Emmis Radio Revenue Drops, KPWR Proceeds To Lower Debt

Emmis Communications Corporation today announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ending February 28, 2017.  After the end of the quarter, on May 8, 2017, Emmis entered into an agreement to sell KPWR-FM in Los Angeles to an affiliate of the Mereulo Group for $82.75 million.  This transaction is expected to close later this year and proceeds will be used to repay more than 50% of the Company's credit facility debt outstanding.

Emmis' radio net revenues for the fourth fiscal quarter were $34.0 million, down from $36.4 million from the prior year, a decrease of 6.6%. Per Miller Kaplan reporting, which excludes barter revenues and syndication revenues, and excluding results from Los Angeles, Emmis' fourth quarter radio revenues were down 4.8% in markets that were down 0.2%. Austin and St. Louis outperformed their markets, with St. Louis up 10% in a market that was up 1%.

For the full year, radio revenues were $165.1 million, compared to $169.2 million in the prior year, a decrease of 2.4%.   For the full year, Emmis radio revenues per Miller Kaplan reporting, excluding results from Los Angeles, were down 0.3%, narrowly missing the performance of its markets, which were up 0.5%.

During the fourth quarter, Emmis closed on the sale of its Terre Haute radio cluster on January 30, 2017 and closed on the sale of Los Angeles, Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Orange Coast magazines on February 28, 2017.  Emmis' sole remaining magazine is Indianapolis Monthly.

"The decision to sell KPWR was an extremely difficult one to make, but it allows us to dramatically reduce our indebtedness, leading to much needed financial flexibility during challenging times for the U.S. radio business," said Jeff Smulyan, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Emmis. "Our industry needs a catalyst, and we remain convinced we have it in NextRadio®.  The NextRadio-developed Dial Report™, which provides robust data measurement and big data analytics for radio campaigns, has been a huge hit with advertisers and agencies since its introduction in January of this year."

Smulyan added that the cash commitment to Sprint had been satisfied and the business relationship between NextRadio and Sprint was extended for an additional three years.

Snap Shares Plunge

By Narottam Medhora

(Reuters) - Snap Inc shares plunged as much as 23.5 percent on Thursday after the owner of the wildly popular Snapchat app's user growth and revenue numbers failed to show that it was adequately dealing with rising competition from Facebook.

Snap, which calls itself a camera company, posted its debut quarterly scorecard following its hugely successful IPO in March, reporting slowing user growth and widely missing Wall Street's revenue expectations.

Snap shares plunged to $17.59, their lowest since the initial public offering on March 2, wiping off more than $6 billion of its market value. The stock had debuted at $17.

"The 7 million daily active users net-adds were not strong enough to disprove the 'Facebook is crushing Snapchat' thesis," which we think will persist for a while," Barclays analyst Ross Sandler wrote in a client note.

Analysts, including Sandler, on Thursday revised their expectations for the stock with at least nine brokerages lowering their price targets. The median price target on the stock is $24.

Currently, 12 of the 35 brokerages covering the stock rate it "buy" or higher. Sixteen have "hold" ratings and seven rate it "sell" or lower.

Facebook Inc had also plunged after posting results for the first time in 2012, but has since ensconced itself as a Wall Street darling by transforming the company into an advertising giant.

Shares of Twitter Inc, which competes with Snap and had 328 million average monthly active users in the latest quarter, had also tumbled 24 percent after its first quarterly report.

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Snapchat is battling Facebook for users on multiple fronts.

Instagram, owned by Facebook, has more than 200 million people a day using its Stories while WhatsApp Status, launched in February, has more than 175 million daily active users.

Both applications mimic Snapchat, allowing users to post a string of photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours.

Facebook also allows users to tweak photos on their smartphones with visual details like a rainbow or a beard of glitter, also similar to Snapchat.

Facebook itself had some 1.94 billion people using its service monthly as of March 31.

Snap's daily active users (DAUs), on the other hand, rose 36.1 percent to 166 million in the first quarter from a year earlier, marking a slowdown from the 47.7 percent rise for the fourth quarter and 62.8 percent jump for the third quarter.

