Clear Channel owns Janet Jackson's tours along

[Dees]

with the network that airs Pish "oxy" Lushballs. This from Clearchannelsucks.org
I would like to learn more about this media giant. A friend tells me they are wing-nuts with an agenda.

[Atman]

1. Clear Channel sell out Chicago

Here is a good example of dastardly CC's deeds, and why media consolidation is NOT about better serving the public interest. Oh, and CLEAR CHANNEL SUCKS.

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Clear Channel sells out O'Hare in traffic reports
January 28, 2004
BY ROBERT FEDER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Mayor Daley may have obliterated Meigs Field last year, but now Clear Channel Radio wants to wipe out O'Hare Airport -- at least from all of its traffic reports.

In a move that has enraged and appalled staffers at all seven Clear Channel stations in Chicago, the company is ordering its on-air talent to stop reporting Kennedy Expy. travel times to O'Hare -- the landmark end point familiar to generations of motorists.

Thanks to a yearlong marketing agreement with Allstate Arena -- the first under Clear Channel's "traffic destination rights program" -- travel times are to be reported "from Downtown to the Allstate Arena" rather than to O'Hare, starting next week. The concert venue and sports facility, formerly known as the Rosemont Horizon, is located near O'Hare in northwest suburban Rosemont.

The edict came in a memo this week from Barry Butler, general sales manager for Clear Channel Traffic Chicago. Butler declined to say how much Allstate Arena was paying for the product placement plugs in traffic reports.

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In Chicago, Clear Channel owns the top four stations among listeners between the ages of 25 and 54 -- WVAZ-FM (102.7), WGCI-FM (107.5), WLIT-FM (93.9) and WNUA-FM (95.5). It also owns WKSC-FM (103.5), WGCI-AM (1390) and WRLL-AM (1690).

http://www.suntimes.com/output/feder/cst-fin-feder28.html

[buckeye1]

2. You Bet!

They will not play your music on radio if you don't let them manage your tour. They own many billboards and concert venues too. The agenda is greed and you had better get out of their way If you want to make a living in this world.