Company: UONE
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001041657-25-000013
Chunk: 109

Company: URBAN ONE, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 109
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writers and music publishers, have been traditionally represented by PRO's, such as the ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. The market for rights relating to musical works is changing rapidly. Songwriters and music publishers have withdrawn from the traditional PRO's, particularly ASCAP and BMI, and new entities, such as GMR, have been formed to represent rights holders. These organizations negotiate fees with copyright users, collect royalties and distribute them to the rights holders. These licenses periodically come up for renewal, and as a result certain of our PRO licenses are currently the subject of renewal negotiations that could impact, and potentially increase, our music license fees. In addition, there is no guarantee that additional PRO's will not emerge, which could impact, and in some circumstances increase, our royalty rates and negotiation costs.

The Radio Music Licensing Committee (the “RMLC”), of which we are a represented participant, has negotiated and entered into, on behalf of participating members, an Interim License Agreement with the ASCAP effective January 1, 2022 and to remain in effect until the date on which the parties reach agreement as to, or there is court determination of, new interim or final fees, terms, and conditions of a new license for the five year period commencing on January 1, 2022 and concluding on December 31, 2026. On February 7, 2022, the RMLC and GMR reached a settlement and achieved certain conditions which effectuate a four-year license to which the Company is a party for the period April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2026. The license includes an optional three-year extended term that the Company may effectuate prior to the end of the initial term. 

On November 1, 2024, RMLC announced that it had won a ruling in its rate determination proceedings with SESAC with respect to fees paid by RMLC-represented stations. The determination sets the rates for the period January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2026, and is retroactive in its application. RMLC-Represented Stations that have paid SESAC interim license fees at higher previous rates may receive a true-up adjustment in order to bring rates into conformity with the now-final rates. This ruling did not have a material impact on the Company's operations. The RMLC is currently negotiating with BMI.

Reach Media Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests 

Beginning on January 1, 2018, the