Snowden has no crediblity, and deserves no thanks.

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187. McCombs started Clear channel too?:

McCombs Energy: The History of McCombs Energy

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Red has a wide range of business interests including automobile dealerships, communications, ranching and real estate. Red began his career in the car business in 1950 and today Red McCombs Automotive consists of nine dealerships in San Antonio. Red was a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a global leader in the out-of-home advertising industry with radio and television stations and outdoor displays in 32 countries around the world. He owned the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL from the 1998 season through the 2004 season. Prior to his football team ownership, Red owned the Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs of the NBA. Koontz McCombs, headquartered in San Antonio, is a multi-faceted commercial real estate development, construction and brokerage firm established in 1997.

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Full entry is located here.

www.mccombsenergy.com/history.htm

Wikipedia: Clear Channel

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Programs that appear on many Clear Channel talk stations include the Glenn Beck Program—getting his talk show start at Clear Channel owned WFLA (AM) in Tampa, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Sean Hannity Show, America Now with Andy Dean and Coast to Coast AM, all of which are affiliated with Premiere Radio Networks in some fashion. The Mark Levin Show and The Dave Ramsey Show are non-Premiere shows who air on many (if not most) Clear Channel stations, as did The Savage Nation prior to its ending in September 2012. Limbaugh is almost universally carried on Clear Channel stations in markets where the company has a news talk station, with the exception of New York City: WOR has only recently come under ownership of Clear Channel and has not yet acquired Limbaugh from its current home, Cumulus Media-owned WABC. In markets where Clear Channel-owned news talk stations have not been profitable (such as Boston and Atlanta), Clear Channel has chosen to sell shows such as Limbaugh and Coast to Coast AM to their rivals and change the stations to other formats.

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Censorship

Clear Channel has been criticized for censoring opinions critical of George W. Bush and other Republicans. After Natalie Maines, the singer of the Dixie Chicks, told a London audience "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas", the band's radio airplay dropped precipitously. Afterwards, some Clear Channel stations removed The Dixie Chicks from their playlists without any noted repercussions from the company. Gail Austin, Clear Channel's director of programming said, "Out of respect for our troops, our city and our listeners, [we] have taken the Dixie Chicks off our playlists."[63] Clear Channel was accused of orchestrating the radio blacklist by such critics as Paul Krugman, however others claim some Clear Channel stations continued to play the band longer than some other companies.[64] This treatment of the Dixie Chicks is contrasted with Clear Channel's handling of Ted Nugent criticizing President Obama, a Democrat, wherein Nugent was offered air time to explain his side of the issue and blame the "liberal media" for trying to silence him.[65]

Clear Channel-owned KTVX was the only local television station that refused to air the paid political message of Cindy Sheehan against the war in Iraq.[66]

While a smaller percentage of Clear Channel's AM talk/music stations have been in the progressive talk format (featuring the now-cancelled Air America Radio network) and they have also been a media sponsor of Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.[67]

Use of paid actors posing as callers

Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners in order to provide shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, with planned content in the form of stories and opinions. The custom caller service provided by Premiere Radio assures its clients they won't hear the same actor's voice for at least two months in order to appear authentic to listeners who might otherwise catch on.[68]...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Channel_Communications