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2 unusual facts about Emmis Communications


Emmis Communications

WQHT-FM provoked a controversy in January 2005, a month after the Asian tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, by playing the Tsunami song entitled "USA for Indonesia", a parody sung to the 1985 tune "We Are the World." Listeners, politicians and civil rights groups protested in front of the station.

The company owns Rádio Expres in Slovakia and Sláger Rádió in Hungary, however Emmis Communications' Hungarian national radio station, Sláger, was taken off the air on November 18, 2009 because of the expiration of their broadcasting license.


Myles Miller

Myles Nickolas Miller is head of digital for Emmis Communications / Hot 97.


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