Subsequent Events	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events	Note 14. Subsequent Events In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the global novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. While the pandemic began to negatively impact our businesses in late March 2020, the overall impact of the pandemic on our financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was not material. However, subsequent to March 31, 2020, we have experienced a rapid deterioration in our business results, particularly in our radio operations, which are highly dependent on the economy of New York City and the surrounding areas, which have been amongst the areas hardest hit by the pandemic thus far. This deterioration was caused by many advertisers cancelling their orders and an overall reduction in new advertising orders. The full extent of the impact is not known at this point, including our ability to collect amounts owed to us relating to advertisements that have already been aired and invoiced to customers, as the scale and severity of the outbreak, coupled with the response from federal, state and local governments, is still unknown. On April 22, 2020, MediaCo and Emmis entered into a certain Loan Proceeds Participation Agreement (the “LPPA”) pursuant to which (i) Emmis agreed to use certain of the proceeds of the loan Emmis received pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program under Division A, Title I of the CARES Act to pay certain wages of employees leased to MediaCo pursuant to the Employee Leasing Agreement, between Emmis and MediaCo (ii) Emmis agreed to waive up to $1.5 million in reimbursement obligations of MediaCo to Emmis under the Employee Leasing Agreement to the extent that the PPP Loan is forgiven, and (iii) MediaCo agreed to promptly pay Emmis an amount equal to 31.56% of the amount of the PPP Loan, if any, that Emmis is required to repay, up to the amount of the reimbursement obligations forgiven under (ii) above. Standard General L.P., on behalf of all of the funds for which it serves as an investment advisor, agreed to guaranty MediaCo’s obligations under the LPPA.

Subsequent Events

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Note 14. Subsequent Events

In March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the global novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. While the pandemic began to negatively impact our businesses in late March 2020, the overall impact of the pandemic on our financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was not material. However, subsequent to March 31, 2020, we have experienced a rapid deterioration in our business results, particularly in our radio operations, which are highly dependent on the economy of New York City and the surrounding areas, which have been amongst the areas hardest hit by the pandemic thus far. This deterioration was caused by many advertisers cancelling their orders and an overall reduction in new advertising orders. The full extent of the impact is not known at this point, including our ability to collect amounts owed to us relating to advertisements that have already been aired and invoiced to customers, as the scale and severity of the outbreak, coupled with the response from federal, state and local governments, is still unknown.

On April 22, 2020, MediaCo and Emmis entered into a certain Loan Proceeds Participation Agreement (the “LPPA”) pursuant to which (i) Emmis agreed to use certain of the proceeds of the loan Emmis received pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program under Division A, Title I of the CARES Act to pay certain wages of employees leased to MediaCo pursuant to the Employee Leasing Agreement, between Emmis and MediaCo (ii) Emmis agreed to waive up to $1.5 million in reimbursement obligations of MediaCo to Emmis under the Employee Leasing Agreement to the extent that the PPP Loan is forgiven, and (iii) MediaCo agreed to promptly pay Emmis an amount equal to 31.56% of the amount of the PPP Loan, if any, that Emmis is required to repay, up to the amount of the reimbursement obligations forgiven under (ii) above. Standard General L.P., on behalf of all of the funds for which it serves as an investment advisor, agreed to guaranty MediaCo’s obligations under the LPPA.