When I was 11, I scrawled “Maribeth” with a star over the “i” over anything I could get my hands on, homework and diary alike, and told all my friends that they had to write my name that way from now on. That lasted about a month. And now that Clear Channel has everyone’s attention at this sleepover, it’d like you all to know that its new name is iHeartMedia, okay? Who knows how long this will last. [More]
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By 8.22.08
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Northwest Airlines has pulled political billboards depicting Minneapolis being targeted by nuclear weapons from their terminal in the Minneapolis airport. We wonder why. [NYT]
Round 48: United Health Care vs Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company
By 5.29.08
This is Round 48 in our Worst Company in America contest, Countrywide vs Clear Channel!Here’s what readers said in previous rounds about why they hate these two companies…
Round 47: Countrywide vs Clear Channel
By 5.28.08
This is Round 47 in our Worst Company in America contest, Countrywide vs Clear Channel!Here’s what readers said in previous rounds about why they hate these two companies…
LA Has 4,000 Illegal Billboards, But City Looks On Helplessly
By 4.30.08
In 2002, LA banned any new billboards from going up in the city. Since then, an estimated four thousand have been put up by advertising companies who have ignored the law, which obviously the city’s billboard inspectors—”a tiny, and some say incredibly inept, group”—have never bothered to enforce.
Round 30: Clear Channel vs Toyota
By 4.24.08
This is Round 30 in our Worst Company in America contest, Clear Channel vs Toyota. Vote which sucks more, inside…
Round 11: Clear Channel vs Halliburton
By 3.5.07
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Round 6: AT&T/Cingluar/SBC vs Clear Channel
By 2.23.07
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Clear Channel Introduces One-Second Radio Ads
By 6.14.06
ClearChannel, the troglodytic overlord of commercial radio, is introducing a new format for radio advertising. These one-second radio ads will be called “Blinks.” Besides the obvious synaesthesia seizures the mixed metaphor will inevitably cause, some observers are less than pleased.
