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- - - - - - - - - - - - The company owns nearly 1,200 radio stations and effectively controls the rock radio market. It also owns SFX Entertainment, the nation's dominant concert-venue owner and touring promoter. In the stories below, Boehlert has detailed the corporation's evolution under the aegis of Randy Michaels, the one-time shock jock who has turned the industry upside down with rampant cost-cutting and a good-ol'-boy approach to management. And in "Pay for Play" Boehlert details the new payola -- the complex arrangements under which the world's major record companies pay for virtually every rock song broadcast on commercial radio. Finally, there is a link to the Clear Channel Web site, on which you can easily find the stations the company operates in your town. - - - - - - - - - - - - Pay for play Fighting pay-for-play
Radio's big bully
Tough company
The "Bootylicious" gambit
One big happy channel?
What's wrong with the music biz?
The Clear Channel Web site
Payola City More waves in the radio business Suit: Clear Channel is an illegal monopoly Rock 'n' radio rumble |
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