Broadcast Workouts

Media Services Group assists lenders in the evaluation of their loan portfolios. We work with institutions to appraise collateral coverage and develop exit strategies, and with broadcasters to guide them through difficult balance sheet problems and turnarounds.

Our team of professionals brings to the table a unique blend of:

•  Asset management experience (including Trusts and Receiverships)
       Most of our professionals serve or have served as receivers
       Operating experience in all market sizes
       Five of our partners are currently FCC licensees
•  Brokerage experience
       Most of our partners have spent over 20 years as brokers
       Projects led by senior professionals (you don’t get the “B” Team)
       Experienced negotiators
•  National reach/regional focus
       11 offices dispersed throughout the country
• Station valuation expertise     
       Our valuation work is known throughout the industry
       Six graduate degrees within the Company
       Ability to value underlying assets and loan portfolios
• New Media Expertise

We can turnkey a problem into a solution: 

• FCC and FAA compliance experience
• Cash/Financial controls
• Budgeting, taxes, and accounting
• Personnel, payroll and staffing
• Technical improvements and upgrades
• Streaming and online initiatives
• Complete transparency in reporting to courts, lenders and equity investors

We know how to stop the decline, stabilize the operation, preserve the assets, and liquidate them for top dollar in an orderly fashion.

We’re uniquely qualified to move individual stations, markets, and entire companies quickly, efficiently, and at top dollar:

• Contacts throughout the broadcasting industry, private equity and lenders
• Focus on the middle markets
• Large number of geographically dispersed offices
• Pioneering use of online data rooms (enabling excellent transaction process reporting to stakeholders)
• Reputation for honest, straightforward, and discreet work 

Most of us have 20+ years of brokerage experience; all of us have been or are broadcasters.  When you hire us, senior professionals lead the charge.