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Profile - Big City Radio, Inc. (AMEX:YFM)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
11 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Phone: (914) 592-1071
Fax: (914) 592-7451
Employees (last reported count): 179
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Broadcasting & Cable TV
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 88%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 7,000  shares
 · one insider sell; 1,000  shares
·Institutional: 3% (24% of float)
(11 institutions)
·Net Inst. Selling: 14.0K shares (+3.34%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Big City Radio, Inc. acquires radio broadcast properties in or adjacent to major metropolitan markets and utilizes a variety of engineering techniques and low-cost, ratings-driven operating strategies to develop these properties into successful metropolitan radio stations. The Company applies a variety of broadcast engineering techniques to the radio broadcast properties it acquires, including Synchronized Total Market Coverage (STMC). STMC consists of acquiring two or more stations that broadcast on the same frequency and simulcasting their signals to achieve broad coverage of a targeted metropolitan market. In addition to STMC, the Company intends to employ other broadcast engineering techniques to enter major metropolitan markets at attractive valuations. The Company owns station groups in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Phoenix.
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Financial Summary
YFM acquires and operates radio broadcast properties in or adjacent to major metropolitan markets. As of 12/99, the Company owned three stations in Los Angeles, four in NY, six in Chicago and four in Phoenix. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues fell 12% to $10.1 million. Net loss rose 3% to $16.5 million. Results reflect lower revenues from the New York Stations and the Chicago Stations, partially offset by the absence of a $550 thousand station acquisition agreement abandonment cost.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Stuart Subotnick, 59
Chairman
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Charles Fernandez, 39
Pres, CEO, Director
$450K
Paul Thomson, 44
CFO, VP, Treasurer
268K
Silvia Kessel, 50
Exec. VP
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David Persing, 43
Exec. VP, Gen. Counsel, Sec., Director
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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Statistics at a Glance -- AMEX:YFMAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 27-Dec-2000
$1.00 
Recent Price$2.25 
52-Week High
on 9-Feb-2001
$5.00 
Beta0.02 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)5,545 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)7,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-44.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-25.7%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$32.6M
Shares Outstanding14.5M
Float1.80M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$4.38 
Earnings (ttm)-$2.19 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.53 
Sales (ttm)$1.55 
Cash (mrq)$0.09 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.45 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$22.4M
EBITDA (ttm)-$7.58M
Income available to common (ttm)-$31.7M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating Margin (ttm)-55.9%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-24.43%
Return on EquityN/A 
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.60 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$1.35M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short4,000 
Percent of Float0.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
4,000 
Short Ratio0.80 
Daily Volume5,000 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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