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"Clear Channel Communications Inc. radio stations in Madison, Wis., and Milwaukee" are naming their newsrooms after corporate sponsors. "Starting in January, the news on WIBA-AM in Madison will deliver its report from the Amcore Bank News Center. About two years ago, WISN-AM in Milwaukee introduced listeners to its newscast from the PyraMax Bank News Center." The sponsorships are not exclusive and "will not impose strictures on the broadcasts." [15]
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CINCINNATI, March 28, 2003 – Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today announced its Broadcast Communications Division will supply 10 Clear Channel Communications radio stations with Harris FM analog transmitters including the Harris HT-20 transmitter and the Harris Z-CD transmitters. The Harris equipment will be used by Clear Channel stations in several medium- and small-media markets.
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Clear Channel's progress in 1997 set the tone for the company's course of development in the future. In April, the company acquired Eller Media Company, the oldest and largest billboard operator in the United States with more than 50,000 outdoor display faces in 15 major metropolitan markets. In June, the company acquired a 32 percent interest in Spanish-language broadcaster Heftel Broadcasting Corp., which carried Clear Channel into major metropolitan markets for the first time. "We're trying to consolidate the Spanish broadcasting industry itself," Mays explained, as he formulated plans for developing clusters of Spanish-language stations. In October, the company made its next definitive move, signing an agreement to purchase Universal Outdoor Inc., which added 88,000 outdoor display faces to Clear Channel's billboard holdings and made the company the second-largest outdoor advertiser in the country. On the heels of these forays into Spanish-language broadcasting and into billboards, Mays and the rest of Clear Channel's management scanned the horizon for future acquisition targets, intent on building their company into a formidable giant.
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In 2005, to promote the formatting switch of a Clear Channel station in Akron, Ohio from "sports talk to progressive talk," Clear Channel launched "Radio Free Ohio" in a guerrilla marketing campaign. The New York Times wrote, "To the average listener, Radio Free Ohio has all the earmarks of pirate radio. For weeks, it sounded as if amateurs had been bleeding their voices into the broadcasts of stations in Akron, Ohio, owned by Clear Channel, the corporate radio giant. At the Web site www.radiofreeohio.com, there was a manifesto about "corporate-controlled music playlists" that took potshots at several local Clear Channel stations." [11]
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In the early 2000s, Clear Channel settled a lawsuit with a Denver, Colorado concert promoter, Nobody In Particular Presents (NIPP). In the lawsuit, NIPP alleged that Clear Channel halted airplay on its local stations for (NIPP) clients, and that Clear Channel would not allow NIPP to publicize its concerts on the air. The lawsuit was settled in 2004 with no monetary consideration, but Clear Channel has new rules regarding local concert promotion in Denver.
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Clear Channel Radio is a division of Clear Channel Communications. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Clear Channel is a global leader in the Out of Home Advertising Industry with radio, television stations, outdoor displays and entertainment venues in 65 countries around the world.
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