Questions about Snap's ability to monetize its product - a hit with millennials - remained as well.

Average revenue per user (ARPU) was 90 cents in the first quarter, up from 33 cents the same quarter a year earlier, but below the $1.05 per user in the fourth quarter of 2016.

"Snap came to the public markets just as its user and monetization growth were both starting to meaningfully slow. It now faces incrementally fierce competition from deeper-pocketed rivals including Facebook," Instinet LLC analyst Anthony DiClemente said.

S-F Radio: Steven Seaweed To Retire From KSAN

Cumulus Media has announced that Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame DJ and KSAN 107.7 FM The Bone midday personality, Steven Seaweed, will retire after 44 years on-air. Seaweed’s farewell broadcast will be on June 30, 2017, from 10am-3pm on The Bone 107.7.

Steven Seaweed

Seaweed has been a staple of Bay Area Rock radio since his debut on KLRB-FM in Carmel, CA, on New Year’s Eve, 1972. After six years with the station, Seaweed joined KSAN-FM (then known as “The Jive 95”), where he did weekends on the freeform progressive rock station through its format change to Country in November 1980. He moved on to on-air positions at Bay Area stations including: KFAT-FM (“The Wide Spot On the Dial”), KWSS-FM, KRQR-FM (The Rocker”) and KLLC-FM (“Alice@97.3), before rejoining KSAN in 1997, his station home for the last 20 years.

Seaweed will be feted by his station colleagues, listeners, and Rock royalty, who will celebrate Seaweed’s significant contributions to the Bay Area’s rich Rock history with special on-air guests and farewell stops through June 30. 107.7 The Bone will send Seaweed off to his retirement in style; fittingly celebrating his brilliant career at sea, on a June “Bone-Voyage Cruise” for winning listeners, guests and station staff. More details will be announced on 107.7 The Bone.

Justin Wittmayer, Vice President/Market Manager, Cumulus Media-San Francisco, said: “I’d like to thank Steven for his contributions to Bay Area Radio over the past 44 years. He left his mark on many radio stations and will forever be a part of the KSAN family. Steven has an open invitation to DJ the (commercial free) New Year’s Eve overnight shift anytime he’d like...I encourage his fans to make that happen! @stevenseaweed”

Dominic “Zakk” Zaccagnini, KSAN-FM Program Director, said: “It’s been a professional thrill to work alongside the “Weedman” in the hallways and follow him each weekday on the air at The Bone. He will be forever be part of the KSAN family.”

Seaweed said: “"44 years ago, nobody wanted to work at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Except me! I volunteered, got the job, and went on to have the most rewarding career in Radio. I have been so lucky all these years to have worked with the most incredible people, at many legendary Radio stations, and with the best Radio listeners on the planet. Thank you, everybody!"

D/FW Radio: KRLD Adds Joe Pags Talk Show

Joe Pags

San Antonio-based Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo is now heard on CBS RADIO KRLD 1080 AM.

Pags will be heard evenings.  The addition to Joe Pags’ affiliate roster puts his program on in virtually every market in his home state of Texas and extends his list of affiliates to 95.

Pags, whose originates via WOAI in San Antonio states, “It is an absolute privilege to be a part of a station with so much heritage and a track record for being an industry leader in news and talk.  I’m thrilled to be on KRLD!”

Pags started his career in radio in 1989 in Palm Beach County, Florida before making his way to the TV anchor desk in Saginaw/Flint, Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, and Lansing, Michigan then moving on to Albany, New York. From there he was called back to radio and landed at the WOAI in 2005.

Pags has won multiple Associated Press awards for excellence in journalism in both Michigan and New York. Michigan Association of Broadcasting award-winner and has been cited by the US House of Representatives and the State of Michigan for his broadcasts following the attacks of 9/11.

Along with his syndicated daily show, Pags hosts Premiere’s nationally syndicated “The Weekend w/Joe Pags.” Pags is a member of Talkers Magazine’s “Heavy Hundred,” and his show was recently named to the NewsMax list of the most influential local talk shows in the country.

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Pagliarulo’s program is syndicated by Compass Media Networks.

