Tom Brokaw on MTP just gave plug to "Clear Channel" said....he used to

[KoKo]

listen to a station out of New Orleans when he was 17 that played Chuck Berry. This was in answer to Russert asking if Tom Browkaw would "Duck Walk" like Dick Gephardt is going to do tonight on some TV show.

Browkaw immediately says that Chuck Berry was on a "Clear Channel Station out New Orleans when he was 17.

How much was he paid for that? Just pop in "Clear Channel" and we'll give you and your lovely wife a nice $50,000 check? Or, how about a new wing on your house in Idaho?

For those who don't know: The stations that were playing Chuck Berry in New Orleans when Brokaw was 17 were little independent "Rhythm and Blues" stations that one had to make a great effort to find on those old radios with static.

If anyone has information that "Clear Channel" was running "R&B" stations out of New Orleans back in the 1950's then I'll eat my words.

:puke: If this isn't "whore media" then I don't know what else to say!

[LTR]

Clear Channel started in the early 70's

Likely that they now own the station. They seem to own everything else.

[LTR]

1. Ooops

Double post. Delete this.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I heard that tooo.

I think he was either being Ironic, or CC paid him for the "product placement." CC didn't exist when Brokaw was growing up...in fact, if CC were around in the fifties, Rock and Roll never woulda happened.

[meegbear]

3. DUPE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1030243

[pinkpops]

4. That was an FCC designation, generic term.

I'm not sure if it is still in use. Clear channel stations were allowed to use very high AM power, 50,000 Watts. In order to not have interference, there were no other stations in the U.S allowed on that frequency, i.e. the channel was kept clear. There were few of these .. I know WOAI in San Antonio was one, WGN (?) in Nashville was one. You could receive them all over the US.

[KoKo]

5. Ah Ha: Here's the scoop on when Clear Channel was Founded!

Company founder and chief executive Lowry Mays declined to be interviewed for this story. But earlier this year, Mays told Fortune magazine: "We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers' products."
Clear Channel's critics say that attitude is the whole problem. Although the conglomerate's actions appear to have all been legal and it is not the only media company to have multiple stations in some markets, they say the company should be more sensitive to public opinion.
"There's a public responsibility to those who use these airwaves and if you just completely ignore it and say 'I'm just in it for the money and just in it for the shareholders,' the way their CEO has, you're going to get yourself in trouble and you're going to deserve it," said John Dunbar, director of the telecommunications project at the Center for Public Integrity.
The Mays family's involvement with the Republican party -- Lowry Mays has been a big financial backer of President Bush -- also has caused concern, despite Hogan's assertion that mixing politics with business is bad business, and that the company would never do it.
"If you have a politically active CEO who is of a particularly ideological bent you become worried that if they control entire markets, which Clear Channel does, that ideology might make into some of the coverage," Dunbar said.

Clear Channel Communications Inc.
Some facts about Clear Channel Communications Inc.
Headquarters: Sandpoint, Idaho.
History: Founded in 1972 in San Antonio, Texas, as the San Antonio Broadcasting Co. by investment banker Lowry Mays and a partner.
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Sep/09212003/business/94249.asp

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1030243