Clear Channel Incorporated companies include 1200+ U.S. radio stations, 40 TV stations, worldwide outdoor advertising, concerts and other major entertainment events and tours, ...
Clear Channel has bought up 1200+ U.S. radio station licenses and boasts that it "provides advertisers with the reach of 110 million radio listeners nationally with local targeting opportunities."
1200+ station licenses have been taken over so far, in just a few years. This greatly concentrates control of U.S. broadcasting. Local needs, artists, and preferrences are ignored. Clear Channel has staged its own pro-war rallies, to counter news about huge worldwide antiwar demonstrations. Main management is all done at the San Antonio, Texas, home office, not at local communities. Remotely-programmed stations fail to give local information, even about catastrophic emergencies. Clear Channel blacklisted the Dixie Chicks' music nationally because they spoke against President Bush. Clear Channel can suddenly switch stations from popular formats if its research says greater profit may be possible with a new format. Talk host rant against foreigners and women. Clear Channel lobbies Congress and the FCC against media diversity protection. ...
Chicago additional issues
Get out of Chicago! Clear Channel must give up all of its Chicago radio licenses. It has proven it will abuse any license with which it would be entrusted. Clear Channel has cut Chicago station staffs drastically; all six Clear Channel stations are now controlled from a single office. Main management is done far away in Texas. Anti-labor policies. ...
Chicago FM 93.9, WLIT-FM. U.S. license file details, FCC.
Chicago FM 96.5, WNUA-FM. U.S. license file details, FCC.
Chicago FM 102.7, WVAZ-FM. U.S. license file details, FCC.
A Chicago African-American committee says the firing of manager Marv Dyson shows Clear Channel is not in touch. Chicago Sun-Times, June 2004.
Chicago FM 103.5, WKSC-FM. U.S. license file details, FCC.
Chicago FM 107.5, WGCI-FM. U.S. license file details, FCC.
A Chicago African-American committee says the firing of manager Marv Dyson shows Clear Channel is not in touch. Chicago Sun-Times, June 2004.
Chicago AM 1390, WGRB-AM (was WGCI-AM). U.S. license file details, FCC.
A Chicago African-American committee says the firing of manager Marv Dyson shows Clear Channel is not in touch. Chicago Sun-Times, June 2004.
St. Louis additional ISSUES and GENERAL INFORMATION
Give local music a chance! CC sells wars!
A clearchannel.com search for St. Louis found that the city itself just gave CC its top business 2005 award, apparently because it is homogenizing media under its right-wing control. I wonder, too, if some of the people fired may have labor issues.
"St. Louis, MO - Clear Channel-St. Louis was recently named Business of the Year during the Mayor’s Annual Business Celebration luncheon." http://www.clearchannel.com/Local_Spirit/St%20Louis_CCBusinessOfTheYear.htm.
CC also controls major entertainment events, tours, concerts, and a lot of outdoor advertising (billboards).
A thought. National Conference on Media Reform (May 13-15) participants already know CC as a major target media monopoly. If their new 'only-one-now' office is handy, it would be worthy for demonstrations.
General CC information in St.Louis:
The Columbia Journalism Review lists CC's empire's parts to date. A page search there for "louis" finds 6 St. Louis radio licenses:
Maybe all 6 Clear Channel radio licenses in metro St. Louis have just recently been consolidated under the control of a single General Manager at a single office ... General Manager: LEE ARMSTRONG CLEAR Phone: 314-333-8000 Fax: 314-333-8300 Address: 1001 Highlands Plaza Drive West Suite 100 City/ State/ Zip: Saint Louis, MO 63110. Search for "saint louis" at clearchannel.com. Near Forest Park. Map.
(CC also has 6 radio licenses for Chicago and in 2004 closed all but one office.)
GENERAL INFORMATION about Clear Channel Incorporated in Chicago
Licenses for radio broadcasting services to Chicago (formats, coverage, websites)