Syracuse NY Radio: Bud&The Manchild Show Returning To WSKO

The Bud and the Manchild Radio Show is heading back to WSKO The Score 1260 AM.

The independently-owned sports talk radio show will return to the CNY airwaves on Tuesday, May 30, 2017.  The show has aired on WTLA-AM and FM for the last year and a half.  Bud and the Manchild has been off the air for the past few weeks.

“A change was needed to get the show back on track in terms of our core values,” Jim Lerch, co-host of the show said.  “Cumulus Media and the Score 1260 were great partners in the past and we are very excited to join forces with them again.  It was very tough leaving The Score 1260 in 2015, and we consider that decision a mistake. We are thrilled to be working with Cumulus Media once again.”
The live sports talk radio show will be broadcast on Cumulus Media’s WSKO 1260 AM from 10am-12 noon weekdays, the same time slot the show has occupied for the past five and a half years.

Beth Coughlin, VP/Market Manager of Cumulus Syracuse, said: “We are pleased that Bud and the Manchild are coming back home to The Score 1260.”

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Bud and the Manchild is co-hosted by Jim “The Manchild” Lerch, a veteran Central New York TV and radio personality and Bud Poliquin, the now-retired sports columnist of Syracuse.com and the Post Standard newspaper.  The two started the show back in 2002, which makes it the longest running sports talk show in Syracuse.

Miami Radio: SBS Promotes Donny Hudson

Donny Hudson

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. today announced that Donny Hudson has been named General Manager and Vice President of SBS Miami supervising all operations at WXDJ-FM (EL NUEVO ZOL 106.7FM), WRMA-FM (RITMO 95.7FM), WCMQ-FM (ZETA 92.3FM), and the LaMusica app.

Hudson has been with SBS for eighteen years and previously held various managerial positions including SVP of Sales, Local Sales Manager, and Director of Local Sales.

Prior to joining Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS), Hudson served as EVP of Sales for America CV Network/ America TeVe. He also worked in sales at HBC for WRTO-98.3FM, WAMR-107.5FM and WQBA-1140AM, WAQI-710AM and then as General Sales Manager of WRTO-98.3FM. He started his radio career at WSUA-Radio Suave after graduating from the University of Miami in 1989 with a Degree in Broadcasting. He is a proud Miami native.

“Donny’s radio experience and acumen are a matter of indisputable record and we’re confident in his leadership abilities and ability to take our Miami stations to the highest level of operational excellence. He knows radio, he knows the advertisers, he knows the Company and its people and he’s intimately familiar with our Miami stations and audiences. No one is more qualified to take over the reins of SBS Miami,” stated, Albert Rodriguez COO of SBS.

“I am extremely excited for this opportunity and look to continue using my experience and relentless drive to grow SBS Miami shares while working alongside the great team and family that we have at SBS Miami,” stated Donny Hudson.

AZ Radio: KAVV Pulls Kiddie-Porn PSA

 An classic country radio station serving a rural Arizona area that aired a public service announcement for two years telling people how to hide potential evidence in child pornography cases has stopped doing so after advertisers received threats, the station's owner said Wednesday.

According to CBS News, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels said he formally opened an investigation Tuesday that includes seeking legal advice from the county attorney on whether charges can be filed in connection with the public service announcement, CBS affiliate KPHO reports.

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KAVV 97.7 FM owner Paul Lotsof said in an interview that he does not like child pornography but created the announcement because he thinks Arizona's 10-year minimum sentence for each image of child porn is too harsh and costly for taxpayers.

"Nobody put me up to it, and nobody paid," he said. "My feeling is that these people don't deserve life in prison just because they have pictures of naked juveniles."

But recent public comment about the announcement was "99.9 percent" negative and some radio station advertisers received threats, he said. The signal of the radio station from the small southeastern Arizona city of Benson beams across a wide area that stretches toward the Mexico border.

'The announcement described Arizona's tough penalties for possession of child pornography and then provides advice on how to avoid convictions.

It said: "If you have such material, you can save yourselves and your family a ton of grief and save the taxpayers a lot of money by never storing such pictures on the hard drive of your computer. Always use an external drive and hide it where nobody will ever find it. Likewise, never keep paper pictures, tapes or films of naked juveniles where anybody else can find them."

