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Salon.com
May 30, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Tough company Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting employee suits alleging everything from broken contracts to sexual harassment.   |
Salon.com
August 7, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Radio's titan hits the skids After replacing a high-profile exec, Clear Channel, the 800-pound gorilla of the entertainment industry, suddenly faces a lot of banana peels. |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Suit: Clear Channel is an illegal monopoly A tiny Denver promoter is taking the most powerful force in the music industry to court... |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Rock 'n' radio rumble A dust-up involving Clear Channel and a Blink-182 concert in Cincinnati doesn't seem to be an isolated event... |
Salon.com
March 14, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Pay for play Why does radio suck? Because most stations play only the songs the record companies pay them to. And things are going to get worse... |
Salon.com
November 20, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Is Clear Channel playing a "shell game"? Critics of the radio-industry giant charge that it is skirting federal ownership rules with puppet competitors... |
Salon.com
June 25, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Will Congress tackle pay-for-play? Radio-station owners are shocked -- shocked! -- as the music industry's payola scandal widens. Record-label execs aren't buying it (and neither should you). |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Mark Schapiro |
The day the music died The merger of America's largest concert promoter with its largest radio station owner will mean Pringles, payola and more Top 40 from coast to coast. |
Salon.com
August 6, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
More waves in the radio business Is corporate behemoth Clear Channel behind the latest shakeup? |
Salon.com
March 27, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Washington tunes in Critics accuse Clear Channel of shady radio deals and nasty concert business. Now the government is starting to pay attention... |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
Todd Spencer |
Radio killed the radio star Consolidation has resulted in 10,000 layoffs, the demise of a beloved trade magazine, and a decline in programming quality. But industry execs are fat and happy. |
Salon.com
June 25, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Is Clear Channel selling hit singles? Insiders suggest that the broadcasting giant gave an obscure singer major airplay to promote its pricey new market-research program. |
Salon.com
June 28, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
One big happy channel? The Telecommunications Reform Act handed over control of the radio airwaves to a chosen few. Will TV be next? |
Salon.com
April 3, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Fighting pay-for-play Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola... |
Salon.com
July 24, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Payola City In the wild world of urban radio, money buys hits -- and nobody asks questions... |
Salon.com
June 5, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
The "Bootylicious" gambit Can a hot new single from Destiny's Child help Columbia Records crack the indie promoters' control of pop radio? |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Brendan I. Koerner |
Why Things Suck: Radio The FM band between 92.1 and 107.9, where commercial stations reign, is mostly a desert of robo-DJs and pop pabulum. |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Tom Lowry |
Antenna Adjustment Clear Channel is pulling apart its empire as it scrambles to compete in a changed media world. |
Reason
December 2004
Jesse Walker |
Liberal Demographic Clear Channel turns left: American broadcasting is a government-protected cartel, not a free market. But even a distorted market needs consumers, and if an underserved group of listeners is big enough, someone will notice them. |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Record companies: Save us from ourselves! With payola up but profits down, labels are wondering if paying $100 million to middlemen "fixers" is still a swell business idea... |
Salon.com
August 7, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
The empire strikes back As the music industry's "pay-for-play" scandal deepens, the big five record labels try to crush the expanding power of the dreaded indie promoters. |
Wired
March 2005
Charles C. Mann |
The Resurrection of Indie Radio FM never sounded so freaking good. How the coming digital boom - and Big Radio's bottom line - is driving the new golden age of multichannel, microniche broadcasting. |
Reason
January 2004
Ben Compaine |
Domination Fantasies Does Rupert Murdoch control the media? Does anyone? |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Last Big Radio Deal It may be all downhill for Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, and the rest of the broadcasting world's talk show stars. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2006
Amanda Tyler |
Radio One Fine-Tunes Strategy The broadcaster takes a first-quarter beating but still tops guidance. Investors, watch for the company to focus more on its Internet business and strengthen its station portfolio with more acquisitions. |
