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INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of changes in goodwill |
|  | Goodwill Carrying Amount
|  | March 31, |  | December 31,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
|  | (amounts in thousands)
Goodwill balance before cumulative loss |  |  |  |  |
on impairment as of January 1, | $ | 988,056 |  | $ | 158,333
Accumulated loss on impairment as of January 1, |  | (126,056) |  |  | (125,615)
Goodwill beginning balance after cumulative loss |  |  |  |  |
on impairment as of January 1, |  | 862,000 |  |  | 32,718
Loss on impairment during year |  | - |  |  | (441)
Acquisition of radio stations - 2017 Charlotte Acquisition |  |  | - |  |  | 43
Acquisition of radio stations - CBS Radio Merger |  | - |  |  | 820,961
Disposition of goodwill - EMF sale |  |  | - |  |  | (266)
Acquisition of a radio station - Beasley Transaction |  |  | - |  |  | 289
Acquisition of radio stations -iHeartMedia Transaction |  |  | - |  |  | 11,700
Disposition of radio stations - iHeartMedia Transaction |  |  | - |  |  | (14)
Assets held for sale - Bonneville Transaction |  | - |  |  | (2,990)
Measurement period adjustment to acquired goodwill |  | (2,949) |  |  | -
Ending period balance | $ | 859,051 |  | $ | 862,000

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