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                                                                     EXHIBIT 5.2


                            BOSE MCKINNEY & EVANS LLP
                            2700 FIRST INDIANA PLAZA
                          135 NORTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET
                           INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46204
                                 (317) 684-5000


June 21, 2001

Emmis Communications Corporation
One Emmis Plaza
40 Monument Circle, Suite 700
Indianapolis, Indiana  46204

Re:      Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-62172)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We are acting as counsel to Emmis Communications Corporation, an Indiana
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the shelf registration by the
Company and Emmis Operating Company, an Indiana corporation (the "Operating
Subsidiary") of $500,000,000 in maximum aggregate offering price of (i) shares
of the Company's Class A Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common
Stock"), (ii) shares of the Company's preferred stock ("Preferred Stock"), (iii)
shares of Preferred Stock represented by depositary shares ("Depositary
Shares"), (iv) debt securities of the Company and the Operating Subsidiary
("Debt Securities"), (v) warrants ("Warrants") of the Company to purchase Common
Stock, Preferred Stock or Debt Securities and (vi) guarantees ("Guarantees") by
the Company of the Operating Subsidiary's Debt Securities or by the Operating
Company of the Company's Debt Securities. The Common Stock, Preferred Stock,
Depositary Shares, Debt Securities, Warrants and Guarantees are the subject of a
Registration Statement (the "Registration Statement") filed by the Company, the
Operating Subsidiary and certain subsidiary guarantors on Form S-3 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

We have examined photostatic copies of the Company's Second Amended and Restated
Articles of Incorporation (the "Articles") and Amended and Restated Bylaws, as
amended to date, resolutions adopted by the board of directors of the Company
and such other documents and instruments as we have deemed necessary to enable
us to render the opinion set forth below. We have assumed the conformity to the
originals of all documents submitted to us as photostatic copies, the
authenticity of the originals of such documents, and the genuineness of all
signatures appearing thereon.

Based upon and subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that:

(1)      The Company has authority pursuant to its Articles to issue up to
         170,000,000 shares of Common Stock. Upon (a) adoption by the board of
         directors of the Company of a resolution in form and content as
         required by applicable law and (b) issuance and delivery of such shares
         in the manner contemplated by the Registration Statement and the
         applicable prospectus supplement and by such resolution, and payment of
         legal consideration for such shares in an amount determined by the
         board of




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         directors under Indiana law to be adequate at the time of sale, such
         shares of Common Stock will be legally issued, fully paid, and
         nonassessable.

(2)      The Company has authority pursuant to its Articles to issue up to
         10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock. Upon (a) due establishment of a
         series of Preferred Stock in accordance with the Articles and
         applicable law, (b) adoption by the board of directors of the Company
         of a resolution in form and content as required by applicable law and
         (c) issuance and delivery of such shares in the manner contemplated by
         the Registration Statement and the applicable prospectus supplement and
         by such resolution, and payment of legal consideration for such shares
         in an amount determined by the board of directors under Indiana law to
         be adequate at the time of sale, such shares of Preferred Stock will be
         legally issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

We do not hold ourselves out as being conversant with the laws of any
jurisdiction other than those of the United States and the State of Indiana and,
therefore, this opinion is limited to the laws of those jurisdictions. Our
opinions are rendered only with respect to the laws, and the rules, regulations
and orders under them, that are currently in effect.

We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption "Legal Matters" in
the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent,
we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is
required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933.

Very truly yours,

BOSE McKINNEY & EVANS LLP