The announcement drew the attention of local law enforcement officials, with Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels calling it "disgusting and unacceptable" and encouraging "evil behavior."

On Wednesday Lotsof  pulled the PSA off-air.

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21st Century Fox Misses Wall Street Sales Target

By Jessica Toonkel and Aishwarya Venugopal

(Reuters) -- Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O), the television and film company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, reported quarterly revenue below Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday, weighed down by weaker box office results.

Its shares initially dipped in after-hours trading, but then regained ground to where they ended regular trading, at $27.90.

Sales at the company's film division fell nearly 3 percent to $2.26 billion in the fiscal third quarter as releases like "Logan", grossed less than the 2016 hit "Deadpool" did in the same quarter last year.

The television side of Fox's business fared better, posting an increase in both advertising and U.S. cable, even as many of its peers have reported declines in both areas.

Fox's ad sales jumped 16 percent, helped by spending on the Super Bowl, which Fox aired this year. Chief Executive James Murdoch, Rupert's son, told analysts on a post-earnings call that all of its networks except National Geographic showed advertising growth.

Still, some analysts hoped for more.

"The cable business is more of a recurring business than film," said Telsey Advisory Group analyst Thomas Eagan. "People were expecting higher domestic affiliate growth and higher ad growth."

U.S. subscribers were up 0.5 percent, but there were declines for its most widely distributed networks, which include Fox News, of about 1.5 percent year over year, James Murdoch said on the analyst call.

James Murdoch

Sexual harassment claims and lawsuits at Fox News, which have led to the departures of its former chair Roger Ailes, network co-president Bill Shine and star anchor Bill O'Reilly, have some investors concerned about the future of the unit.

To settle litigation following the July 2016 resignation of Ailes, the company incurred costs to the tune of $10 million in the quarter, bringing such costs to a total of $45 million in the nine months to March 31, a regulatory filing showed.

James Murdoch expressed confidence to investors on the earnings call that Fox News would continue its ratings dominance.

The British government has asked the UK media regulator Ofcom to assess whether Twenty First Century Fox's $14.5 billion bid to buy the nearly 61 percent of UK-based pay-TV group Sky Plc <SKYB.L that it does not already own is in the public interest.

Excluding some items, Fox earned 54 cents per share for the quarter ended March 31. Analysts on average had expected a profit of 48 cents per share.

Total revenue rose 4.6 percent to $7.56 billion but missed analysts' average estimate of $7.63 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Morning Joe To Trump Spox: You're Not Telling The Truth

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparred with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski over President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the deputy White House press secretary, who is filling in for Sean Spicer during this week's pressers, was asked by MSNBC's Willie Geist to clarify her comments that the investigation into allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election has become "absurd."

“I know that person after person, including your own Joe Scarborough, has said that there is no evidence of collusion here,” Sanders replied.

That prompted Scarborough to jump in. "I said there is no obvious evidence of collusion out there right now and if there were that obvious evidence of collusion it would have already been leaked," he said. "I also said there needs to be in-depth investigations because it probably will take an independent prosecutor to figure out the financial ties between Donald Trump and Russia."
Sanders called their claims an "egregious stretch," while Scarborough accused her of twisting his words.

"We've had almost an entire year that they have spent — the House committees, the Senate committees, the FBI," said Sanders. "Everybody has looked into this and everybody comes to the same conclusion."

Brzezinski interrupted her there to say, "You're actually not telling the truth right now."

Sanders replied, "That's a pretty bold claim."


Fellow White House aide Kellyanne Conway appeared Wednesday morning on CNN, where she also defended Trump to Chris Cuomo after engaging in a tense conversation over Trump's decision the night prior with Anderson Cooper.

Early Wednesday morning, Trump took to Twitter to comment on the firing, saying that both parties will thank him once the dust settles.

NBC Reporter TakesMaxine Waters to Task on Comey Hypocrisy

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that she would have supported Hillary Clinton if she decided to fire James Comey but did not support President Trump’s decision. Waters’ reasoning made little sense to MSNBC’s Peter Alexander, who had to ask Waters for clarification multiple times during an interview on MSNBC.

