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Big World: How Clear Channel “Programs America”. Chapter 4-4 Pgs.106-114 Antoinette Lopez. Clear Channel’s Big Beginning. 1996- Telecommunication Act is passed Media companies are now allowed to own up to 8 radio stations per market & as many stations nationally as can acquire (buy). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Big World: How Clear
Channel “Programs
America”Chapter 4-4Pgs.106-114Antoinette Lopez
Clear Channel’s Big Beginning
1996- Telecommunication Act is passed Media companies are now allowed to
own up to 8 radio stations per market & as many stations nationally as can acquire (buy).
Previously 2 radio stations per market and only 40 stations nationally.
Results: Unprecedented consolidation within the radio industry.
Clear Channel’s Big Beginning
1972- Clear Channel began with one station, started by a San Antonio investment banker, L. Lowry Mays and Red McCombs.
1996- Telecommunications Act passes and more than 1,000 mergers occurred that year.
Result: A remaining 4 dominating Companies, Clear Channel rules.
Clear Channel Ownership
Clear Channel Stations:
Z100 K-BIG KISS POWER FOX ZONE
All Nationwide stations bearing
these names take their orders
from San Antonio, where Clear Chanel’s Headquarters
remain.
Clear Channel Ownership 4,832 Radio Stations 4,833 broadcast TV stations Over 400 stations abroad More live-music venues than any other competitor
(selling more tickets than all competitors combined)
70% live-music intake King of “Outside Advertising” (billboards), owning
7,312 total Coast-to-coast reaching roughly 200 million
people- 70% of the public
Negatives Decrease in Independent Stations Decrease in songs, sounds, formats, and
opinions for listener to choose Musicians limiting tours to clear channel owned
venues Increased ticket prices Rebellious Musicians suffer little to no airplay Nearly reporting-free radio (syndication of Rush
Limbaugh to most stations) Increased Commercials, and skyrocketing ad
prices over the affordability of small businesses.
Positives Creation of new popular formats Promotion of new ideas “Free Market of Ideas”- where ratings are seriously
tracked, mapped, and responded to. Embracing the “Giving the people what they want
Approach” Does not posses a specific ideology Does not posses a specific Aesthetic Opinion Accomplishing the “miraculous task” of satisfying
the musical tastes of most people. Overall embodies democracy
FCC says: Clear channel is currently being treated as an
experiment Giant, but potentially unstable-”Reliant on Muscle
than on financial finesse” Telecommunications Act of ’96 was passed to
resuscitate suffocating stations, ½ of which were losing money.
“I don’t think there was anyone in Washington in 1996 who could’ve imagined that a few years later there’d be ONE company owning over 1,200 stations.”- Michael Copps, FCC board member
“We should never give anyone that much power” - Copps
Question:
How does Clear Channel personally
affect your life? Positive? Negative?