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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below, hereby constitutes and appoints Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Walter Z. Berger, J.
Scott Enright and Norman H. Gurwitz, or any of them, his attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him in any and
all capacities, to sign the annual report of Emmis Communications Corporation on
Form 10-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended
February 29, 2000, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in
connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each
of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may do or
cause to be done by virtue hereto.

Dated:  May 20, 2000                            /s/ Lawrence B. Sorrel
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                                                Lawrence B. Sorrel
















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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below, hereby constitutes and appoints Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Walter Z. Berger, J.
Scott Enright and Norman H. Gurwitz, or any of them, his attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him in any and
all capacities, to sign the annual report of Emmis Communications Corporation on
Form 10-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended
February 29, 2000, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in
connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each
of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may do or
cause to be done by virtue hereto.


Dated:  May 22, 2000                           /s/ Richard A. Leventhal
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                                               Richard A. Leventhal
















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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below, hereby constitutes and appoints Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Walter Z. Berger, J.
Scott Enright and Norman H. Gurwitz, or any of them, his attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him in any and
all capacities, to sign the annual report of Emmis Communications Corporation on
Form 10-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended
February 29, 2000, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in
connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each
of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may do or
cause to be done by virtue hereto.



Dated:  May 23, 2000                              /s/ Doyle L. Rose
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                                                  Doyle L. Rose
















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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below, hereby constitutes and appoints Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Walter Z. Berger, J.
Scott Enright and Norman H. Gurwitz, or any of them, her attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for her in any and
all capacities, to the annual report of Emmis Communications Corporation on Form
10-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended
February 29, 2000, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in
connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each
of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may do or
cause to be done by virtue hereto.


Dated:  May 22, 2000                                    /s/ Susan B. Bayh
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                                                        Susan B. Bayh
















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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below, hereby constitutes and appoints Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Walter Z. Berger, J.
Scott Enright and Norman H. Gurwitz, or any of them, his attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him in any and
all capacities, to sign the annual report of Emmis Communications Corporation on
Form 10-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended
February 29, 2000, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in
connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each
of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may do or
cause to be done by virtue hereto.


Dated:  May 25, 2000                                /s/ Gary L. Kaseff
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                                                    Gary L. Kaseff



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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears
below, hereby constitutes and appoints Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Walter Z. Berger, J.
Scott Enright and Norman H. Gurwitz, or any of them, his attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him in any and
all capacities, to sign the annual report of Emmis Communications Corporation on
Form 10-K under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended
February 29, 2000, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto each of such attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary in
connection with such matters and hereby ratifying and confirming all that each
of such attorneys-in-fact and agents or his substitute or substitutes may do or
cause to be done by virtue hereto.



Dated:  May 25, 2000                                 /s/ Greg A. Nathanson
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                                                     Greg A. Nathanson