According to NTKNetwork, MSNBC played a clip from earlier this year when Waters said FBI Director Comey “has no credibility” following a closed-door session with him.

MSNBC’s Peter Alexander asked Waters if she supports President Trump’s decision to fire Comey, given that Waters had previously said she has no faith in Comey.

“No, I do not necessarily support the president’s decision,” Waters told Alexander, citing President Trump’s praise for how Comey handled the investigation into Clinton’s emails.

“But congresswoman, I understand in the past he was praising him, but if you said that FBI Director James Comey had no credibility, wouldn’t you support the fact that the president … made the decision to get rid of him?” Alexander asked Waters.

Waters told Alexander that is not the case, because FBI Director Comey was investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which Waters believes will lead to Trump’s impeachment.

Alexander followed up by asking Waters if she thinks it would have been better to leave in place the FBI director, who Waters had previously said had no credibility, to conduct such an investigation.

Waters dodged the question, redirecting the conversation to how President Trump had said earlier he had confidence in Comey.



Alexander then asked Waters if she would have recommended that Hillary Clinton fire James Comey, had Clinton won the election.

“Well, let me tell you something. If [Clinton] had won the White House, I believe that given what [Comey] did to her, and what he tried to do, she should have fired him. Yes,” Waters responded forcefully.

“So [Clinton] should have fired [Comey], but [Trump] shouldn’t have fired [Comey]?” Alexander asked Waters. “This is why I’m confused.”

“You’re not confused,” Waters responded.

Alexander said that he is confused, before Waters proceeded to give another confusing answer.

Comey Firing: Colbert Gets Unexpected Audience Reaction

Stephen Colbert

James Comey’s firing was no laughing matter to Stephen Colbert — but his audience thought otherwise.

The funnyman appeared flummoxed Tuesday night by his “Late Show” crowd’s jubilant reaction to the news that President Trump gave the FBI director a pink slip.

“Huge story that broke just minutes ago, less than 10 minutes ago. FBI Director James Comey has just been fired by Donald Trump,” Colbert said on the show.

“Huge, huge Donald Trump fans here tonight,” said the fierce Trump critic, who explained that the president owed Comey a debt of gratitude for helping him win the White House.

The crowd apparently viewed the top lawman’s demise as great news, after he angered Democrats by announcing in late October that emails related to Hillary Clinton had been found, the Free Beacon reported.



Colbert went on to tell his audience that Comey was leading an FBI probe into possible ties between the Russians and Trump’s campaign.

And when he said that Comey was axed at the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the people booed — much to Colbert’s obvious satisfaction.

Analysts Talk ESPN With Bob Iger

Disney chief Robert Iger was peppered with questions from Wall Street analysts on Tuesday about the Mouse House’s embattled ESPN property, according to The NYPost.

During a TV interview, the usually upbeat, vigorous-looking Iger appeared a bit thinner and wearier as he was forced to play defense regarding the powerful and still highly profitable sports franchise — accepting ratings declines at ESPN’s flagship “SportsCenter” show and suggesting that over-the-top online offerings were better than traditional cable, satellite and telecom pay-TV technology.

“They’re more user-friendly, more mobile-friendly … more attractive to a younger generation of consumers, ” the 66-year-old CEO said.

Iger also suggested he should get some credit for being honest about the cracks in pay-TV subscriber numbers two years ago.

To be sure, in August 2015, when Iger conceded “some subscriber losses” at ESPN — the first cracks in the sports network’s seemingly impenetrable business model — Wall Street investors saw it as a worrisome sign for the whole sector, which sank 9 percent on the news.

Well, the worry is back on Wall Street. Disney stock was down 2.6 percent in after-hours trading, to $109.18, after the Burbank, Calif., company reported operating profits at its cable networks — its most profitable business, with operating profit margins at 44 percent — slipped 3 percent.

A half-million consumers dropped video packages from traditional providers in the three-month period ended April 1.

