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A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals. This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross-country or cross-continent radio service enforced through a series of treaties and statutory laws.
All domestic (United States) AM stations are classified as A, B, C, or D. [1]A (formerly I) — clear-channel stations — 10 kW to 50 kW, 24 hours.. Class A stations are only protected within a 750-mile (1,207-kilometer) radius of the transmitter site.
The following is a list of radio stations in the United States that are authorized to run 50 kW (50,000 watts) of power. This is the highest power authorized to any AM station in the United States. Power Legend: U=unlimited time, D=daytime power, N=nighttime power, CH= critical hours power.
The TV stations formerly owned by Clear Channel were sold to Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm, on April 23, 2007, with the deal closing in late November 2007. 185 radio stations were to have been sold to GoodRadio.TV LLC until the sale fell apart over financing., [1] [2] and another 177 stations have been sold to other entities ...
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. [2] It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc., formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008.
Category:Clear-channel radio stations. Appearance. Clear-channel stations — radio stations whose nighttime skywave signals have a high level of protection from interference. The main article for this category is Clear-channel station.
Clear Channel memorandum. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), the largest owner of radio stations in the United States, circulated an internal memorandum containing a list of songs [1] that program directors felt were "lyrically questionable" to play in the aftermath of the attacks. [2 ...
A major change was the provision that some clear channels were allocated to be used simultaneously by two stations — those maintaining sole use of a frequency were classified as Class I-A, while stations sharing a clear channel were known as Class I-B. [14] The Agreement assigned six Class I-A frequencies each to Mexico and Canada, and one to ...