Salem Media Group, Inc. Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

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- Document and Entity Information
Financial Statements
Notes to Financial Statements
Accounting Policies
- SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Policies)
Notes Tables
Notes Details

AMORTIZABLE INTANGIBLE ASSETS (Summary of Significant Classes of Amortizable Intangible Assets) (Details)

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AMORTIZABLE INTANGIBLE ASSETS (Summary of Significant Classes of Amortizable Intangible Assets) (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	$ 46,525	$ 36,726
Accumulated Amortization	(34,130)	(27,933)
Net	12,395us-gaap_FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsNet	8,793us-gaap_FiniteLivedIntangibleAssetsNet
Customer lists and contracts [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	19,910	17,170
Accumulated Amortization	(16,558)	(13,830)
Net	3,352	3,340
Domain and brand names [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	15,465	12,700
Accumulated Amortization	(9,722)	(8,124)
Net	5,743	4,576
Favorable and assigned leases [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	2,379	2,358
Accumulated Amortization	(1,795)	(1,701)
Net	584	657
Subscriber base and lists [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	4,302	1,856
Accumulated Amortization	(2,671)	(1,856)
Net	1,631
Author relationships [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	2,245	563
Accumulated Amortization	(1,379)	(563)
Net	866
Non-compete agreements [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	888	743
Accumulated Amortization	(669)	(550)
Net	219	193
Other amortizable intangible assets [Member]
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items]
Cost	1,336	1,336
Accumulated Amortization	(1,336)	(1,309)
Net		$ 27

- Definition

Accumulated amount of amortization of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life.

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