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Acquisitions and Dispositions - Schedule of Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed (Details) (USD $)
12 Months Ended 0 Months Ended 8 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2014
Jun. 16, 2014
Feb. 13, 2015
Jun. 10, 2014
Feb. 13, 2015
Feb. 28, 2015
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Goodwill, Acquired During Period $ 61,148,000us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod          
Digonex            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Cash   456,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedCashAndEquivalents
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Cash Acquired from Acquisition   (456,000)us-gaap_CashAcquiredFromAcquisition
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
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Other current and noncurrent assets   9,000emms_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredandLiabilitiesAssumedOtherCurrentandNoncurrentAssets
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Goodwill, Acquired During Period   2,753,000us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod
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Other intangibles   6,180,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibleAssetsOtherThanGoodwill
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Payments to Acquire Businesses, Net of Cash Acquired   2,544,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   (462,000)us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedCurrentLiabilities
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Other current liabilities and noncurrent liabilities   (1,139,000)emms_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredandLiabilitiesAssumedOtherCurrentandNoncurrentLiabilities
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Long-term debt   (3,600,000)us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedNoncurrentLiabilitiesLongTermDebt
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
Business Combination, Acquisition of Less than 100 Percent, Noncontrolling Interest, Fair Value   (1,197,000)us-gaap_BusinessCombinationAcquisitionOfLessThan100PercentNoncontrollingInterestFairValue
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= emms_DigonexMember
       
Cash paid   3,000,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesGross
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_DigonexMember
       
WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM            
Business Acquisition [Line Items]            
Business Combination, Recognized Identifiable Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed, Current Assets, Other       37,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedCurrentAssetsOther
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
   
Property and equipment       4,054,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedPropertyPlantAndEquipment
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
   
Indefinite-lived intangibles       69,019,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIndefiniteLivedIntangibleAssets
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
   
Goodwill, Acquired During Period       58,395,000us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod
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Other intangibles       2,469,000us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedIntangibleAssetsOtherThanGoodwill
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
   
Other current liabilities       (512,000)us-gaap_BusinessCombinationRecognizedIdentifiableAssetsAcquiredAndLiabilitiesAssumedCurrentLiabilitiesOther
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
   
Payments to Acquire Businesses, Net of Cash Acquired     76,000,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired
/ us-gaap_BusinessAcquisitionAxis
= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
55,000,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired
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= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
81,563,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired
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133,462,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesNetOfCashAcquired
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= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
Total payments to acquire a business including interest on the accretion of discounted liabilities           136,563,000emms_Totalpaymentstoacquireabusinessincludinginterestontheaccretionofdiscountedliabilities
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= emms_WBLSFMandWLIBAMMember
Payments of interest expense related o accretion of acquisition liabilities         (3,101,000)emms_Paymentsofinterestexpenserelatedoaccretionofacquisitionliabilities
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Cash paid       $ 55,000,000us-gaap_PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesGross
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