacramento
KLIB-AM - Sacramento
KATB-AM - San Francisco
KEST-AM - San Francisco
KIQI-AM - San Francisco
KSJX-AM - San Jose

[edit] Florida

WNMA-AM - Miami
WEXY-AM - Fort Lauderdale
WJCC-AM - Miami
WUNA-AM - Ocoee

[edit] Georgia

WGFS-AM - Scottsdale
WATB-AM - Scottsdale

[edit] New York

[edit] Pennsylvania

WTTM-AM - Philadelphia

[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 acquisitons, MRBI is the largest Asian owned television group in the United States. [3]

Current DMA#	Market/City Of License	Station/Channel Number (DT)	Current Affiliation
1.	New York	WSAH-Bridgeport 43 (42)	Independent (Infomercials)
2.	Los Angeles	KHIZ-Barstow 64 (44)	America One
5.	San Francisco	KCNS 38 (39)	Independent (Infomercials)
7.	Boston	WMFP 62 (18)	Independent (Infomercials)
17.	Cleveland-Akron-Canton	WOAC 67 (47)	Independent (Infomercials)
29.	Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville	WRAY 30 (42)	Independent (Infomercials)