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	Clear Channel Communications Inc. profile and media properties - American media companies at MediaOwners.com
		Clear Channel Communications is a public company (NYSE: CCU) founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs.
		In November 2006, Clear Channel agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by Bain Capital Partners LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP.
		Clear Channel owns or operates 151,603 outdoor advertising billboards in the United States and 671,977 international outdoor advertising billboards.
	www.mediaowners.com /company/clearchannel.html (315 words)

	Clear Channel Communications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clear Channel, like other broadcasters both large and small, utilizes technology (known as Prophet) that allows a DJ from anywhere in the country to sound as if he or she is broadcasting from anywhere else in the country, on any other station.
		Clear Channel was criticized for an incident that occurred in Minot, North Dakota, when a Canadian Pacific Railway train filled with toxic anhydrous ammonia derailed early on the morning of January 18, 2002.
		Clear Channel's contract with Project Billboard only allowed the company to reject ads that were illegal or contrary to public morals; Clear Channel claimed that the image of the bomb was insensitive in New York City, the site of the most devastating of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications (3400 words)

	Clear Channel Communications (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clear Channel founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays wields considerable influence radio broadcasting concert promotion and hosting and advertising in the United States through is The company owns over 1 200 radio stations and over 30 television stations in the United States among other outlets in other countries.
		In 2004 Clear Channel acquired a key patent the process of producing "instant live recordings" which a live performance is recorded directly the sound engineer's console during the show then rapidly burned on CD so that members can buy copies of the show they are leaving the venue.
		Clear Channel's contract Project Billboard only allowed the company to ads that were illegal or contrary to morals; Clear Channel claimed that the image the bomb was insensitive in New York the site of the most devastating of 9/11 terrorist attacks.
	www.freeglossary.com /Clear_Channel_Communications (1842 words)

	Clear Channel
		Clear Channel and its joint venture partners operate more than 240 radio stations in Australia, Mexico and New Zealand programming 20 different formats with more than 17 million listeners weekly and a total of more than 2,000 employees.
		ARN serves its listening audiences, advertising customers and communities of license by specializing in programming to the adult audience between the ages of 25-54 who are the biggest spenders in the Australian economy.
		Clear Channel is no longer in these countries having either sold operations back to partners sold to third parties or exited sales agreements.
	www.clearchannel.com /IntRadio/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1489&p=hidden (0 words)

	Clear Channel Communications: Monopolizing the Airwaves - ReclaimDemocracy.org
		Clear Channel Communications of San Antonio may not be a household name yet, but in less than six years it has rocketed to a place alongside NBC and Gannett as one of the largest media companies in the United States.
		Clear Channel is currently facing antitrust lawsuits from plaintiffs around the country, ranging from an Illinois concert goer concerned with soaring ticket prices to the nation's largest Latino-owned radio company.
		Clear Channel has sold off stations to alleged front companies, which allow Clear Channel to continue operating the properties while also providing an easy way to buy back the stations, should the FCC slacken ownership limits in the future.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /weekly_article/clear_channel_backlash.html (1972 words)

	Clear Channel Communications (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel is very friendly with the Bush family, being a fellow Texan with a background in petroleum interests.
		Another link between Bush and Clear Channel exists between the deal that was made when Bush sold his interest in the professional baseball team, the Texas Rangers, to Tom Hicks, then CEO of AMFM Communications.
		Clear Channel also hasn't balked at directly intervening in the political process in an overtly partisan fashion.
	www.apfn.org /media/clear_channel.htm (896 words)

	City Pages - Clear Channel Rules the World (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clear Channel Communications is perhaps best recognized as the nation's largest radio station owner, with some 1,220 stations in upward of 250 markets nationwide--11 percent of all radio stations in the country--thanks to the deregulation that came with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
		Clear Channel was taken public in 1984, and during the 1990s, its stock went from $4.60 a share in 1993 to $95 a share in 2000.
		Clear Channel argued that the accusation was inadmissible hearsay, but the judge admitted it, ruling that NIPP had provided sufficient evidence that such practices may have occurred.
	www.citypages.com /databank/26/1263/article12961.asp (5063 words)

	Clear Channel Worldwide - SourceWatch
		Clear Channel spokesperson Pam Taylor objected to the list being called a "ban," saying, ""This was an effort to help people be sensitive to the unthinkable environment.
		Clear Channel's [political action committee] contributed 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans.
		Clear Channel later admitted they were behind "Radio Free Ohio." "Once we determined we were going to change the format, we tried to get into the mindset of people who would listen to this new station," said the company's Akron vice president and market manager, Dan Lankford.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Clear_Channel_Communications (1253 words)