Wired
June 2000
Alex Markels |
Radio Active Up against the megastations in a battle for the airwaves, do-it-yourself DJs are deploying two potent weapons - 100-watt transmitters and the global reach of the Web. |
Mother Jones
August 1999
Alex Markels |
Low Power To The People Muted by the high cost of broadcast licenses, diverse voices may yet step up to the mike, thanks to a new FCC proposal |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Sirius XM and Pandora Better Watch Out Radio giant Clear Channel announces that the iHeartRadio customized stations that it rolled out two months ago will continue to be commercial-free through the end of March. |
New Architect
February 2003
Bret A. Fausett |
Radio, Radio Why not let the webcasters play? |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Does Clear Channel Have a Shot at Pandora and Sirius XM? Clear Channel takes a viral -- and vital -- shot at entrenched radio darlings with its iHeartRadio app. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2006
Adrian Rush |
XM: The Sounds of Salesmen? Clear Channel's insistence on XM ads is a reminder of why traditional radio is in decline. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Willie D. Jones |
Low Power to the People A South Carolina city is the latest battleground for low-watt community radio. |
Reason
November 2008
Jesse Walker |
Beyond the Fairness Doctrine Barack Obama says he wouldn't reintroduce the Federal Communications Commission's most notorious speech-squashing regulation. But there are more mundane reasons to fear the next FCC. |
Popular Mechanics
September 16, 2008
Glenn Derene |
Is the Music Industry Trying to Kill Modern Internet Radio? Why the creator of Pandora might have to shut down and whether Apple or Microsoft will have to bail out the Web's favorite personalized music service, even as they unveil their own. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Tom Lowry |
From Vanilla To Full Metal Racket Clear Channel is racing into the Digital Age with an array of high-def niche channels. |
Salon.com
June 6, 2000
Damien Cave |
Radio roadkill Will Net car radios squash traditional broadcasters flat? |
Job Journal
January 18, 2009
Janet White |
Get the Job by Having It Traditional job hunting is all about the process of getting hired, but a job-search expert suggests a more transcendent approach: Get the job of your dreams by thinking, speaking and acting as if you already have it. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Glenn Zorpette |
It's the Stupidity, Stupid What the demotion of classical station WQXR to 600 watts means for civilization |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Clear Channel Is Anything But Radio giant Clear Channel has been heading for a buyout by private-equity firms for nearly a year. Amid a mounting credit crunch, there's rampant skepticism that the deal will even get done. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Clear Sailing for Clear Channel After months of wrangling, it looks like Clear Channel's as good as gone, as it's buyout by private equity firms finally seems to be happening. |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011
Ronald Grover |
Making Public Radio a Little More Private A group of media investors, seeing a way to thrive without federal funds, is looking to acquire local stations in Southern California. |
The Motley Fool
March 8, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
XM Ads It Up Clear Channel wins a dispute requiring that its XM channels include advertising. Investors, take note. |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Mark Henricks |
Is This Thing On? Digital radio promises to revolutionize the world of broadcasting, exponentially increasing the number of stations and making radio a better advertising vehicle for entrepreneurs trying to reach small niche markets. |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2009
Seth Porges |
In Defense of FM Radio on MP3 Players Yes, Apple has pushed me back into FM radio. |
The Motley Fool
February 27, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Clear Channel's Witch Hunt A broadcaster rocks the boat. Can it survive the waves? |
PC Magazine
May 2, 2008
Brian Heater |
Radio 2.0 Although many people are still tied to terrestrial radio, a new era is on the horizon. Wi-Fi radio lets you listen to Internet stations on any Wi-Fi-enabled device, not just your laptop. |
PC World
April 19, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Web Radio Goes Silent in Legal Crossfire Broadcast stations suspend Webcasting while caught between union battle and copyright fights... |
Inc.
May 1, 2010
Darren Dahl |
Business for Sale: A New Jersey TV Station A low-power station that broadcasts lots of high school sports and town hall meetings is on the market for $2.5 million. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2011
Brad Stone |
Michael Robertson Bucks the Music Industry Again The San Diego entrepreneur's latest: DAR.fm, a digital audio recorder that downloads songs from radio. |
PC Magazine
March 14, 2007
Dan Evans |
Tune in to Digital Radio Digital broadcasting and higher-definition signals are revolutionizing television. Can they do the same for another traditionally analog medium -- the radio? |
