Private company
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American media company
NRG Media, LLC is a media company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was founded in 2005.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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NRG Media, LLC is a media company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and was founded in 2005.2
NRG Media was founded on March 1, 2005, as a result of a merger of NewRadio Group and the radio assets of Waitt Media. At its inception it was the seventh largest radio company in the USA. As of July 2026, NRG owns and operates 20 radio stations across the midwestern states.
Mary Quass is NRG Media's President/CEO. Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio (MIW) Group named Mary Quass the 2017 MIW Trailblazer.
From Wikipedia’s article on NRG Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.
| Year | PPP loans | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $2.0M | $2.0M |
Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA5. Matched to this company by name and state.
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