	Big radio airs the sound of sameness
		Clear Channel is “the company that made radio unlistenable,” says Bruce Drushel, a Miami University broadcasting professor and assistant chairman of mass communication studies.
		Clear Channel is the first radio company to use a computerized audio network to share news talent with stations, as it does with DJs and jingles.
		Clear Channel and other radio giants are maximizing profits and minimizing expenses with an unprecedented corporate consolidation of sales, promotion, marketing, management, news, contests, formats and talent.
	enquirer.com /editions/2000/03/19/fin_big_radio_airs_sound.html (2726 words)

	USATODAY.com - Clear Channel execs donate more to Bush (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clear Channel, rejecting Howard Stern's claims that he was canned for slamming President Bush, says its radio network does not have a political agenda.
		Clear Channel says it suspended talk-show king Stern from six stations Feb. 24 because of his show's racy content — not because of politics.
		Clear Channel CEO Lowry Mays and his sons led the campaign giving.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2004-03-23-clear_x.htm (535 words)

	Clear Channel Communications (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clear Channel Communications, a media company in the United States of America.
		Clear Channel wields considerable influence in the radio and concert industry in the United States and owns a significant proportion of all commercial FM radio stations in the United States.
		The present chief of the company is Randy Michaels and its headquarters is located in San Antonio, Texas.
	guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/cl/clear_channel_communications.html (137 words)

	Clear Channel's big, stinking deregulation mess - Salon
		Clear Channel Communications, the radio and concert conglomerate so many people love to hate, has a new batch of disgruntled critics to deal with.
		Passage of the Telecom Act paved the way for Clear Channel to expand from 40 stations to 1,225, and in the process, exert unprecedented control over the industry.
		After years of intensive lobbying and with a Federal Communications Commission chairman, Michael Powell, who is widely considered to be thoroughly pro-deregulation, the havoc wrought upon radio by Clear Channel is unexpectedly offering ample proof of what can go wrong with media deregulation.
	dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/2003/02/19/clear_channel_deregulation/index.html (521 words)

	Media Tracker - Media Analysis
		Clear Channel founder and chief executive officer Lowry Mays, 68, checked into a hospital in May to remove a blood clot from his brain and has yet to fully recover.
		Clear Channel’s second quarter profit was $254 million.
		Three years later, they acquired their first “clear channel” station, meaning it was on a frequency reserved exclusively for its own use and broadcast nationwide.
	www.publicintegrity.org /telecom/analysis/CompanyProfile.aspx?HOID=183 (698 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Radio's big bully
		Today, as Clear Channel's guardian of the airwaves, the bombastic exec is among the most powerful, not to mention colorful, men running the music business.
		As the party wound down and the crowd cleared out, two AMFM producers were unexpectedly waved over to the Clear Channel table by Michaels and his friend Kraig Kitchin, who runs Premiere Radio Networks, Clear Channel's powerful syndication arm.
		Clear Channel in particular dominates the Top 40 format (KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, WHTZ and WKTU in New York, KHKS in Dallas, WXKS in Boston, WHYI in Miami, etc.) and controls 60 percent of rock-radio listening.
	archive.salon.com /ent/feature/2001/04/30/clear_channel (992 words)

	Clear Channel
		Clear Channel Communications, Inc. Shareholders Approve Merger with Private Equity Group Co-Led by Bain Capital Partners, LLC And Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. Clear Channel shareholders approved the adoption of the merger agreement with a group led by T.H. Lee Partners, L.P. and Bain Capital Partners, LLC
		The Clear Channel Foundation was set up to help a diverse group of non-profit organizations and to meet the needs of those touched by disaster.
		Learn about the responsibilities of each Clear Channel Board of Directors committee, the standards of conduct and ethics for Clear Channel directors, the standards of conduct and ethics for all Clear Channel employees, the identity and powers of Clear Channel's Presiding Director and about the Shareholder Communication Process.
	www.clearchannel.com /Corporate (0 words)