Iger aimed to calm fears about the turbulence in ESPN’s traditional distribution model by explaining that the sports giant has deals with new online-only packages to take up the slack.

Iger said that, by the end of 2017, ESPN will launch a direct-to-consumer streaming product that may have specific sports or be tailored to regions or be as long as a season.

Analysts have been laser-focused on ESPN’s declining subscriber counts. According to Nielsen, ESPN is currently distributed in 86.9 million households, down from 89.8 million during May 2016.

Ryan Seacrest 'In Advanced Talks' About Idol Hosting

Kelly Ripa is not over the moon about ABC acquiring “American Idol” after announcing Ryan Seacrest as her new “Live” co-host, reports PageSix at The NYPost.

“She doesn’t want a repeat of the Michael Strahan situation. It’s like ABC is once again diluting the attention on ‘Live.’ She wants to make sure her show is Ryan’s first priority, not ‘Idol,’ ” a source told us.

On Tuesday, ABC announced it was reviving the hit talent-competition show a year after it completed a successful 15-season run on Fox.

The network has yet to announce Seacrest as the host. A source close to the media mogul said he’s still mulling it over. And although Seacrest played dumb about the “Idol” announcement on-air, insiders say the gig is a big part of his deal.

Sources have told Page Six it’s been a rough week for Ripa, but others insist she’s “100-percent onboard” with Seacrest and “Idol.”

“Kelly is in the loop. She had approval over the co-host, so Ryan was her first choice. It was a very calculated decision by the network and by her. Everyone is thrilled. They’ve known each other 15 years . . . They really are friends,” an insider said.

Another insider said “Idol” will air Sunday nights to accommodate Seacrest’s schedule, which also includes hosting his daily radio show on KIIS 102.7 FM in Los Angeles.

WWOne Releases U2: The Joshua Tree Special

Westwood One is celebrating the 30th anniversary of U2’s timeless fifth album, The Joshua Tree, by presenting U2: The Joshua Tree Special, a two-hour program airing this weekend, May 13 and 14, on more than 100 radio stations. This special will air on legendary stations like KLOS-FM/Los Angeles, WLUP-FM/Chicago, KFOG-FM/San Francisco, WROR-FM/Boston, KSHE-FM/St. Louis, WIYY-FM/Baltimore, and KQRS/Milwaukee. This exclusive musical event is presented by Farmers Insurance®.

Matt Pinfield, renowned KFOG/San Francisco morning man and host of the nationally-syndicated 2Hours with Matt Pinfield, interviewed U2’s Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen, Jr. for the special. The inspirations and stories behind these classic songs and the band's first experiences playing them live are among many intimate and exclusive insights from the band that fans will hear regarding the writing, recording, and reissue of this landmark album and the upcoming Joshua Tree Tour.

Mike Pinfield

Pinfield, also the former host of 120 Minutes on MTV, has a long and unique history with U2. "It was really great to catch up with Bono, The Edge, Larry, and Adam again,” he said. “It was amazing to discuss everything surrounding The Joshua Tree with the guys. Over the course of our 30+ year friendship, I've seen them live many times and I think fans are in for something special on this 30th-anniversary tour. It will be magical."

"Farmers is proud to be a part of this momentous special and excited to bring these intimate stories to fans across the country," said Leesa Eichberger, Head of Brand Marketing at Farmers Insurance®.

U2 continues to be one of the biggest and best-selling acts of all time. More than one million Joshua Tree Tour tickets were sold within the first 24 hours on sale. Each night, U2 will play the album in full, including the first live performances of the song “Red Hill Mining Town.” The band will stop in North America and Europe and headline the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June. Noel Gallagher is opening shows for the European dates. US opening acts include Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, and OneRepublic.

The Joshua Tree sold more than 35 million copies and won the band “Album of The Year” and “Best Rock Performance” at the 1987 GRAMMY Awards -- the first of what has become a record-breaking run of GRAMMY wins. It catapulted U2 to one of the most legendary bands in the world. The album features hit singles, “With or Without You,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” and “Where The Streets Have No Name.”

Radio stations interested in airing this exclusive broadcast should contact Neal Bird at nbird@westwoodone.com  or (310) 840-4207.