Abstract
In the past eight years the multinational, multimedia conglomerate Clear Channel has come to exemplify what opponents of media deregulation predicted would happen as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Before 1996, Clear Channel was merely an obscure regional player in radio and TV. Today, on the strength of $22 billion in acquisitions, the company is an international powerhouse that dominates the radio, concert and live theater industries, and is a major owner of TV stations. Clear Channel has a long history with Bush family politics, exclusively promoting a conservative agenda, and regularly engaging in partisan politics. Still, the company is somewhat unique among its peers because it has quickly developed a near‐uniform reputation as a bad actor and has drawn comparisons to Wal‐Mart because of the way it victimizes workers, competitors, communities, and consumers. The company is overwhelmingly nonunion, and actively seeks to undermine work and employment standards for its employees. Clear Channel presents a huge organizing challenge to unions, because left unchecked, many of its worst cost‐cutting practices threaten to become the industry standard.
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