	Clear Channel Communications Life story @ HillCountryArtists.com (Hill Country Artists) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Note that post-spinoff there is overlap in directors between Clear Channel and Live Nation, specifically: L. Lowry Mays (Director of Live Nation), Mark P. Mays (Chairman of Live Nation) [1]
		Clear-Channel-owned KTVX was the only local television station which refused to air the paid political message of Cindy Sheehan against the war in Iraq [4].
		As well as the website ClearChannelSucks spawned from RadioAid's battle for the ownership of the ClearChannelSucks domain [5], there are a notable amount of bands, and radio hosts, including Howard Stern that actively boycott Clear Channel.
	www.hillcountryartists.com /encyclopedia/Clear_Channel_Communications (2401 words)

	Clear Channel Communications News
		Clear Channel Communications, Inc., is a company that our research team will be tracking over the ensuing weeks.
		Radio conglomerate Clear Channel is being asked to donate $5.7 million to charity as atonement for allowing hip-hop station Power 105.1 to broadcast racist and sexually degrading comments by Troi Torain, better...
		Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays predicts that HD digital radio will take off once the price point for receivers moves closer to $100, and he also says devices like iPods and mobile phones will eventually be able to...
	www.topix.net /com/ccu (699 words)

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		Clear Channel will not be a party to or in any way responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of such products, services, or information, or for ensuring the confidentiality of your credit card information.
	www.fox23news.com /common/privacy/default.aspx (5979 words)

	Critics bring down gay ad - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Mass. - News
		CAMBRIDGE -- Media giant Clear Channel plans today to take down a billboard ad featuring two bare-chested men, wrapped in each other's arms and the American flag, after receiving complaints from local activists opposed to gay rights.
		Clear Channel received about five complaint calls yesterday, Hoffman said.
		Gay.com could, however, pursue legal action against Clear Channel, if it chose to, said Sarah Wunsch, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/28/critics_bring_down_gay_ad (520 words)

	Clear Channel Communications Inc.
		We also believe people can achieve their full potential when they enjoy their work, so it is a priority to provide a workplace where growth, success and fun go hand in hand.
		We further believe the future success of our communities and the industries where we do business is dependent upon the responsibility we feel, the high standards we set and the positive impact our actions have.
		Clear Channel will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other legally-protected status.
	www.clearcareers.com (0 words)

	ipedia.com: Clear Channel Communications Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clear Channel, founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays, wields considerable influence in radio broadcasting, concert promot...
		Clear Channel has purched interest in, or outright acquired companies in a number of media or advertising related industries.
		However, some media critics, as well as smaller business rivals, believe that Clear Channel is using the patent law incorrectly to drive competitors out of business or force them to pay licensing fees for the process.
	www.ipedia.com /clear_channel_communications.html (2070 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Airwaves, Shock Waves
		Clear Channel's PR rep, who asked that her name not be used, denies this charge and says the only change headquarters has made since the war started was to add extra news broadcasts.
		This gave Clear Channel Communications the means to swell from 43 radio stations in 1995, before deregulation, to more than 1,200 now.
		But echoing Clear Channel's local radio station operations manager Schoenwetter, she adds, "It is a public service.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.24.03/censorship-0317.html (1735 words)

	AlterNet: Clear Channel's Big, Stinking Deregulation Mess
		For his part, Clear Channels' Mays, who purchased his first AM radio station in 1972, insisted "the industry is healthier and more robust than ever before," and argued that Clear Channel has simply done what the Telecom Act was supposed to allow broadcasters to do: expand.
		Clear Channel has been forced to devote an increasing amount of money and time in efforts to fix its battered image, particularly inside the Beltway.
		Clear Channel itself stands to lose if the rush toward deregulation is slowed by the company's own actions.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15281 (2434 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the past few months, Salon reporter Eric Boehlert has been tracking the story of Clear Channel Communications, the little-noticed media giant that has quietly taken over the country's radio and concert industries.
		Finally, there is a link to the Clear Channel Web site, on which you can easily find the stations the company operates in your town.
		A dust-up involving Clear Channel and a Blink-182 concert in Cincinnati doesn't seem to be an isolated event.
	www.salon.com /ent/clear_channel (505 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Business: Allegedly Unethical Firms: Clear Channel Communications (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clear Channel Bites - A site that claims why listeners should boycott and be aware of Clear Channel's existence.
		Clear Channel Boycott Petition - Petition to boycott Clear Channel stations due to their inhumane treatment of animals.
		Media Life Magazine: Clear Channel Holds a Knife to Arbitron - Article describes efforts of Clear Channel to leverage their market power in radio brodcasting, to negotiate a better deal with Arbitron.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Business/Allegedly_Unethical_Firms/Clear_Channel_Communications/?tc=1 (274 words)

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