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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES ON NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of Cash Flow, Supplemental Disclosures |
|  |  | Years Ended December 31,
|  |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
|  |  | (amounts in thousands)
Operating Activities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Barter revenues |  | $ | 10,898 |  | $ | 4,700 |  | $ | 4,002
| Barter expenses |  | $ | 9,440 |  | $ | 4,789 |  | $ | 4,258
| Transition services costs incurred in the integration of CBS Radio |  | $ | 1,917 |  | $ | - |  | $ | -
| Reduction to the transition services asset |  | $ | (1,917) |  | $ | - |  | $ | -
Financing Activities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Increase in paid-in capital from the issuance of RSUs |  | $ | 35,628 |  | $ | 10,381 |  | $ | 9,045
| Decrease in paid-in capital from the forfeiture of RSUs |  |  | (1,117) |  |  | (280) |  |  | (709)
| Net paid-in capital of RSUs issued (forfeited) |  | $ | 34,511 |  | $ | 10,101 |  | $ | 8,336
| Perpetual cumulative convertible preferred stock issued |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| in connection with an acquisition |  | $ | - |  | $ | - |  | $ | 27,500
| Dividend accrued on perpetual cumulative convertible preferred stock |  | $ | - |  | $ | 452 |  | $ | 339
| Debt assumed in a business combination or merger |  | $ | 1,387,500 |  | $ | - |  | $ | -
Investing Activities |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Cash acquired through consolidation (deconsolidation) of a VIE |  | $ | (302) |  | $ | 302 |  | $ | -
| Noncash additions to property and equipment and intangibles |  | $ | 2,213 |  | $ | 833 |  | $ | -
| Net radio station assets given up in a market |  | $ | 124,500 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 59,000
| Net radio station assets acquired in a market |  | $ | 124,500 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 59,000
| Radio station assets acquired through the issuance of perpetual |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| cumulative convertible preferred stock |  | $ | - |  | $ | - |  | $ | 27,500
| Fair value of net assets acquired through the issuance of common stock |  | $ | 1,168,848 |  | $ | - |  | $ | -

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