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Jim Carnegie, Editor & Publisher

Transactions: 8/27/07-8/31/07

Radio trading took advantage of its final August opportunity to break through the 10M-per-week barrier, but it wasn't able to get all the way to 20M, although it came close. Three small television transactions just about evened out the weekly action between the two media. A big bulge in the number of stations traded was the result of a dispute settlement between two noncommercial religious broadcasters, including numerous CPs, to which we did not attempt to attach an estimated value.

	Total	Mkts 1-50	Mkts 51-100	Mkts >100	Unrated
AMs	6	1	0	2	3
FMs	40	0	0	11	29
TVs	3	1	0	2	0
Total	49	2	0	15	32

Type of deal	Deals	Stns	Value
Radio, 1 mkt	8	19	18.425M
TV, 1 mkt	43	3	16.292M
Rad-TV, 1 mkt	0	0	$0
Radio, multimkt	2	27	650K
TV, multimkt	0	0	$0
Rad-TV, multimkt	0	0	$0
Totals	13	49	35.367M

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