Clear Chanel Communications

Clear Chanel Communications is a group of American media whose head office is located at San Antonio, Texas.

Short history

Origins

Clear Chanel Communications was created in 1972, by Lowry Mays.

In the beginning its activity is urban furniture like JC Decaux. However one day, a customer texan of ad spaces Clear Chanel was put in bankruptcy, and the group recovered two radios in payment of the debts. The chairman then saw possible synergies between radio publicity and urban publicity and started to repurchase many stations.

Since 2004

In 2004, Clear Chanel had 1.200 radio stations and 30 television broadcast stations on the American territory.

Its coupled advertizing capacity with the force of its media enable him today to impose its first parts to the organizers independent of concerts.

Clear Chanel tries today the same strategy in Europe and Asia, and for this reason starts to develop its principal activity of urban furniture in these zones: JC Decaux is from now on number 2 in Belgium, and loses market shares in the rest of the world (in June 2005, it simultaneously lost Shanghai and the renewal of the CUDL).

Into 2005 Clear Chanel Communications was divided into 3 separate companies. Clear Chanel Communications a diffuser of radio, Clear Chanel Outdoor for urban publicity and Live Nation, organizers of events and spectacles. The Mays family keeps the effective control of the 3 companies and holds stations in the executive teams (Mays Mark like CEO of the radio and DC Outdoor and Randall Mays like chair of Live Nation).

Discusses presented by the organization altermondialist Attac

According to the organization Altermondialiste Attac Clear Chanel became a powerful group with a Turnover of 8 billion euros thriving thanks to the deregulations introduced since the Reagan years, which allow increasingly thorough concentrations. The lobby shows in 2004, via its Internet site, the financial group to support the America policy of the administration George Bush in her “colonial policy” and calls with the Boycott this multinational.

The list of inappropriate songs

The shortly after the attacks of the September 11th, 2001, the network Clear Chanel drew up a list of songs whose diffusion was considered to be inappropriate. This list, range with the knowledge of the public by the independent media Hits Daily Doubles in October 2001, is considered to be authentic by Snopes, media specialized in the urban legends, person in charge of an investigation on this subject. Containing 166 references, the list comprises negative songs or catastrophists ( Eve off Destruction by Barry McGuire, but also all the discography of Rage Against the Machine), of songs comprising of allusions to the Middle East ( Walk Like year Egyptian , by the Bangles, or Rock in the Casbah , by The Clash), but also of frankly pacifist songs such as Imagine (John Lennon) or What has Beautiful World (Louis Armstrong).

Electoral billposting

Clear Chanel was in charge of the electoral billposting for the French presidential elections of 2007. However, this work of posting was not made in certain communes, in particular in Guadeloupe.

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